Burgess Manuscripts
IRAQ ... A New Direction 2006
A Strategy for Peace
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Foreword
This book would benefit from more work and more time ... but the subject matter has an urgency about it that overrides this. In a few days the Baker – Hamilton Report will be released and will put some new options on the table. I want this work to be in print before the Baker-Hamilton Report comes out, mainly because I want to present my thinking before I am confused by the a new round of media hype about the Iraq situation.
This book is a natural evolution of my thinking about socio-economic development. An earlier book “Revolutionary Change for Relief and Development” has already identified some of the main elements that are described in this book for the Iraq situation. Unlike most of the “south”, the present Iraq situation has been very well funded, and with good management, there could be more than adequate fund flows into the future.
Whenever there is a human dimension to anything, simple answers tend to be wrong. This book is an attempt to describe how a very complex problem can be managed so that there is progress and a basis for peace rather than violence.
The thesis about much more use of management information, and having information easy to access by the public is not popular among too much of the leadership class ... but it is vital as the framers of the US Constitution recognized and the framers of the First Amendment.
Peter B.
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Some Conventions Used in the Book
“North” and”South”
Instead of referring to “developing countries”, the “underdeveloped countries”, the “least developed countries”, the “Third World”, etc. I use the term “south”.
For the “industrialized countries”, “rich countries”, or whatever, I use the term “north”.
Obviously this does not fit into a rigorous geographic interpretation, with Australia and New Zealand, for example, being part of the “north”, but I prefer these labels to any others.
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Setting the Stage
Chapter 2. New Direction Strategy
Chapter 3. Millions of People
Chapter 4. Thousands of Communities
Chapter 5. Many Thousands of Organizations
Chapter 6. Hundreds of Issues
Chapter 7. Implementation: Process - Activities
Chapter 8. Implementation: Management Functions
Chapter 9. Implementation: Management Information
Chapter 10. Projects ...???
Chapter 11. The Money Dimension
Chapter 12. Dozens of Sectors
Chapter 13. Sectors: Governance - Government
Chapter 14. Sectors: Infrastructure
Chapter 15. Sectors: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Chapter 16. Sectors: Industrial Production
Chapter 17. Sectors: Services
Chapter 18. Sectors: Social Services
Chapter 19. Conclusions and Afterward
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CONTENTS - DETAIL
1. Setting the Stage
The Starting Point
The Challenge
2. New Direction Strategy
Iraq – New Direction Summary
More Focus on a Civil Economy
Less Focus on Military
People
Community
Organizations
Implementation - Management Structure
Implementation - Management Information
3. Millions of People
Put People at the Center of Everything
More Good People than Bad People
How Should People Organize?
What Do People Need?
4. Thousands of Communities
Communities ... Where People Live
Community Centric Planning
Multi-Sector in the Community
Organizations in a Community
Issues in the Community
The Idea of Community Information
Compiling Community Information
Important Caveat
5. Many Thousands of Organizations
Organization and Organizations
At the National Level
At the Supra National Level
6. Hundreds of Issues
Not a Single Silver Bullet
Violence ... or Peace?
Poor Transparency and Accountability
A Lot More Issues in Alphabetical Order
7. Implementation: Process - Activities
About Implementation
Structure
Getting the Facts
Planning a Strategy
Planning Activities
Mobilizing Resources
Implementing Activities
Measurement
Feedback
Improved Activities
8. Implementation: Management Functions
Structure for Managing
Mobilizing Data ... Getting Started
Planning as a Management Function
Accounts ... Accounting
Budget ... Budgeting
Measurement of Performance
Monitoring and Evaluation
Oversight
Transparency
Accountability
Human Resources
Audit
9. Implementation: Management Information
Management Information
Measurement
Accounting Information
Performance Information
Socio-Economic Statistics
Collection of Information
Data Design – MetaData
Data Quality and Reliability
Easy Access to Important Information
Academic Community
10. Projects ... ???
About Projects
11. The Money Dimension
Money is Important
Requirements for Money
Control of the Money
Micro-Credit
Mini-Credit
Muni-Credit
Organization ... at the Community Level
Central Bank and Government Treasury
Investment Fund for Future Generations
12. Dozens of Sectors
Types of Sectors.
Inter-Sector Linkage.
Public and Private Sectors
Enterprise Sector ... Employment
Formal and Informal Sectors
Productive and Social Sectors
Relief and Development Sector
Luxury Sector
13. Sectors: Governance - Government
Government Administration
Government Accounting
Government Revenues and Public Finance
Policy Framework for Natural Resources
Military
Police
Judicial System
Prisons
Disarmament, De-Mining and UXOs
Economic Security
Enabling Environment
14. Sector - Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Housing
Seaports and Airports
Roads
Telecom
Water
Energy
15. Sectors: Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Crop Agriculture
Livestock and Range Management
Fisheries
Food
16. Sectors: Industrial Production
Energy - Oil and Gas
Energy - Electricity
Minerals and Mining
Manufacturing
Construction
17. Sectors: Services
Banking and Financial Services
Communications
Logistical Services
Maintenance
Media
Professional Sector
Tourism
Hotels and Restaurants
Trade
18. Sectors: Social Services
Education
Health
19. Conclusions and Afterword
Can we have success?
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The Transparency and Accountability Network (Tr-Ac-Net)
Tr-Ac-Net's mission is to help people and organizations engaged in, or
interested in, the performance of the international relief and development
sector, to improve performance and help to ameliorate the poverty,
hunger, disease, lack of education and lack of opportunity at the bottom of
the socio-economic pyramid.
Tr-Ac-Net offers consulting services and is publishing a series of books
that address various aspects of the problem. The aim of the books is to
identify problems and then help to focus on possible ways to mitigate the
problems in a practical way.
The underlying theme is always that good management information can
help improve decision making, and that secrecy and the lack of
transparency, accounting and accountability will always constrain
performance and serve the interests of those that are rich, powerful and,
too often, also corrupt.
The books are published by Tr-Ac-Net Inc. and available through the
www.lulu.com print-on-demand website (Search using Peter Burgess to
find the Tr-Ac-Net material).
More information about Tr-Ac-Net is available at www.tr-ac-net.org
Tr-Ac-Net Inc. is affiliated with Ecologia Virtual Foundation, an
organization with IRS 501 c 3 status.
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Iraq
A New Direction
Multi-Sector Area Development
A Strategy for Peace ... A Methodology for Rapid Socio-Economic Progress
By Peter Burgess
Published by Tr-Ac-Net Inc.
Copyright 2006 by Peter Burgess
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
Published 2006
Printed by www.lulu.com in the United States of America
ISBN X-XXX-XXXXX-X
Dedicated to my family and friends.
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