Ministry of Planning (Iraq)
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| وزارة التخطيط العراقية | |
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| Formed | 1959 |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Iraq |
| Headquarters | Baghdad |
| Minister responsible |
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| Website | Official Website |
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| Constitution |
 Iraq portal |
The Ministry of Planning (Arabic: وزارة التخطيط العراقية)[1][2][3][4] is the cabinet-level ministry of the Iraqi government responsible for preparing and implementing as well as monitoring the progress of national development programmes for the purpose of achieving sustainable development. It also aims to improve the performance of state agencies by proposing work plans and providing them with the necessary statistical information, support the private sector, and establish a comprehensive national database in line with the government's vision of creating an information society.
Overview[edit]
The goal of the ministry is to prepare developmental policies, plans and programmes encompassing all aspects of economic and social development, and coordinate efforts. Ensuring the optimal investment of human and material resources as well as enhancing the quality of government performance and creating partnerships in both the public and private sectors, in order to achieve comprehensive sustainable development.
The ministry seeks to achieve these goals by adopting the values of objectivity, participation, neutrality, transparency, integration, collaboration and sustainability.[5]
Organizational structure[edit]
The ministry of composed of the following departments that execute its functions:
- Department of Economic and Financial Policy
- Department of Human Development
- Department of Regional and Local Development
- Department of Sector Development
- Department of State Investment Projects
- Department of International Collaboration
- Legal Department
- Department of Public Government Contracts
- Department of Administration and Finance
- Department of Information Technology
- Department for Poverty Alleviation Strategy
Establishments[edit]
- Central Statistical Organization
- Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control
- The National Center for Management Development and Information Technology
- The Iraqi Commission for Accreditation
Strategic Plan[edit]
2022-2025[edit]
In order to fulfil its vision of achieving comprehensive sustainable development, the ministry prepared a 3 year-long strategic plan in 2022, that is based on 7 principles. These are, participation; the collaboration of senior leadership, undersecretaries, heads of agencies and general managers in all stages of preparation and implementation, flexibility; responding to short-term and long-term challenges and overcoming them, realism; the plan is based on objective truths and realistic circumstances and time-frames, and the implementation of sound policies is guided by it, compatibility; the strategic plan of the ministry is in line with the general strategic vision of the state, implementation and application; standards and benchmarks are set in place in order to monitor the progress of the plan's implementation, rating and review; a report on the progress of the plan's implementation is presented and analysed annually and the results are utilized in preparing new strategic plans, delivery; the vision of the ministry is communicated effectively to all personnel in order to ensure correct understanding and implementation of the strategic plan, and receive feedback.[6]
Ministers of Planning[edit]
- Tal'at Al-Shaybani (1959-1963)
- Abdul Karim Al-Ali (1963-1964)
- Abdul Hassan Zalzala (1964-1966)
- Salman Abdul Razaq Al-Aswad (1966-1967)
- Mohammed Yaqub Al-Asadi (1967-1968)
- Jawad Hashim (1968-1971)
- Rasheed Al-Rifai (1971-1979)
- Taha Ibrahim Al-Abdullah (1979-1981)
- Thamer Razuqi Al-Shaykhali (1981-1982)
- Samal Majeed Faraj (1982-1993)
- Hassan Abdul Munim Khattab (1993-2003)
- Mohammed Ali Al-Hakim (2003-2004)
- Mehdi Al-Hafidh (2004-2005)
- Barham Salih (2005-2006)
- Ali Ghaleb Baban (2006-2011)
- Nassar Al-Rubayie (2011)
- Ali Yusuf Al-Shukri (2011-2014)
- Fuad Hussein (2014)
- Salman Al-Jamili (2014-2018)
- Nouri Sabah Al-Dulaymi (2018-2020)
- Khalid Battal Al-Najim (2020-2022)
- Mohammed Ali Tamim (2022-present)[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "Ministry of Planning: Achieving Sustainable Development in Iraq – rawabt center". rawabetcenter.com.
- ^ "Iraq's first conference for the preparation of the National Development Plan. Minister Al-Jumaily: A major step towards the SDGs [EN/AR/KU]". 30 April 2017.
- ^ "Iraqi governorates and the Ministry of Planning representatives meet in Erbil to discuss the National Strategic Urban Development Framework".
- ^ http://www.rudaw.net/arabic/middleeast/iraq/130720176 [bare URL]
- ^ "الرؤية - الرسالة - القيم المؤسسية". Ministry of Planning.
- ^ "خصائص الخطة الاستراتيجية لوزارة التخطيط (2022-2025)". Ministry of Planning.
- ^ "Ministers". Ministry of Planning.
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