DMI has participated, on Saturday 10th December 2011, to the Iraq National Conference on Justice for Children. The conference took place in Erbil (KRG), with the support of the UNICEF. Our experts have presented a summary of the preliminary findings of an assessment, conducted at the request of UNICEF, of the Iraqi way to handle children in contact with the law. The assessment is based on a survey of about 150 respondents through ad hoc questionnaires including open questions. The survey covers all manners of stakeholders, including Civil Society.
The presentation has been used to structure the ensuing discussions in the strategic planning workshops, which aimed at identifying priority recommendations for reform of the system.
The workshops have gathered about a hundred iraqi institutional actors of Juvenile justice from Central Iraq and from KRG: Ministries of Internal Affairs, of Justice, of Labour and Social Affairs, of Education, of Health,as well as judges and directors of detention centres.
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Ms Hilde Johnson has been appointed by UN Secretary-General as her Special Representative, and Head of the newly created United Nations Mission In South Sudan (UNMISS; res. 1996-2011), to consolidate peace and security, and to help strengthening the capacity of the Government to govern effectively and democratically and establish good relations with its neighbours.
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DMI to carry out a new project in Kazakhstan
Service contract "Civil Service Reform in Kazakhstan" 01/11/2012
Donor: European Commission - Europeaid
Duration: 01/2012 - 01/2016
Partners: WYG, INCOM, ENA, LSE, Cambridge, DBV Academie
Description: The technical assistance is to facilitate the formation of professional state machinery that is result-oriented and capable of implementing the long-term state development priorities:
- To support to the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Civil Service Affairs ("ACSA") while implementing the Concept on a new civil service model (the "Concept") and developing correspondent legislative and other legal regulatory acts.;
- To improve the institutional capacities of the ACSA, the National Centre for Civil Service Staff Management (SMC) and HR services of the state bodies in order to enhance the efficiency of the staff management system, the quality of labour management and organization, the state bodies' decision-making processes and procedures, as well as to assess the efficiency of the state bodies' work in various directions;
- To strengthen the academic and scientific capacities of the Academy for Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (APA) to ensure that the system for training and professional development of civil servants and other public employees functions effectively
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On November 12, 2011, the Leaders of the nine Trans-Pacific Partnership countries – Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States – announced the achievement of the broad outlines of an ambitious, 21st-century Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement that will enhance trade and investment among the TPP partner countries, promote innovation, economic growth and development, and support the creation and retention of jobs.
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The umbrella NGO CONCORD launched its second report "Spotlight on EU Policy Coherence for Development" on Monday 7 November in Brussels. Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is not only a provision in the Lisbon Treaty, but also an obligation for EU policy-makers to ensure the effective implementation of Human Rights and greater progress towards eradicating poverty in developing countries. A number of recommendations to redress coherence are proposed to EU institutions, which are accountable for the proper implementation of the Lisbon Treaty.
(see coherence.concordeurope.org)
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The EU will re-prioritise its delivery of aid to developing countries to ensure maximum impact on poverty reduction. On 13th of October, 2011, EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, presented the 'Agenda for Change' of EU Development policy and a new policy for EU budget support. These communications set out a more strategic EU approach to reducing poverty, including through a more targeted allocation of funding.
Future EU spending should concentrate on sectors which are key for long-term and inclusive growth, target countries that are in the greatest need of external support and where aid can make a difference.
EU aid should focus on sectors setting the foundations for inclusive and sustainable growth: good governance, agriculture and food security and clean energy.
A significant share of EU aid is delivered in the form of budget support: financial transfers to government budgets in developing countries, coupled with policy dialogue, performance assessment and capacity building. -
European Commission has released the Annual Report 2011 on the European Union's development and external assistance policies and their implementation in 2010
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A team of Iraqi penitentiary administration and Shura representatives has completed a study tour in France, alternating visits of premises and working session with French and international experts in penitentiary system reform.
