Programs

Since May 2003, Italian interventions in Iraq mainly aimed at developing and democratically reconstruct Iraqi institutions in order to return the Iraqi population the possibility to manage their own administration bodies. Italian actions covered three main fields:

• Support in the reconstruction of Iraqi institutions;
• Immediate interventions aimed at facing the most urgent necessities of the Iraqi populations;
• Support the development of an infrastructural platform aimed at helping new Iraq to overcome the lack of facilities which had been burdening the Country since 1980s.

116 projects involving institutions, associations, Italian and Iraqi companies were undertaken. "L'Italia per l'Iraq" is this - and much more than this. Activities are being continued and intensified, in agreement with the Iraqi institutions and thanks to a coordination granted by the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs through a special "Task Force Iraq" led by the General Management Board for Mediterranean and Middle-East Countries, which relies on the collaboration with consultants in Nassiriya and Erbil.