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Fowarded from colleagues... How about a job "rebuilding Iraq"? -------------------------------------- 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 *************************************** 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 ========================================= THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT BRIEFING 05.01.03 ========================================= Brought to you by The Development Executive Group: http://www.DevelopmentEx.com <http://www.developmentex.com/> ====================================== 3. JOB OPPORTUNITY OF THE WEEK ====================================== 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 Please email [log in to unmask] and include IRAQ-Team leader in the SUBJECT -------------------------------- Urban Planning Department 5265 PPB UCLA School of Public Policy Los Angeles, CA 90095 (310) 206-4285 / fax (310) 206-5566 -------------------------------- (Off-campus office) 1221 Olancha Drive Los Angeles, CA 90065 (323) 254-6369 -------------------------------- Home Phone: (323) 340-8478 -------------------------------- Win XP