United States Agency for International Development
Iraq Reconsrtuction and Humanitarian Relief
Weekly Update #8, Fiscal Year (FY) 2004
November 18, 2003


This fact sheet highlights overall accomplishments and some weekly
activities from USAID's reconstruction efforts in Iraq.  For more
information on USAID's programs in Iraq please see:  www.usaid.gov/iraq

USAID assists the people of Iraq to reconstruct their country by working
within the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). USAID programs are
implemented in coordination with the United Nations, nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) and private sector partners.  The USAID Mission in
Iraq carries out programs in education, health care, food security,
infrastructure reconstruction, economic growth, community development
initiatives, local governance, and transition initiatives.

Program Descriptions and Updates

1. Restore Essential Infrastructure

Electricity -- objectives include: the emergency repair or rehabilitation
of power generation facilities and electrical grids. A team of engineers
from the Iraqi Electric Commission, USAID, Bechtel, and the Corps of
Engineers has been working since May to restore capacity to Iraq's power
system, which had been looted and was dilapidated from decades of neglect
and mismanagement.  Accomplishments to date:

- Power capacity in Iraq on October 6 peaked at 4,518 MW, surpassing the
pre-war level of 4,400 MW.

- Necessary long-term repairs and scheduled maintenance are being made
at generating plants throughout the country to build a sustainable power
grid.

- Electricity crews are repairing thermal and gas turbine units – an
essential piece for stable power generation as they increase efficiency,
prevent failures, and increase outputs.

- Ministry of Electricity and USAID partners crews have:

- Helped the Corps of Engineers put engineers back to work on the boilers
at the Doura

a. - Provided technical personnel at key power stations to assist the
Commission of Electricity.

b. - Installed a new turbine bearing at unit 3 of the Bayji Plant.


Highlights this week:

- Daily peak production has averaged 3,840 MW in November.

- For the renovation of Doura units 5 and 6, USAID partner Bechtel
negotiated a contract with Siemens to disassemble and inspect turbines and
supply outage materials. Disassembly began last week.

- Rehabilitation of Doura units 5 and 6 is well underway.  The building
is being cleaned, asbestos is being removed, and lights in the turbine
building are being replaced.

- As a result of downed lines, several generating plant units shut down.  
Most have been restored, including Mussayib units 1 and 4, Bayji thermal
units 1 and 4, and several units at Old Mullah Abdullah and New Mullah
Abdullah.

- The Ministry of Electricity approved a final schedule for the autumn
maintenance plan, which will roll plant units offline for upkeep and
improvements through spring.

- Planning for Bayji's scheduled maintenance outage is complete, and the
first unit will be turned off on December 1. The plant's five units will
be turned off one at a time, and the process is scheduled to be completed
in June.


Airports -- objectives include: providing reconstruction material and
personnel for the timely repair of damaged airport facilities; the
rehabilitation of airport terminals; the creation of systems to permit
humanitarian, international commercial and passenger flights and
reconstruction material and personnel; and preparation for the eventual
handover of airport operations to the Iraqi Airport Commission Authority.


Accomplishments to Date:

- Approximately 60 non-military flights per day arrive and depart
smoothly at Baghdad International Airport.

- Completed emergency infrastructure work at Baghdad International
Airport for civil air operations. Work included the repair of Terminal C
and administration offices, installation of three of the four "Rapidscan"
X ray machines in Terminal C, and installation of VSAT communications
systems and 6.5 megawatt power generators.

- Iraqi customs commenced operations in the Baghdad arrivals hall as of
October 21, 2003.

- Al Basrah International Airport is nearly ready for commercial
operations to begin.  Completed projects include runway, taxiway, and
apron striping, installing two baggage x-ray units, rehabilitating
toilets, passenger lounges, signs, and baggage carts, and installing VSAT
satellite communications.

- Evaluation of reconstruction requirements at Mosul Airport are
complete.


Highlights this week:

- Bechtel's rehabilitation work at Baghdad International Airport's
Terminal C will be completed by November 22. Skylink will manage the
operation of the terminal until the Iraqi airport authority takes over the
responsibility. The terminal has been open and processing flights since
October.

- Work on the rehabilitation of the airport fire house building is now
75 percent complete.


