Capacity Building

January 6-10, 2008.   A joint Procurement, Financial Management, and Disbursement Workshop was held in Amman from January 6-10, 2008, as part of the Iraq Public Procurement System Reform Project financed under the Iraq Trust Fund-- Capacity Building II project and in coordination with the Iraqi Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation – Office of Government Public Contract Policy. (Additional Background Information)

June 18-19, 2007. Joint Iraq- Jordan independent external auditors’ capacity building workshop. Iraq-Jordan External Auditors’ Capacity Building Workshop. The World Bank launched a regional auditor's capacity strengthening program on June 18-19, 2007. The seminar aimed to : (i) increase efficiency in the selection of independent auditors; and (ii) improve quality of the audit reports. The targeted audience included auditors involved in Bank-financed operations in Jordan and Iraq as well as potential auditors. (Additional Background Information)

November 12-13, 2006. The World Bank wraps up its first Iraq Business Community Procurement Workshop. The seminar,financed as part of the ITF-2nd Capacity Building project, targeted exclusively local Iraqi firms. (Additional Background Information)

A seminar took place in Baghdad at the National Center for Consultancy and Management Development within the Iraqi Ministry of Planning and development Cooperation (MOPDC). The workshop was designed to build the capacity of Iraqi officials in procurement and project management, being part of the on-going “training of trainers” program financed by the ITF Capacity Building II project. About forty Iraqi officials were trained, coming from fifteen institutions including a dozen of ministries, the Supreme Audit Board, the Central Bank and NGOs.

Payroll and Human resources management capacity building (April-June 2005)

Amman, 13-20 May, 2005– Two training sessions have been delivered to Iraqi civil servants as part of the World Bank’s effort to assist Iraq in putting together a reform program for payroll and Human resources management.

Designated by the government of Iraq through the Ministry of Finance (MoF), the participants came from Baghdad, Basra and Kirkuk, working both in the MoF and five other ministries including the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Oil.

This group of civil servants was described as “one of the most representative and wide-ranging yet to receive training from the World Bank in any single capacity-building event”. So far, the Iraqi trainees report a high degree of appreciation of the methods and techniques used during the workshops.

In the upcoming June 8-14 period, one member of each of the Ministry/Governorate groupings is scheduled to come back to Amman in order to present the results of the on-the-ground process mapping that has been ongoing since the conclusion of the training events.

Implemented by the World Bank through the WB Iraq Trust Fund, the Capacity Building Project II finances technical assistance to help policy makers elaborate a strategic action plan for payroll reform in the entire Iraqi civil service, including basic requirements for human resource management in the country. To achieve this, capacity building in internal consulting, process mapping and payroll analysis have been provided to a representative cross-section of Iraqi civil servants to enable them to undertake the analysis work.