04-01-2013
Sponsored by the Minister of Planning, Prof. Ali Yousef Al-Shukri, and cooperation with the UNDP to the United Nations (UNDP) Office of the Iraq. The Ministry held a deliberative workshop in the headquarters of the Ministry of Planning in order to diagnose developmental challenges to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and sustainable beyond 2015 and the presence of two undersecretaries of the ministry and senior agent of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and senior agent of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education and members of the committee. As well as the former Minister of the planning, Dr. Mahdi Al-Hafiz, and members of the House of Representatives and civil society organizations.
At the outset of the workshop, which was held in preparation for the participation of Iraq in the Arab Forum to be held in next April in the Jordanian capital Amman. The Minister of Planning word saying. In light which is our ministry adopted of the directions to follow the achievements on the road to achieving the Millennium Development Goals either through the implementation of statistical field surveys and preparation of extensive studies ... or through what has raised and endorsed in the Council of Ministers, most notably the formation of (cell achieve the Millennium Development Goals), which join us in This seminar gentlemen members. It was agreed with the United Nations Development Program / Office Iraq develop our national not to follow the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals 2015 only but in the formulation of a national vision for post-tarry goals in the system a new cycle expected from formulating development goals based on hearing voices peoples has always been development find in People very development and goal from here has been agreed with Mr. Peter Batchler / Director of the Office of Iraq to the United Nations to organize a series of seminars in Iraq covering the areas of Iraq (South, Central and Kurdistan) has implemented the first activity in the city of Basra, with the broad participation of local governments, academic institutions and civil society organizations Civil crystallize perceptions of the people of this region to the existing challenges in the areas relevant to the welfare of people and development and empowerment.
The Minister added that “In this nice day we open the symposium second with a good local governments, academia, and civil society organizations in the provinces of Salahuddin, Wasit, Anbar, Baghdad and in the presence of distinguished representatives of international organizations in order to continue the dialogue that extends from the data first symposium of the provinces South hopefully continue these efforts to set up third symposium to include the provinces of Kurdistan three The data seminars three will be an important stepping stone expected to formulate national priorities to ensure achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for 2015 and what is expected adopted after those goals beyond that year provided within post delegation National Arab Forum for post-Millennium Development Goals the 2015 organized by the United Nations Development Program in the Jordanian capital Amman in the presence of high-level delegations from Arab countries.
The Minister continued, we hope your participation to the work and meetings of this session and ask your images based on an extrapolation of the current development situation in your governorate and challenges facing this development in order to crystallize group events and activities that we believe along with the outputs of the other two seminars will be wide initiative in the Arab region.
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