What works in Iraq
4 evaluated practices · All catalogues
Evidence snapshot for Iraq
Iraq has undertaken significant efforts in digital skills training and infrastructure restoration, with measurable but mixed results. Re:Coded's coding bootcamps have trained over 400 youth across the country with roughly 40% female participation, and 85% of job-seeking graduates from early cohorts secured technical roles. On political representation, women won 28.9% of Council of Representatives seats in 2021—the highest in Iraq's history—though with only 19 ministerial posts held by women between 2005 and 2021, suggesting descriptive gains have not converted into substantive power. Environmental restoration of the Mesopotamian Marshlands has reached an average re-inundation of 30–61% of historic extent depending on marsh unit, enabling an estimated 250,000 Marsh Arabs to return, but remains highly vulnerable to upstream damming and drought, with coverage falling to as little as 8% in recent dry years.
Drawn from: Re:Coded — Digital Skills Bootcamps for Displaced Youth · Iraq's Constitutional Quota for Women in the Council of Representatives · Mesopotamian Marshlands Restoration — Ahwar of Southern Iraq · AI-Assisted 'Smart Dam' Pilot for Water-Flow Monitoring on Iraq's Kufa and Al-Abbasiya Regulators
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +0.67
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +0.462
Documented learning +0.276
Demonstrated reach +0.265
Curator validation +0.25
Effectiveness +0.189
Sustainability +0.186
Impact on gender equality +0.173
Evaluated outcomes +0.163
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +0.118
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -0.099
Transferability / replicability -0.271
Scalability beyond pilot -0.356
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -0.405
Efficiency -0.517
Governance, certification & transferability -0.527
Transparency, fairness & accountability -0.547
Evidence of impact / measured public value -0.598
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -0.902
Top good practices here
Re:Coded — Digital Skills Bootcamps for Displaced Youth · 92
Iraq's Constitutional Quota for Women in the Council of Representatives · 74
Mesopotamian Marshlands Restoration — Ahwar of Southern Iraq · 40
AI-Assisted 'Smart Dam' Pilot for Water-Flow Monitoring on Iraq's Kufa and Al-Abbasiya Regulators · 7
Recommended to adopt or replicate
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