Minister of Planning and discuss with the UN responsible implementation of local development project at a cost of 12 million euros financed by the European Union
7/6/2015
{Baghdad: Euphrates News} Search Planning Minister Salman Jumaili, in his office at the ministry with local development project manager development program of the UNDP UN Isabel Urby mechanisms for implementation of local development project in the second phase at a cost of 12 million euros financed by the European Union. He Jumaili in a statement the agency {Euphrates News} received a copy of it today that "this program is important for Iraq because it is designed to promote public policies and the provision of services and the development of planning and implementation at the provincial level process, adding that" the program would increase coordination between the decentralization of government and government level local in the provinces and increase community participation in local development in order to achieve good governance in Iraq. "
He added that "the objectives of this project to prepare sectoral strategies spatial and provide support to the institutions at the local level and the planning and implementation of improvements in the services that are in line with the priorities of local development needs type, noting that" the project will focus in the current phase on some provinces depending on the priorities and development needs, including areas liberated ".
The statement noted that "the meeting also dealt with to explain details of the project and its implementation mechanisms, explaining that this requires the formation of a number of committees and task forces his administration be shared by the advisers and the Ministry of Planning and the European Union with the possibility of the use of any ministry or on the other hand, according to business requirements."
"The project aims in its second phase to the local capacity to prepare local and urban strategies and the adoption of the principle of education through labor development as well as the development of distribution services and determine the priorities and needs in urban and rural areas and in alignment with the National Development Strategy and the Millennium Development Objectives, adding that" the preparation of this Plans will be for all the provinces, including Kurdistan region for 10 or 15 years in addition to the spatial distribution of GDP for the provinces study. "
For its part, expressed Isabel Urby according to the statement about the desire of UNDP United Nations to speed up the implementation of this important program, indicating that he "will be through the preparation of background schemes urban transport and make appropriate proposals to improve transport checks and to achieve sustainable development in the Iraqi provinces .. noting also that The program allows the possibility of cooperation with Iraqi universities for the development of local capacity and support academic institutions in the field of sustainable urban development in cooperation with well-known international universities will be selected as one of the competent Urban and Regional ".anthy planning universities
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