Bridges, Roads, and Railroads -- objectives include: the rehabilitation
and repair of damaged transportation systems focusing on the most
economically critical networks.


Accomplishments to Date:

- Demolition of irreparable sections of three key bridges (Khazir, Tikrit
and Al Mat) completed in preparation for reconstruction. These bridges
link Baghdad to major cities in the North as well as neighboring
countries.

- Al Mat Bridge: A key link on Highway 10, which carries over 3,000 trucks
daily on the main route between Baghdad and Jordan.

 Completed construction of a 1.5-kilometer, four-lane bypass for the
damaged bridge -- an essential bypass to transport humanitarian goods.

a. - Khazir Bridge: Critical to the flow of fuel and agricultural products
to the Northern Region.

b. - Tikrit Bridge: An important link for passengers and commerce over the
Tigris River between Tikrit and Tuz Khurmatu.

- Repairs on a floating bridge on the Tigris River in Al Kut are
complete, improving traffic for approximately 50,000 travelers a day.

- Work on railways is an integrated US-Iraqi effort; Iraqi Railway
Administration contributes equipment and labor while USAID contributes
project management, material and parts.

- Repairing 72 km of track from Umm Qasr to Shuiaba Junction, near
Basrah to ensure that grain shipments from the seaport to mills are not
jeopardized due to faulty track.

- Completed explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) of the rail line project
near Shuiaba Junction (Basrah governorate).


Seaport -- objectives include: port administration, hiring of port pilots
to guide ships up the channel, coordinating onward transport from the
seaport, and facilitating cargo-handling services such as warehousing,
shipment tracking, and storage.

Accomplishments to Date:

- Reopened to commercial traffic June 17; first passenger vessel test
completed July 16.

- The first bulk cargo grain ship to arrive at Umm Qasr, finished
unloading 52,000 tons of grain on November 14. The newly refurbished
grain-receiving facility moved the grain from the ship to dockside silos
without major problems in 14 days.

- Umm Qasr port resumed normal port operations.  In October, 27 ships
entered the port and were processed by the Port Authority, 84,844 metric
tons of food was unloaded from World Food Program ships (rice and sugar),
1800 containers were unloaded onto the port, 18 cargo ships were received,
and 46.5 metric tons of goods were unloaded from smaller vessels.

- Emergency wreck removal and dredging operations are completed,
allowing for all 21 berths to be available for deep-draft ships. Two Iraqi
dredgers will maintain the harbor.

- Completed renovation of grain-receiving facility, which can process up
to 600 metric tons of grain an hour.

- Port tariffs were applied on June 20, opening the way towards
financial sustainability for port operations.

- Generators have been installed, energizing all three 11-kV ring mains
and restoring power to most parts of the port.

- Work is complete on security fencing at the old and new ports and
grain facility.

- Containers and other types of cargoes are arriving.



Telecommunications -- objectives include: linking 21 cities by fiber optic
cable and preparing 1.2 million wired lines to be operational; repairing
the nation’s fiber optic network from north of Mosul, through Baghdad and
Nasiriyah to Umm Qasr by November 2003; and repairing the 2,000 km cable
to connect 20 cities to Baghdad.

Accomplishments to Date:

- Purchased tools, equipment, and parts to enable Iraqi engineers to
restore parts of the network.

- Audited 400 km of the fiber optic backbone, confirming that only two
of twelve fibers are active.

- Replacing 12 transportable exchange switches to connect 240,000
subscriber lines in Baghdad.

- The international satellite gateway system at Al Mamoun is ready for
service and integrated with the Al Mamoun switches.

- Training of Iraqi engineers on the new equipment has commenced.



2. Support Essential Health and Educationsubscribers. (Photo: Thomas
Hartwell)  Health -- objectives include: supporting a reformed Iraqi
Ministry of Health; delivering essential health services; funding
medicines and supplemental nutrients; establishing a rapid referral and
response system for the most serious cases; providing medical equipment
and supplies; training and recruiting health staff; providing health
education and information; and determining the specific needs of the
health sector and of vulnerable populations such as women and children.

Accomplishments to Date:

- Over 30 million doses of vaccines have been procured and distributed
by the Ministry of Health (MOH) since July, which was supported by USAID
and UNICEF.

