U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq - Provincial Reconstruction Teams

Muthanna

Muthanna is home to the ruins of Uruk, a once-bustling city which peaked in 2900 BC. A small house of worship still stands on the site relatively untouched by time or the harsh southern Iraqi wind and sun. This primarily Shi’a province, one of Iraq’s most economically-challenged, is home to approximately 700,000 people. Although Muthanna is agrarian, the agriculture industry here has been decimated by recent years of drought.

PRT Muthanna is headed by a senior State Department Foreign Officer who leads a team of experts in key areas including business and infrastructure development and rule of law. PRT Muthanna supports a wide range of activities focused around four main goals: developing a transparent and accountable provincial government; creating economic opportunity and social development; assisting the Provincial Council to improve its delivery of basic services; and enhancing respect for the rule of law and human rights. The PRT assists in the development of a provincial government able to better the lives of local citizens through efficient and transparent governance, which will in turn provide the foundation for economic growth and prosperity. The PRT also works to encourage and empower civil society organizations to help residents of Muthanna, especially women, improve their quality of life.

PRT Muthanna Holds English Teacher Training Program

April 27, 2010, JSS Soto - The Muthanna Provincial Reconstruction Team(PRT) hosted U.S. Embassy English Language Officer Christina Chandler and 24 English teachers from Muthanna province for a two-day teacher training program this week. The teachers' supervisors also came to observe and offer their support for additional training in the province.
Muthanna Women Painters Exhibit in DC

Artwork in a new exhibit in Washington has travelled a long way: from the imaginations of women in Iraq’s province of Muthanna, who originally had doubts about showing their work publicly. U.S. and Iraqi officials organized the artists to show their work publicly in 2009 for what was believed to be the first exhibit mounted by female artists in the province.
PRT Muthanna Visits USAID-Funded Sewing Class for Women

This sewing training project will train 150 women to sew clothes for girls and women.
PRT Muthanna Sponsors Literacy Classes for 240 Muthanna Women and Men

Layla Habib, the director of NGO A New Dawn for Iraqi Women, conceived the idea for the classes and asked the PRT for support.
PRT Muthanna Opens Al Jarbo'eya Family Park

The park was a shared cost project between the PRT, the Community Action Group (CAG) and the municipal government with over 70% contributed by the government.
Water Purifiers Bring Clean Drinking Water to Muthanna School Children

Due to a massive drought and dwindling water in the Euphrates River, schools in this city have had to get their drinking and hand-washing water from unclean and unhealthy water sources like canals and wells dug into dry riverbeds.
Small Business Development Center Creates Opportunity, with PRT Support

PRT Muthanna attended the Grand Opening of the Muthanna Chamber of Commerce Small Business Development Center (SBDC) on December 15th.
Girls at the Rumaytha Al Amal Deaf Institute Receiving New Hearing Aids

PRT Muthanna, along with its military partners from the 287th Sustainment Brigade, delivered 80 hearing aids.
PRT Muthanna Helps Fund Festival of Peace and Tolerance

The Festival of Peace and Tolerance is a program to engage youth in sports and other activities and supported by the Community Action Program, an NGO supported by a grant from the Muthanna PRT, and the Government of Iraq.
PRT Muthanna Remembers the Less Fortunate during Ramadan

Working together with the Mayors and City Councils of the respective cities, PRT Muthanna and its military colleagues handed out chickens and packets of dry goods .
Muthanna Continues Tradition of Journalist Engagement and Training

The Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT)for Muthanna Province continues to provide development assistance and training across all levels of society.
Muthanna PRT Joins Hands with Local Doctors

The Muthanna PRT together with Coalition physicians began a program to work with local Iraqi doctors to raise their basic medical skills.
PRT Muthanna Supports Small Businesses with Micro Grants

The Muthanna PRT and U.S. military partners collaborated to issue micro-grants to eight people who had participated in small business training.
PRT Muthanna Supports Local Female Artists

PRT Muthanna, in cooperation with a local NGO, helped female artists display their work for the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker and members of the Iraqi and international press.
Colors of Warka

The art project, entitled Colors of Warka, began in November 2008 with a meeting between the PRT and local artists.