Summary
Since 2006, Coffey subsidiary MSI has implemented USAID’s National Capacity Development program, or Tatweer (in Arabic), part of the United States Government’s program to “build the capacity of key Iraqi ministries to deliver core services.” USAID/Tatweer helps the Government of Iraq (GOI) rebuild its civil service as part of a general U.S. commitment to a strong, independent Iraqi government providing its people with food, medicine, power and a better future.
Tatweer advisors interact daily with their colleagues in the Presidency Council, the Prime Minister's Office and the Council of Ministers Secretariat, and the Ministries of Planning, Electricity, Oil, Agriculture, Municipalities & Public Works, Health, Water Resources, Justice, Migration and Human Rights in areas like procurement, strategic planning and project management.
The training component of USAID/Tatweer builds core skills in public administration across a broad spectrum of the national civil service, training over 80,000 civil servants. The project works with the GOI to link training to career development and to a larger effort to promote a transparent, merit-based civil service through close support to the Iraqi Federal Civil Service Commission.
USAID/Tatweer is building a sustainable training capacity within Iraq through its partners. Ministerial and national training centers, local institutions and a whole generation of trainers will offer civil servants new skills to match the new approaches adopted by their ministries. A culture of self-assessment and improvement has been adopted by key ministries acting as change agents for the whole of the Iraqi government. USAID/Tatweer concludes in January, 2011.
