Executive Branch
- Department of Defense (Pentagon)
- Quarterly reports fro the Pentagon on progress in Iraq
Reports to Congress are submitted pursuant to the section entitled “Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq” of House Conference Report 109-72 accompanying H.R. 1268, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005, Public Law 109-13
- National Security Council Victory Plan for Iraq
- Other releases from DOD- inc. list of contractors, Iraq reports on soldier health etc.
- Central Command (CENTCOM, Doha, Qatar)
- Multi-National Force Iraq - "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
Website of US commanded, UN legitimated, counter-insurgency force in Iraq.
"In partnership with the Iraqi Government, MNF-I conducts full-spectrum counter-insurgency operations to isolate and neutralize former regime extremists and foreign terrorists, and organizes, trains, and equips Iraqi security forces in order to create a security environment that permits the completion of the UNSCR 1546 process on schedule."
- Multi-National Security Transition Command
"The MNSTC-I mission is to assist the Iraqi Government in the development, organization, training, equipping, and sustainment of Iraqi Security Forces capable of defeating terrorism and providing a stable environment in which representative government, individual freedom, the rule of law, and free market economy can evolve and which, in time, will contribute to regional security in the Gulf Region."
- US Central Command Casualty Reports
- Multi-National Force Iraq - "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
- US National Guard
- Quarterly reports fro the Pentagon on progress in Iraq
- Department Of State
- Iraq Weekly Status Report
A valuable, if slanted, compilation of quantitative data, produced weekly by the US State Department. Grouped into the categories of security, democratisation, service provision, economy, law, international engagement, and strategic communications.
- Transcript of US State Department briefing on budget support (28 Feb 2006)
Briefing given by James F. Jeffrey, Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq, on Assistance to Iraq in the FY 2006 Supplemental Budget and FY 2007 Budget Request.
- Question from Matthew Taylor (18 Sept 2003)
- Department Of State Fact Sheets on Iraq
- State Department Section 2207 Reports
State Department produced quarterly reports on the use of Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds.
- US-Iraqpolicy email list
Email list carrying statements, press conferences and news on Iraq from the US State Department, as well as from the Pentagon, the White House, and other parts of the government. Anyone can subscribe, and the list is publicly archived.
- Section 1227 Reports
These quarterly reports describe US military, diplomatic, political, and economic activities in Iraq. They take their name from the law which requires the State Department to produce them - Section 1227 (c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006. This law also dictates in detail the topics which must be covered.
Reports are available for:
- United States Mission to the United Nations
- USAID (Agency for International Development)
The USAID website (in English and Arabic) includes detailed information on progress towards humanitarian and infrastructure development
- 'A year in Iraq' (Apr 2004)
Slick 28-page guide to USAID activities in Iraq between April 2003 and April 2004. A mixture of photos, human interest reports, summaries of successful projects, and some useful information.
- Weekly updates on USAID achievements
- 'A year in Iraq' (Apr 2004)
- Iraq Weekly Status Report
- White House
- 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq' (30 Nov 2005)
This "document articulates the broad strategy the President set forth in 2003 and provides an update on our progress as well as the challenges remaining". There also is a pdf version of the document
- National Security Council
- Office of Management and the Budget
- 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq' (30 Nov 2005)
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Department of Commerce
- Business guide for Iraq
Aimed at US corporations, this guide lists existing and future opportunities for trading in Iraq. Includes information on company law, and on contracts funded by the US and Iraqi governments.
- Iraq investment and reconstruction task force (IIRTF)
Section of the US Department of Commerce, which "assists companies pursuing reconstruction and other business opportunities in Iraq"
- Business guide for Iraq
- Department of the Judiciary
- Department of the Treasury
- The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
(formerly the Coalition Provisional Authority Office of the Inspector General). In charge of auditing and overseeing US reconstruction work, in particular "focused on providing value to the Administration, the Congress, and the American people".
