Provinces Use Rebuilding Money in Iraq

[chrisleslie]

Well, since it looks like I'll be part of a PRT starting in fall 2009 (just got my offer from NEA this morning), I'm all ears as well!

From everything I've read and people I've corresponded with, working at the local level is really the only way to go in a place like Iraq. But with that comes the attendant problems of synching strategies and methods (to an extent).

In terms of building up local capacity as an exit strategy, that certainly makes sense!

(More on this later -- I need to pull myself away from the warm glow of the laptop and start packing - my packout's tomorrow morning. Only two weeks left in KL, a month in NC, and then off to the MFO in the Sinai for a year...)

[ali_ababa]

It's good that the provinces are becoming more active. For too long Baghdad has dictated everything and power should devolve from the capital.

Thanks for the great info.