Fowarded from colleagues...


How about a job "rebuilding Iraq"?
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My friend Goetz Wolff, from UCLA and the LA County Federation of Labor,
sent me this incredible job description (below), seeking a "team leader"
to help rebuild Iraq!  Sponsored by the US Agency for Int'l Development
(AID), and carried out by a private company called PADCO (
<http://www.padcoinc.com)> http://www.padcoinc.com), AID actually has
the audacity to call it the Iraq Community Action Program -- the same
name given the anti-poverty program in the US during the 60s. The job
description says that the program "will promote diverse and
representative citizen participation in and among impoverished
communities throughout Iraq, and will identify and address critical
reconstruction and development needs." As Goetz noted: "So, there you
have it.  A whole new opportunity for economic development specialists:
Attack and disrupt a country, take over the country, and then "repair
the country."  Perhaps various poverty areas in the U.S. should have
someone claim that they have  "weapons of mass destruction" and then
they could get some serious economic development assistance as well." 
 
This would be funny if it wasn't so tragic!

Peter
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Peter Dreier 
E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics 
Director, Urban & Environmental Policy Program 
Occidental College 
Urban & Environmental Policy Institute 
1600 Campus Road 
Los Angeles, CA 90041 
Phone: (323) 259-2913 
Fax: (323) 259-2734 

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great
moral crisis, maintain their neutrality" -- Dante

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THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT BRIEFING 
05.01.03 
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3. JOB OPPORTUNITY OF THE WEEK 
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Team Leader, Iraq Community Action Program

PADCO is looking for a Team leader who is a Economic Revitalization
Expert for a USAID funded project in IRAQ: Iraq Community Action
Program. We are the sub-contracter to IRD on this proposal and we would
be working in the rural development and Economic Revitaliztion areas of
this project. CAP (Community Action Program) will promote diverse and
representative citizen participation in and among impoverished
communities throughout Iraq, and will identify and address critical
reconstruction and development needs. The program will facilitate the
rapid dispersal of USAID resources to 250 communities, and engage
citizens in processes vital for effective community/local government
partnership. CAP will reach and directly benefit over 5 million Iraqis.

PADCO will be involved in income and employment generating activities,
particularly in agribusiness, small-scale industry, local trade or
service activities, and employment generation for at-risk youth.
Programs could support agriculture or food processing activities,
re-opening small-scale industrial enterprises such as a furniture or
shoe factory, re-opening shops and service businesses or investment in
home or cottage industries. 

Scope of Work for the Economic Revitalization program:

Training and employment for youth and demobilized soldiers 
Encouraging local business to work with communities to develop economic
projects that build linkages between divided groups and regions and
employ at risk-populations 
On farm irrigation projects 
Small horticultural and greenhouse projects 
Food processing facilities 
Canning facilities 
Tanning and leather works 
Agribusiness information and information centers 
Development of agriculture cooperatives 
Shoe or textile industry 
Small metal works 
Tire re-conditioning 
Business skills training 
Business planning and related support services 
Formation and strengthening of business associations 
Trades training/job skills training 
Public works employment 
Agricultural inputs

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