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Mrs. Pascale Warda met officials of the GIZ (German Organization for Development) for a training workshop on decentralization and the distribution of power

Mrs. Pascale Warda met officials of the GIZ (German Organization for Development) for a training workshop on decentralization and the distribution of power
  • Mrs. Warda, during her intervention during the workshop calls for a civilizational understanding that balances the applications of power and public administration in favor of partnership
  • Chairwoman of Hammurabi Human Rights Organization talks in the intervention about her experience when she took over the portfolio of the Ministry of Migration and Displaced
  • Mrs. Warda: Decentralization and the distribution of power is a basis for building a modern civil state and a basis for genuine democracy and ending corruption in all its forms

Mrs. Pascale Warda chairwoman of Hammurabi Human Rights Organization HHRO, former minister of Migration and Displaced, member of Iraqi Women's Network, clarified that the importance of distributing the authorities to guarantee and protect the rights of all citizens and common responsibility to achieve the required balance of rights and duties pointing out that the danger remains in the face of the proper civil construction of the state if there are abuses of people rights and legitimate demands, and refrain from involving everyone in the responsibilities of construction.

In an intervention on 20/9/2018 during her participation in a workshop organized by the German GIZ organization in Erbil Mrs. Warda pointed out the importance of distributing the authorities and adopting a decentralized system, and that this issue is of importance and the pitfalls of the public administrations lie in their neglect of the subject Decentralization, which is the key to the integration of all departments and institutions in the development and administrative work, and fighting the negative bureaucracy that undermine the rights of citizens and those of the characteristics of governance and good authority because everyone feels they are partners and have responsibilities, and not to run the state the tendency dictates and rigid orders, the need for the field to have an opinion on any work or operational projects, and be aware of what is required and that is one of the features of decentralized administration.

Mrs. Pascale Warda expressed her pleasure at the presence of a group of State officials in this workshop, as this would take into account the assessment of realistic perceptions on the method of governance and the use of techniques and to correct the concept of authority, which some officials still hold domineering and superfluous orders while the modern state requires partnership and exchange of views and listening to the requirements of reality and deliberation on the issues at hand.

Mrs. Warda referred to her personal experience when she was assigned the portfolio of the Ministry of Migration and Displaced in the Council of Ministers headed by Dr. Ayad Allawi, confirming that she received the ministry without any budget or specialized logistics base that can be relied upon to carry out the responsibilities assigned to the ministry and It was nationally and morally required that this ministry take an important role in safeguarding the rights of displaced Iraqi citizens and refugees inside and outside Iraq, as the circumstance that was going through Iraq was difficult in which many manifestations of violence and violations and rapid transformations , therefore work in the Ministry of Migration and Displaced requested  full capacity alert and not leave any issue without basis of action , movement and follow-up with the participation of all, consultation and field follow-up , monitoring failures ,treating and correct errors before the aggravation and evaluation of staff efforts and this is the basis for the success of the ministerial action.

Mrs. Pascale Warda explained that without the continuous growth of the staff and charging the defaulters, it will not be possible to move ahead with respect for the democratic system of government and not being developed, because Iraq is still unclear and unstable on a system that describes itself because of the succession of systems and traditions in terms of the unknown, is it the conservative style as in the time of kingdom or it is a system of socialism as in the time of the Republic and towards the end of the rule of the Baath party.

It is therefore necessary to build a new administration in line with the principles of democracy in the exercise of the distribution of power through institutions and the state of its young democracy and required to develop in a significant economy.