- An estimated 3 million out of a total of 4.3 million Iraqi children
under the age of 5 have been vaccinated.

- 20 delivery rooms in hospitals and primary health care centers have
been rehabilitated serving 300,000 residents in Basrah.

- More than 100,000 pregnant, nursing mothers and malnourished children
under 5 years have received 2.5 kg of high protein biscuit supplementary
food rations.

- In An Najaf and Karbala', emergency health programs supporting 18
Primary Health Centers have been completed with over 92 midwives and 247
health promoters trained.


Highlights this week:

- Rehabilitation is underway on 46 primary care health clinics, and seven
clinics are complete.  Work is progressing on 19 clinics in Baghdad, one
in Arbil, 17 in Al Basrah, and nine in An Nasiriyah.

- Four of the finished clinics are in Mosul, two are in Arbil, and one is
in Kirkuk. A total of 65 clinics are scheduled to be rehabilitated by
Bechtel.

- To date, 1,610 people in eight villages in Maysan Governorate have
become educators on safe water practices. The initiative trained new
health educators, support staff, and 21 community educators during 36
training sessions. The ongoing training is part of a larger project to
educate the rural population on healthy water and sanitation and provide
them with safe water and sanitation facilities, an initiative implemented
by USAID partner International Medical Corps.

- Rehabilitation of the water and sewage systems at four Baghdad
hospitals -- Al Iksan, New Baghdad, Al Mustansiriyah, and Al Wasity -- is
now complete. Work is ongoing at six additional Baghdad hospitals. When
the project is complete, the 10 hospitals’ existing systems will have been
repaired and updated.  Each hospital will have a new elevated storage tank
large enough to ensure a three-day supply of water for patients. The
initiative is being implemented by USAID partner International Medical
Corps.

Education -- objectives include: increasing enrollment and improving the
quality of primary and secondary education, ensuring that classrooms have
sufficient materials, facilitating community involvement, training
teachers, implementing accelerated learning programs, and establishing
partnerships between U.S. and Iraqi colleges and universities.

Accomplishments to Date:

Schools throughout Iraq successfully reopened the first week in October.  
There are approximately 5.1 million enrolled school children in Iraq (3.6
million primary and 1.5 million secondary). After the conflict, attendance
of the enrolled students had dropped to 60%. It has now surpassed
pre-conflict levels.

- Rehabilitated more than 1,774 schools.

- Awarded 239 grants worth $3.6 million to rehabilitate schools and
education Directorate General offices across the country.

- Edited 48 math and science textbooks grades 1-12; 5.6 million books
have been printed.

- Delivered to date:

- To secondary schools: 99.7% of 1.5 million secondary student kits. 94%
of 28,964 student desks, 65% of 4,941 teacher desks, 88% of 13,987 teacher
chairs, 56% of 5,083 metal cabinets and 100% of 58,000 chalkboards.

a. - To primary schools: 50% of the 808,000 primary student kits; and 50%
of the 81,735 primary teacher kits.

b. - 78.8% of the 5.6 million revised text books have been delivered,
textbooks are currently being distributed to 13,000 schools.

- For the accelerated learning program, surveyed 4000 school students
from grades 1-8 and successfully registered 536 students (269 girls and
267 boys) for 650 slots in 5 pilot programs to be implemented in Baghdad,
Nasiriyah, Diwaniyah, Karbala' and Arbil.

- Trained 258 Master Trainers in Baghdad while concurrently developing a
country wide teacher and administration staff training program.

- Certified 195 teachers and administrators as master trainers on
November 16 in Baghdad, providing teachers and administrators with skills
that will create greater participation and critical thinking in students.
It also provides teachers with improved ways to teach and develop lesson
plans.

- Supporting capacity building at the Ministry level in the areas of
Education Management Information Systems, administration and finance,
teacher training and resource mobilization.

Four grants, worth over $16 million, have been awarded to U.S.  
universities in partnership with Iraqi institutions in cultural heritage,
environmental and agricultural research extension programs, water and
sanitation education, and legal education reform.

Highlights this week:

- Better public health, primary education, and civic action are being
brought together in a partnership between U.S. and Iraqi universities. The
University of Mosul and the Mississippi Consortium for International
Development, a U.S. university consortium, will partner to reduce child
illness and improve public health and sanitation through teacher training,
civic development, and NGO strengthening.  The Mississippi Consortium is
led by Jackson State University and includes Alcorn State University,
Mississippi Valley State University, and Tougaloo College. The $4.9
million grant to the consortium is part of the USAID financed University
Partnerships program.

