Iraq Weekly Program Highlights
CIPE and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) co-sponsored a training
program on “Monitoring and Evaluation” from July 20-24 in Arbil. Over 28 participants,
including CIPE and USIP partners, attended the event. A total of eight CIPE
partners, including executive directors and board directors of think tanks
and business associations from across Iraq, participated. During the training,
participants attended intensive theoretical and interactive sessions and were
exposed to project monitoring and evaluation, association governance, and reporting.
Background and Overview
CIPE’s goal in Iraq is to help business leaders and other civil society groups build an institutional foundation for economic growth and democratic stability. CIPE’s on-the-ground approach is unique because it empowers Iraqi reformers and creates the local capacity to rebuild the country.
CIPE puts an emphasis on economic development in addition to political reconstruction, because strong democracies require functioning markets.
Engaging the private sector in reconstruction has proven to be a successful strategy for CIPE in other post-conflict countries such as Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Serbia.
Local presence and timely response are also crucial to success in post-conflict reconstruction. CIPE opened its Baghdad office in October 2003. Since then, CIPE has reached out to more than 50,000 Iraqi businessmen and women through its network of 40 business associations and chambers of commerce. CIPE continues to work with more than 30 political parties, dozens of economic journalists, universities, and other civil society groups all over Iraq.
CIPE puts an emphasis on economic development in addition
to political reconstruction, because strong democracies
require functioning markets.
Engaging the private sector in reconstruction has proven
to be a successful strategy for CIPE in other post-conflict
countries such as Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Serbia.
Local presence and timely response are also crucial to
success in post-conflict reconstruction. CIPE opened
its Baghdad office in October 2003. Since then, CIPE
has reached out to more than 50,000 Iraqi businessmen
and women through its network of 40 business associations
and chambers of commerce. CIPE continues to work
with more than 30 political parties, dozens of economic
journalists, universities, and other civil society
groups all over Iraq.
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