Sunday, 22 December / 2 January 2012 12:10
[Baghdad - where]
The advisory board discussed with the Committee on progress made in the donor-funded projects from the funds the World Bank and the United Nations to rebuild Iraq.
A statement of the Agency has received all of Iraq [where] the day that the Donor Committee of the International Fund for the reconstruction of Iraq, which was founded in 2004, held its twelfth meeting in the headquarters of the advisers in the Office of the Prime Minister chaired the meeting, the Danish ambassador in Iraq as a representative for the rest of the international donors to Iraq in the presence of Representative Special Secretary General of the United Nations, Martin Kobler and Deputy Special Representative Christine McNab, and the World Bank representative in Iraq, Mary Helen Baraknal and a number of ambassadors from member states of the Donor Committee, the Ministry of Planning, and a number of experts and advisers in the body.
He added: In the beginning of the meeting the representative of the secretary's secretary-general of the United Nations, Martin Kobler thanked the donors for their contribution in support of Iraq and to work with UN agencies active in Iraq, which reached number [20] the organization, and called to work according to the priorities of the Iraqi government and its involvement in reconstruction and development, stressing the importance of action at the political and development together to influence, one over the other, adding that "the priorities of the UN team in the current year is the youth and life and the environment.
The Chairman of the advisory board Thamer Abbas Ghadban, according to the statement thanked the UN and other donors for their generous contributions in support of Iraq, stressing that the Iraqi government continues the process of work and construction regardless of the political problems which we would hope that the way to the solution in the near future. Stressed Ghadhban that "The government continues to work with international organizations through committees formed for this purpose according to the co-financing mechanism established by the government to cost-sharing with international bodies.
The World Bank and the United Nations during the first session of the meeting a brief presentation on the progress made in implementation of projects and the overall financial commitments and spending for each of the two funds of the World Bank and the United Nations.
And "it was during the second session view and document the lessons learned from the Trust Fund Group, United Nations Development by PricewaterhouseCoopers Trhas Coopers, which was reviewed for strengths and weaknesses in the operations of the Fund from the administrative side as well as the impact of development, and recommending basic adopt working according to these mechanism to avoid taking into account the weaknesses found by the previous administration. "
It is worth mentioning that the international facility for reconstruction founded in 2004 as a multilateral tool deposited by the donor pledges at the Madrid Conference 2003 through the establishment of two funds of the United Nations and the World Bank, has overseen operations of the Fund to finalize the allocation of all the money the project implementation by the United Nations and the World Bank. End
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