- Two hundred Baghdad teachers and administrators opened a program on
November 8, a component of USAID’s assistance to the Ministry of
Education, in which they will extend new teaching methods to their
professional colleagues. The teaching methods concentrate on
student-centered learning and improved teaching techniques. The trainings
will be conducted nationwide.

- Every Baghdad public school will be eligible to receive a $750 grant
to improve its learning environment under a new Coalition Provisional
Authority program.

- Local school offices and parent organizations can use their grant to
paint buildings, repair sanitation and electrical systems, or purchase
school books or furniture.  The grants application requires a school
administrator, two teachers, and a minimum of four parents (representing
the community) to select appropriate projects.


Water and Sanitation -- objectives include: rehabilitating and repairing
essential water infrastructure to provide potable water and sanitation to
communities and improve irrigation.

Accomplishments to Date:

- Immediately after the war, USAID repaired over 1,700 critical breaks
in Baghdad's water network, significantly increasing Baghdad's water flow.

- At Baghdad's Saba Nissan water plant, repairs and new machinery will
add 225,000 cubic meters (40% increase in water supply to eastern Baghdad)
a day to the water supply by May 2004, benefiting 640,000 Baghdad
residents.

- Completed 98% of the ongoing restoration at the Safwan water pumping
station, on schedule to be completed in early November and will benefit
40,000 people.

Began rehabilitating the Sweet Water Canal that provides drinking water to
1.3 million residents of Basrah City. It is currently running at less than
half capacity.

Project will renovate the entire system including the canal, reservoirs,
and water treatment plants, restoring operation to full capacity and
significantly improving water pressure and flow to Al Basrah.

- All of Baghdad's sewage treatment plants will be repaired and running
at full capacity by October 2004, serving 3.8 million residents.

- Repairing the Diwaniyah and Karbala' sewage treatment plants, which
are currently discharging untreated waste into the Euphrates River, to
serve 200,000 residents.

- Rehabilitating An Najaf and Al Hillah sewage treatment plants to serve
194,000 residents.



3.  Expand Economic Opportunity

Economic Growth -- objectives include: currency conversion and monetary
data, state-owned enterprises, small businesses credits, commercial
legislation, a national employment program, a bank-to-bank payment system,
a financial management information system, tax policy and administration,
budget planning, insurance, and electricity reform.

Accomplishments to Date: 

- The Central Bank program to exchange new dinars for old began on
October 15, 2003 and will be completed by January 2004. This will unify
and strengthen Iraq's currency, a critical component for sustained
economic growth.

a. - Monetary authorities now influence the exchange by conducting a daily
auction in which banks exchange Iraqi dinars for U.S. dollars.

b. - Currently, 2.5 trillion new Iraqi dinars -- 57 percent of the goal of
4.36 trillion -- are in circulation. Four trillion new dinars -- 92
percent of the total -- have been received in country.

- Assisted the Central Bank to procure and manage a bank-to-bank payment
system that allows banks to conduct transactions and other business.
Eighty bank branches were part of the system as of late October. Basic
training has been provided to bank staff.

- Assisting CPA in managing a micro-lending program that is expected to
continue to expand through late 2003 and beyond.

- Providing a consultant to CPA to assist them in their efforts to
expand employment.  More than 20,000 jobs have been created through the
CPA-funded National Employment Program, a pilot public works program that
intends eventually to generate at least 100,000 new jobs.

- Reforming and updating commercial laws that would encourage private
sector participation, including foreign investment.

- Agriculture production and marketing is being coordinated with public
distribution systems used by the Ministry of Trade to distribute food
rations to 27 million Iraqis.

Highlights this week:

- The 100,000 Jobs program was launched in Mosul (Ninawa' Governorate)  
this weekend. The Minister of Public Works attended the press event at the
City Council.  The program, sponsored by the Coalition Provisional
Authority, is part of a nationwide effort for Iraqi employment.  USAID
will fund Ninawa' Directorate of Municipalities efforts, such as planting
trees, filling potholes, painting streets, and cleaning graffiti. To date,
3,600 jobs have been coordinated through municipality projects.