- Latest SIGIR Audit Reports (29 Oct 2006)
Latest auditing of Report various programs in Iraq, including in October the Provincial Reconstruction Team, Weapons Provided by the U.S. Department of Defense Using the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund, Iraqi Security Forces: Review of Plans to Implement Logistics Capabilities , Management of the Iraqi Interim Government Fund andand Interim Audit Report on Inappropriate Use of Proprietary Data Markings by the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) Contractor, as well as a Review of Administrative Task Orders for Iraq Reconstruction Contracts.
A New York Times summary of the latter can be found here
- Latest SIGIR Testimonies (28 Sept 2006)
Testimonies to the United States House Committee on Government Reform Oversight Hearing on Iraq Reconstruction and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security on reconstruction contracting in Iraq, a review of reconstruction in Iraq to the House Committee on International Relations and a testimony to the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Iraq Stabilization and Reconstruction. Also included is a reconstruction fact sheet.
In particular, notes the striking fall in the perfomance of Iraqi utilities since the pre-war period, despite massive US investment, with virtually all indicators being lower than before the fall of Saddam. A summary can be found in the New York Times, while more information can be found in the SIGIR section.
- January SIGIR Audit Reports (26 Jan 2006)
On the 26th January, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction released a report entitled The Challenges Faced in Carrying Out Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund Projects. Just prior to this, on the 23rd January, four others were released, including reports on the Rapid Regional Response Programs in South-Central Iraq, the transfer of IRRF funded assests to the Iraqi government, the managemnet of the Commaders Response Program, and the Mansuria Electrical Reconstuction Project
The report on the IRRF projects looks at the scope and effect of the 'reconstruction gap' - the difference between the number of projects that the US originally proposed to build, and the total built. Findings included that only 49 out of a proposed 136 projects in the water and sanitation. The main explanation was a massive increase in security costs (a reallocation of $5.6bn from the original $18.4bn). A summary can be found in the New York Times
The investigation into the management by the CPA of the Rapid Regional Response Programs, total value about $88million, discovers a massive amount of overcharging, manipulation to avoid review, unauthorised payments, and a severe lack of appropriate acounting and documentation. The report recommends that money wasted through over-payments should be recovered. It also containst stories of millions of reconstruction dollars stuffed casually into footlockers and filing cabinets, an American soldier in the Philippines who gambled away cash belonging to Iraq, and three Iraqis who plunged to their deaths in a rebuilt hospital elevator that had been improperly certified as safe. Moreover, it reports that there were no detailed, overt preparations for the reconstruction of Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 invasion "to avoid the impression that the US government had already decided on [military] intervention". A brief review can be found in the New York Times
The report on the asset transfers looks at the transfer of the projects funded by the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund, and managed by the US (namely the Gulf Region Division (GRD) or the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Project Contracting Office (PCO)), to the Iraqi government in 2006-2007. Notes that while procedures for transfer on a local level are fairly well set out, there is a lack of central policy and procedure for transferral of information to the central Iraqi ministires. The report also puts a figure on the 'reconstruction gap'
The Commanders Response Program used $718million for militrary commanders to respond to local urgent humanitarian and reconstruction requirements. The audit found a lack of co-ordination, and errors in the monitoring of how funds were spent. The Mansuria Electrical Reconstruction Project reportlooked into an abadoned project to build a power station by USAID and IRRF, with a total estimated cost of about $70million.
- Management of Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funding Programs: Cost-to-Complete Estimate Reporting (24 Oct 2005)
Report looking at whether IRRF programs are providing comprehensive cost-to-complete estimates, essential for sustainability. Finds that there have been a number of failings and accurate estimates do not currently exist.
- Managing Sustainment for Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund Projects (24 Oct 2005)
Report looking at the capacity of the Iraqi government to continue IRRF projects after US funding/management expires. Worryingly concludes "there is a growing recognition that the Iraqi Government is not yet prepared to take over the near- or long-term management or funding of the infrastructure developed through IRRF projects.... the amounts budgeted by the Iraqi government do not appear to be sufficient to ensure the near- and long-term sustainment of completed reconstruction projects".
- Latest SIGIR Audit Reports (29 Oct 2006)