Qué funciona en Irak

Iraq's evidence base shows progress in specific sectors alongside persistent challenges. [Re:Coded's digital skills bootcamps have trained over 400 youth across Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen, with 85% of job-seeking graduates from early cohorts securing technical roles][/practice/recoded-digital-skills-bootcamps-for-displaced-youth/], and [women's political representation reached 28.9% of parliamentary seats in 2021, with 57 winning outside quota mechanisms][/practice/iraqs-constitutional-quota-for-women-in-the-council-of-representatives/]. However, [the Mesopotamian Marshlands restoration—which brought an estimated 250,000 Marsh Arabs back to the region by 2020—remains fragile, with upstream damming and drought reducing wetland coverage to as little as 8% of historic extent during 2021–2025][/practice/mesopotamian-marshlands-restoration-ahwar-of-southern-iraq/]. A [small-scale AI pilot for water-flow monitoring at two regulators near Najaf was announced in 2025][/practice/ai-assisted-smart-dam-pilot-for-water-flow-monitoring-on-iraqs-kufa-and-al-abbasiya-regulators/], but carries no measured outcomes yet.