- USAID partner BearingPoint collected 263 tons of old currency from 23
banks on November 11, and delivered new currency to 14 banks.

Food Security -- objectives include: providing oversight support for the
country-wide public distribution system (PDS), which provides basic food
and non-food commodities to approximately 27 million people; participating
in the design of a monetary assistance program to replace the
commodity-based PDS in order to support local production and free-market
infrastructure, and promoting comprehensive agriculture reform to optimize
private participation in production and wholesale markets.

Accomplishments to Date:

- Funded and provided 494,000 MT of food to the UN/World Food Program
(WFP), to avoid hunger immediately after the war.

- Ongoing support and technical assistance to WFP and local Iraqi
authorities working in the Ministry of Trade and the Kurdish Food
Departments to ensure the smooth transition of PDS management tasks to the
Iraqi government.

- Ongoing support and technical assistance to WFP to help train local
authorities in all aspects of managing the PDS, particularly in the
northern three governorates.

- Awarded the Agriculture Reconstruction and Development for Iraq (ARDI)
contract to Development Alternatives, Inc.  The project will expand
agricultural productivity; rehabilitate the resource base; and restore the
capacity of small and medium agro-enterprises to produce, process, and
market agricultural goods and services.  Highlights this week:  Following
the WFP/CPA meetings in Amman, USAID is supporting CPA and WFP in
detailing WFP's continued assistance to the Ministry of Trade to
distribute food to the Iraqi people.  USAID is providing technical support
to CPA's establishment and management of a Coordination Center in Baghdad
that will assist the Ministry of Trade with managing former OFF programs.



4.  Improve Efficiency and Accountability of Government Local Government
-- objectives include: promote diverse and representative citizen
participation within and among communities throughout Iraq; strengthen the
management skills and capacity of local administrations, local interim
representative bodies, and civic institutions to improve the delivery of
essential municipal services;  promote effective advocacy and
participation of civil society organizations; and enhance leadership
skills.

Accomplishments to Date:

- In 17 of 18 governorates, more than 15 million people are engaging in
local policy discourse, either directly or through their representatives

- Established an interim structure of government to represent the
population in Baghdad and other major cities in Iraq. Neighborhood
councils now represent all of Baghdad's 88 neighborhoods and city
councils.  This governmental structure is being repeated in 15
governorates around the country, resulting in 200 neighborhood advisory
councils throughout the country.

- Awarded more than 1,060 rapid response grants totaling $50 million that
have increased Iraqi participation in local government decisions.

- Established a 25-member Babil Governorate Council.  The council includes
tribal leaders and individuals from professional, trade, and community
associations.

- Working with local governance service departments to plan, budget and
manage their resources, along with providing training on transparency and
accountability in the use of those resources.  For example, the team's
work with officials in Dhi Qar resulted in more efficient delivery of
public services to over 390,000 residents.

- The local governance team includes over 332 Iraqi staff, of which 147
are senior and mid-level professionals.

Highlights this week:

- Representatives from women's associations and human rights
associations in south-central Iraq met with Deputy U.S. Secretary of State
Richard Armitage when he visited the Fatima Zahra Women's Center in Al
Hillah (Babil Governorate) November 9.  The groups that met with the
Deputy Secretary are all being assisted by USAID grants, and the Women's
Center was rehabilitated under two USAID grants. Deputy Secretary Armitage
praised the efforts of the Iraqi men and women for promoting democratic
change through their work with these organizations and praised the
technical assistance offered by USAID.

- More than 70 professionals from around Iraq attended a four-day
workshop November 8-11 in Baghdad on best practices for excavating mass
graves and identifying remains. This was an important step in training
local experts to accurately assess forensic evidence for use by the
judicial system.

- More than 60 employees of the Maysan Finance Directorate, including
the director and his immediate staff, attended a budget and finance
seminar last week.

- An Iraqi basketball star from Kirkuk will head a multi-ethnic youth
basketball team formed in an effort to reduce ethnic tension among
Kirkuk's youth. The team includes Arabs, Kurds, and Turkmen and is
sponsored by USAID, which will also supply jerseys and equipment. The team
will play in a regional championship in Arbil and will continue to play
throughout Iraq, including in Ar Ramadi and Al Fallujah.

