Baghdad

Provincial Reconstruction Team-Baghdad (PRT-Baghdad) strengthens the capacity of local government and national service institutions to provide essential services, maintain security, promote economic opportunity, advance civil society, and engender respect for the rule of law in Baghdad province. PRT-Baghdad, in close partnership with its military colleagues, covers both urban and rural areas in a province that is home to over 7,000,000 people – twenty-five percent of Iraq’s population.

Headed by a Senior Foreign Service officer, the team includes representatives from the State Department, USDA, the Department of Justice, and USAID, along with a strong team of expatriate and local Iraqi subject matter experts in rule of law, governance, economics and health. The province’s large population presents challenges in education, health, the delivery of essential services, and with the judicial system. Partnering with the ministries, provincial and local government, NGOs, universities, women’s groups, and civic associations, PRT-Baghdad works to meet these challenges with a variety of targeted, sustainable programs.

Outside the national capital area, Baghdad’s six more rural qadhas are served by the PRT’s five satellite offices. These teams work closely with their U.S. Army partners to address the needs of the population by: revitalizing a once-robust agricultural sector in a bid to reduce local unemployment as a driver of instability; strengthening the education system by training teachers and leading adult literacy programs; improving the health care system by overseeing mobile health care units and training rural health-care providers; and assisting with long-term planning in the development of solid waste management plans and the revitalization of the industrial sector.

Baghdad's Institute of Fine Arts

Continuing on a variety of successful projects partnering with Baghdad's Institute of Fine Arts, PRT-Baghdad worked with noted Iraqi sculptors to reestablish the long-defunct woodworking section of the Institute.
Training Program for 20 Women in Mada'in qadha, in Southern Baghdad

The project, the second of its kind in Baghdad, provided widows and disadvantaged women the skills needed to preserve vegetables at their peak season for use year-round as well as canning starter kits and supplies.
PRT Baghdad Unveils Iraqi Modern Art Red List

PRT- Baghdad has partnered with dozens of NGOs on projects important both Iraq and America under the terms of the Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA).
PRT Baghdad helps U.S. companies get down to business in Baghdad.

Over 100 firms participated in the 3rd Annual Baghdad Business to Business Exposition, with products and services exhibited from more than 20 countries.
Video technology opens the college of agriculture to the outside world

Baghdad University’s College of Agriculture is moving quickly into the 21st century, thanks in part to Provincial Reconstruction Team – Baghdad. The College recently received new equipment that will allow students, professors and administrators to hold meetings with colleagues around the world, using video teleconferencing technology.
New Literacy Program Begins in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - During a ceremony at AL-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 23, representatives from the Provincial Reconstruction Teams, United States Forces – Iraq, and senior officials from the Government of Iraq gathered to celebrate the beginning of the Arabic Literacy Program.
Old techniques get new life in Baghdad – PRT-Baghdad helps Iraqi women acquire skills to preserve produce through canning

Baghdad -- In the dusty village of Um al-Abeed, in Eastern Baghdad province, dozens of women picked at large platters of tomatoes, okra and other produce. They hadn’t gathered to prepare a community feast, but rather to learn how to preserve the bounty from their family farms.
Iraqi farm demonstrates success

On an 86 acre farm in Tarmiyah, peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers are thriving, even in the arid heat of summer in Iraq. But this bumper crop of vegetables isn’t the farm’s biggest success. More important is what other farmers are learning there.
U.S. Media Spotlight PRT-Baghdad Telemedicine Program

A program promoted by PRT-Baghdad (Taji) is helping Iraqi doctors improve the care they provide for their patients, and now it is drawing some attention in the American press.
Children Working To Build A Better Future For Iraq -- PRT Baghdad, Local Groups Support 4-H Clubs in Baghdad

Some Iraqi children are taking steps toward a brighter future, thanks their membership in a new group in Baghdad - the Al Amal 4-H Club. The club, supported by Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team (ePRT) Baghdad-South, is already having a big impact in their lives.
Catalog Show Supports Economic Development In Baghdad

Bringing businesses together – that is the goal of a catalog show June 20th at the Rashid Hotel. PRT-Baghdad, in cooperation with the US Embassy and the British firm Upper Quartile, is hosting the event, which will bring dozens of Iraqi business leaders together.
Provincial Reconstruction Team – Baghdad Donates Arabic Literacy Program To Schools Across Baghdad

Thousands of young children across Baghdad will have new books to read in school, thanks to the Provincial Reconstruction Team – Baghdad (PRT-B), which has donated ten 40 foot shipping containers full of sets of “My Arabic Library” sets - enough to reach more than four hundred schools across the Province.
PRT-Baghdad Supports Iraqi Literacy Initiative; Nearly Thirty Trainers Graduate from US-Led Program

Twenty-six Iraqi teachers are now ready to help launch a major Arabic literacy program in Baghdad Province, after they completed training with instructors from an American university this week. PRT-Baghdad helped fund and organize the training, which was held at Baghdad University in May and June.
PRT Transition: Embedded PRT Baghdad North To Close, Become Forward Office For PRT-Baghdad

On July 26, 2010, embedded PRT (ePRT) Baghdad North held a farewell ceremony to mark its closure as a Provincial Reconstruction Team.
PRT Baghdad Leads Soil Testing Training for Iraqi Agriculture Experts

On Sunday April 18, Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) agriculture advisors joined to lead training on new soil testing kits being donated to the Ministry of Agriculture, the College of Agriculture and the NGO Green Mada’in Association for the Agricultural Development (GMAAD).
PRT Baghdad Create a USG Presence at Baghdad Annual Flower Show

Iraqi VIPs and ordinary citizens streamed through the Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) display at the Baghdad Amanat’s 2nd Annual Flower Show on Thursday. The event, staged by the Amin to bring a sense of peace and normalcy to the city, drew several international participants
PRT-Baghdad hosts video conference with University of Baghdad and Texas State University

The Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) hosted the first of a series of digital video conferences (DVCs) between six University of Baghdad English professors and three Texas State University literature professors on March 30, 2010.
ePRT Baghdad North Checks-In On USG-Funded Adult Literacy Program

The Baghdad Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team North (ePRT North) is supporting an adult literacy program in Sab Al Bor, one of six similar centers in the ePRT's area that helps teach women of all ages basic literacy skills, as well as simple mathematics.
PRT-Baghdad Holds Crime Scene Preservation Course for Iraqi Counterparts

The Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) hosted senior Iraqi firefighters in a first of its kind course on the importance of establishing a strong incident command and control during any emergency response, both to help coordinate their firefighters' work and to help preserve potential evidence at the scene of a suspicious fire or terrorist bombing.
PRT Baghdad Holds English Teaching Workshop

The Baghdad PRT, in conjunction with the English Language Office of the Embassy Public Affairs Section, sponsored a workshops for Iraqi elementary English teachers in Baghdad.