📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2017.4046.3
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
3A00 Near and Middle East 2nd
Contact person:
Jochen Zimmermann jochen.zimmermann@giz.de
Partner countries:
Iraq
SUMMARY
Goals:
Access to ICT-related qualifications for young people in Iraq has improved
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Ministry of Planning
Financier:
not available
PROJECT VALUE
Overall project:
23 300 000 euros
Current project:
23 300 000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
not available
PREDECESSOR PROJECTS
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECTS
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
10/14/2000 - 09/30/2023
Current project:
11/01/2017 - 09/30/2023
OTHER STAKEHOLDERS
not available
CONTACT
project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Participatory Development and Good Governance:
The project is not geared towards PD/GG or cannot (yet) be classified
Protection of the environment and resources, ecological sustainability
Project not aimed at environmental/resource protection or not (yet) to be marked
Gender Equality
Project has a proven positive impact on gender equality
poverty orientation
not available
CRS KEY
Vocational education
EVALUATION
Central project evaluation - summary. ICT - Prospects for a modern youth in Iraq
Central project evaluation - executive summary. ICT - Perspectives for the modern youth in Iraq
Central project evaluation - at a glance. ICT - Prospects for a modern youth in Iraq
Central project evaluation. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - Perspectives for the modern youth in Iraq. evaluation report
Central project evaluation - at a glance. ICT - Perspectives for the modern youth in Iraq
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Iraq's population is one of the youngest in the world. Almost two-thirds of all Iraqis are under the age of 25, many of whom are internally displaced persons in their own country or refugees from neighboring countries. What they all have in common is that they have hardly any employment prospects; every fifth of them is unemployed.
There are fewer and fewer employment opportunities in the traditional sectors of the Iraqi economy, the oil industry and the public sector. Although oil production accounts for 99 percent of Iraqi government revenues, only one percent of all workers in the country work for it. More than half of the working population is employed in the public sector, which, however, does not offer any long-term prospects with falling government revenues due to the falling oil price. The private sector, on the other hand, has hardly been developed to date.
Young Iraqis are increasingly interested in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a possible field of employment. The basic requirements in this area are comparatively good: there is mobile Internet access in broadband quality almost nationwide, which allows m