- In Kirkuk on November 10, twenty At Tamim Governorate Council members,
the governor, deputy governor, and three assistants attended a training
session on intergovernmental relations and council roles and
responsibilities. The training was well-received, and participants
requested additional sessions on strategic planning, council procedures,
and how the responsibilities of the governor's office differ from those of
the council. The training was provided by the Local Governance Team as
part of a similar program in six other Governorates.

- Fifteen Iraqis have been hired to support advisory council staff
members.  The new hires attended a preliminary training session to improve
their skills and ability to train council staff.

- More than 40 employees of the Karbala' Governorate Water Department
attended a three-hour training session on financial management on November
8. The presentation addressed basic accounting skills, performance
measurement, and citizen participation and was conducted by USAID's Local
Governance Program.


Community Action Program -- objectives include: the promotion of diverse,
representative citizen participation in and among communities to identify,
prioritize, and satisfy critical community needs.  CAP is implemented by
five U.S. NGOs with offices in nine major Iraqi cities.  Accomplishments
to Date:

- 321 Community Associations (CAs) of 400 targeted have been established
in 15 Governorates.

a. - The CAs, in partnership with the NGOs, have completed 322 projects
with 198 projects underway, totaling $11.2 million dollars with an
additional 284 projects currently in the pipeline for total commitments of
$19.6 million dollars.  Nearly 3.7 million people will directly benefit.

b. - Iraqis have contributed $3.6 million, which represents 18 percent of
the total project funding, to community projects. Contributions have
included labor, land, buildings, and other in-kind assistance.

c. - CHF has completed 60 projects directly benefiting more than a quarter
million residents in 54 communities. Activities include repairing roads,
cleaning up neighborhoods, and renovating schools and water, sanitation,
and medical facilities.

d. - ACDI/VOCA has completed 81 projects, including rehabilitating a youth
center in Al Riyad and repairing trash vehicles in Kirkuk.

e. - IRD has completed 55 projects. A marketplace that will serve 250,000
residents is being constructed, and crews are cleaning up medical waste
dumps and educating medical personnel on proper disposal methods.

f. - Mercy Corps has completed 16 projects and 39 more are underway,
including water, hospital, and school renovation.

g. - Save the Children has completed 84 projects and another 54 are
underway.  Projects have focused primarily on immediate community needs
such as sewage clean up, water treatment and distribution, health and
girls' access to education.

- Five U.S. NGOs concentrate on one region respectively:  ACDI/VOCA
(North), IRD (Baghdad), CHF (Southwest Central), Mercy Corps (Southeast
Central), and Save the Children (South).


Implementing Agency 
Partner 
Sector 
Regions 
Amount 


FY 2003-2004 
RECONSTRUCTION 

USAID/ANE 
Subtotal:   $1,536,845,064 

Abt Associates 
Health 
Countrywide 
$20,995,000 

AFCAP 
Logistics 
Countrywide 
$91,500,000 

Army Corps of Engineers 
Architecture and Engineering services 
Countrywide 
$10,000,000 

Bearing Point 
Economic Governance 
Countrywide 
$39,000,000 

Bechtel National 
Airports, buildings, emergency communications, power, railroads, roads
  and bridges, Umm Qasr seaport, water and sanitation
Countrywide 
$1,029,833,859 

Community Action Program 
Development in impoverished communities 
Countrywide 
$70,000,000 

DAI 
Marshlands 
Countrywide 
$4,000,000 

DAI 
Agriculture 
Countrywide 
$5,000,000 

Fed Source 
Personnel Support 
Countrywide 
$24,110 

IRG 
Reconstruction Support 
Countrywide 
$18,286,094 

RTI 
Local Governance 
Countrywide 
$104,611,000 

CAII 
Education 
Countrywide 
$37,853,000 

UNICEF 
Health, Water, and Sanitation 
Countrywide 
$28,000,000 

UNICEF 
Education 
Countrywide 
$7,000,000 

UNESCO 
Textbook Printing and Distribution: Math and Science 
Countrywide 
$10,000,000 

