Contents Executive summary 3 INTRODUCTION 7 2.1. FMIS and the World implementation experience 7 2.2. Iraq Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) Implementation Experience (post 2003 period). 9 2.3. Lesson Learned 11 Government Enterprise Resource Planning (GERP) 12 3.1. GERP High Level Overview 13 3.2. Ira
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Washington DC, August 05, 2021—The World Bank Group has renewed its commitment to the continued support of Iraq, approving a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) to form the basis of its 2022–2026 partnership with the country. The framework lays out the main development goals the World Bank Group aims to support in Iraq and proposes a series of strategic interventions to hel
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BAGHDAD — Eighteen years after the U.S. invasion that deposed Saddam Hussein, Iraq offers a long, painful story about the limits of American power. But Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi will visit the White House this month to urge President Biden to keep trying — by maintaining a U.S. military commitment to a country that straddles the fault lines of the Middle East. Kadhim
Read MorePolitically sanctioned corruption and barriers to reform in Iraq. By Toby Dodge and Dr Renad Mansour
Politically sanctioned corruption and barriers to reform in Iraq. By Toby Dodge and Dr Renad Mansour This paper explores the pernicious effects of politically sanctioned corruption on governance in Iraq. This type of corruption is more consequential for the coherence of the state, and for its everyday functioning, than petty or personal corruption. It is the key barrier to r
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Geneva - More than 1.2 million Iraqis are still internally displaced persons (IDPs), despite military operations against the Islamic State organization (ISIS) ending nearly four years ago, a new Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor report said. Entitled “Exiled at Home”, the report documents the conditions of the internally displaced Iraqis on a humanitarian level. In add
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