Countdown To Sovereighty

Restoring and upgrading normal rail services is a major step in improving the transportation infrastructure in Iraq.
Cross border freight service reopened in August with service to both Syria and Turkey. This traffic includes petroleum products, LP gas, grain and manufactured products.
The railway from the Port of Umm Qasr to Baghdad and various locations throughout Iraq […]

Iraqs coastline is a highly valuable resource for importing and exporting goods. The Iraqi Ministry of Transportation is working with the Coalition Provisional Authority and other international partners to maximize the effectiveness of Iraq?s ports at Umm Qasr and Khawr Az Zubayr in order to provide safe, modern and reliable facilities to boost trade and […]

The Iraqi Ministry of Health (MOH) is making great strides by structuring a comprehensive healthcare system that is financially sound and assures quality care that is accessible, affordable and available regardless of ethnicity, geographic origin, gender or religious affiliation; and a healthcare system that is self-sustaining for the future.
Pre-conflict
Saddam Hussein’s regime provided only $16 million […]

For more than a generation Saddam Hussein used power, like everything else in Iraq, as a weapon to punish those who opposed his regime. Due to an inequitable distribution of power by Saddam, most provinces suffered greatly. Compounding the problem, decades of operation without regular maintenance have severely hampered dependable electricity production. After the liberation […]

Before the 1990s, Iraq had one of the best education systems in the Middle East, with national primary school enrollment and high rates of literacy among women. A decade later, the tight control from the central government resulted in buildings that were poorly or never maintained, teachers that were poorly paid and ill-trained, and shortages […]

Under the former regime, average Iraqis were denied access to telephones. Only a select few of his most loyal followers were allowed have telephones in their homes or businesses. Iraq?s undeveloped communications technologies left the country unable to easily communicate on a national or global scale.
Pre-conflict
Iraqi Telephone and Posts Company had 833,000 active telephone […]

The information contained in this text was provided by the relevant Ministries and CPA Senior Advisors offices.

The security of Iraq and its people remain a top priority for the CPA and the Governing Council. Significant progress has been made in this area, with still more to come. Despite the fact that for so many years police were feared as political weapons of the former regime, public trust in the new Iraqi […]

CPA is working to increase women’s participation in government. The Governing Council’s March 1 agreement on the Transitional Administrative Law includes language calling for an election system to be designed with the goal of no less than 25 percent representation of women in the interim national assembly. CPA’s Office for Women’s Affairs has set up […]

CPA has supported various conferences that engage several political parties in creating common agendas and promote alliances that will strengthen the ability of these parties to participate in the forthcoming political process. The assistance encourages political parties to develop strategies to achieve their goals through the political transition, and to work for the establishment of […]