WHO 
Strengthen Health System 
Countrywide 
$10,000,000 

SSA 
Port Management 
Umm Qasr 
$14,318,985 

SkyLink 
Airport Management 
Baghdad, Al Basrah, Mosul  
$17,500,000 

MSI 
Monitoring and Evaluation 
Countrywide 
$5,500,000 

University Partners 
Consortium led by the Research Foundation of the State University of New
  York (SUNY) at Stony Brook which includes Columbia University, Boston
  University and Oxford University (England), University of Hawaii, DePaul
  University College of Law and the International Institute of Higher
  Studies in Criminal Sciences in Siracusa, Italy; and Jackson State
  University and the Mississippi Consortium for International Development
Baghdad University, Al Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad, Mosul
  University, Mosul University's College of Agriculture and Forestry in
  Hamam al-Alil, and Basrah University
$13,364,866 

Yankee Group 
Telecoms Planning 
Countrywide 
$58,150 


EMERGENCY RELIEF 
USAID/OFDA 
$82,348,040

Administrative 
Administrative Costs 
Countrywide 
$6,788,947 

AirServ 
Logistics 
Countrywide 
$5,309,876 

ARC 
Capacity building, Disaster support 
Al Basrah 
$537,746 

The Cuny Center 
Research studies 
Countrywide 
$40,260 

GOAL 
Coordination, Nutrition 
Al Muthanna'
$1,507,900 

International Dispensary Association 
Health
Countrywide 
$1,284,972 

InterAction 
Coordination 
Kuwait City 
$92,860 

IOM 
IDP programs 
Countrywide 
$5,000,000 

Logistics 
Commodities and DART support 
Countrywide 
$12,005,804 

UNICEF 
Health, nutrition, water/sanitation 
Countrywide
$4,000,000 

UN OCHA 
Coordination and Information 
Countrywide 
$1,200,000 

USAID Amman 
Support for emergency water activities 
Countrywide 
$500,000 

WFP 
Logistics and pre-positioning of food 
Countrywide 
$5,000,000 

IMC 
Food Security, Health, Nutrition, Water/Sanitation, Capacity building 
Countrywide 
$8,202,900 

IRC 
Health, Water/Sanitation 
Countrywide 
$4,998,685 

Mercy Corps 
Health, Non-Food Items, Shelter, Water/Sanitation 
Countrywide 
$5,000,000 

SCF/US 
Food Security, Health, Shelter, Nutrition, Non-Food Items, 
  Water/Sanitation, NGO Consortium 
Countrywide 
$6,883,131 

World Vision 
Health, Logistics, Non-Food Items, Water/Sanitation 
Countrywide 
$4,994,959 

CARE 
Quick-impact projects, Water/Sanitation, Health, Blankets 
Countrywide 
$9,000,000 



USAID/FFP 
$425,571,000

WFP 
Operations 
Countrywide 
$45,000,000 

WFP 
Emerson Trust - 81,500 MT
Countrywide 
$40,337,000 

WFP 
P.L. 480 Title II emergency food commodities - 163,820 MT 
Countrywide 
$140,234,000 

WFP 
Regional Purchase – 330,000 MT 
Countrywide 
$200,000,000 



STATE/PRM 
$38,935,691 

UNHCR 
Emergency assistance 
Countrywide 
$21,000,000 

ICRC 
Emergency assistance 
Countrywide 
$10,000,000 

IFRC 
Emergency assistance 
Countrywide 
$3,000,000 

IOM 
TCN – transportation assistance 
Countrywide 
$3,630,000 

International Catholic Migration Commission 
Humanitarian assistance to Iraqi refugees 
Lebanon and Jordan 
$1,305,691 



USAID/OTI
$67,320,267

Administrative 
Administrative Costs 
Countrywide 
$2,422,378 

IOM 
Iraq Transition Initiative 
Countrywide 
$10,587,595 

DAI 
Iraq Transition Initiative 
Countrywide 
$44,162,094 

Internews 
Media 
Countrywide 
$160,359 

Radio SAWA 
Media 
Countrywide 
$400,000 

Spa War 
Inter-Ministry Communications 
Countrywide 
$8,703,001 


TOTAL USAID ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ IN FY 2003/2004          $2,112,084,371
TOTAL STATE ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ IN FY 2003                  $38,935,691
Total STATE/USAID Assistance to Iraq in FY 2003/2004    $2,151,020,062 


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