A one-year intervention to enhance the governance capacities of Kurdish municipalities in Iraq and Syria, and thus foster a better management of territories and local realities, thanks to the strengthening of the direct dialogue between Italian and Kurdish civil society, and through the interlocution and shared planning between the respective municipalities.
This is the aim of the project Support for Kurdish Municipalities in North-East Syria and the Iraqi Kurdistan Area: to increase skills and know-how in the different areas concerning the management of public services.
From civil protection and education to waste collection and sustainable development.
These themes will be the focus of training courses and study visits, following which micro-projects will be implemented to strengthen public services in the identified municipalities.
At least 5 territorial meetings are planned to be held in Iraq and the same number in Syria, as well as at least 2 meetings to be held in Italy, which will aim to foster the exchange of information between representatives of Italian municipalities and representatives of Kurdish-Syrian and Kurdish-Iraqi municipalities.
Three meetings will then be organised in Iraqi Kurdistan between experts in the field, in order to define a detailed work plan for the implementation of training cycles.
Governance, decentralisation, local capacity building: these are some of the topics that will be addressed during the meetings.
But also environment and sustainable development, social and health services, gender policies, education, social inclusion and emergency management.
