Good Governance in Public Administration
One of the ETTC's core programmes is capacity-building to improve democracy, good governance, environment, human rights and the rule of law together with the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Central Government of Iraq. Since 2009 the ETTC has trained more than 9000 people from all different ministries under our Leadership Training Programme (LTP). This programme embrace ministers, directors and senior staff to junior staff. Experts from Germany, Sweden and other EU-countries are engaged as trainers to share knowledge and exchange experiences. The ETTC offers advanced trainings for government spokespersons, about human rights, environmental policy, road safety, women empowerment , public administration, etiquette and protocol.
Since 2009 the ETTC has contributed to the economic and democratic development of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by offering a wide range of training, seminars, workshops, exhibitions and other events in cooperation with European partner countries. The German Federal Foreign Office and the Ministry of Planning of Kurdistan Regional Government are the main donors for LTP Courses.
In addition to the specialist subjects, government staff are offered language and computer training courses of up to three months. Before starting the language courses the government employees are put in a placement test to assess their existing capabilities.
The GGPA (Good Governance in Public Administration) is not limited to Iraqi Kurdistan, although the location in Erbil has made it possible to offer strong support to the Kurdistan Region. The training courses have been offered to participants from other regions of Iraq and its federal Government too.
Political Party Collaboration Training
Since its very beginning ETTC has contributed in improving the governance in public administration but at such challenging times, it was considered especially necessary to push the party leaders to implement reforms. Therefore, an intensive five days’ workshop had been delivered by international lecturers for active party leaders in the KRI to cover various important leadership topics. Two of the main topics discussed in this workshop were Human Resources Development and Social media.
The overall objective of this project is to support governance capacity and collaboration among political parties in the KRI during the country’s transition to growing stability and democracy. At the end of the training, a certification ceremony was held for the successful participation of the participants.
Mental Health Training
The European Technology and Training Centre (ETTC) and KR-UK IMPAKT delivered a comprehensive mental health training for the school's social workers where participants could learn various affective skills to improve their capacity and further contribute to the development of the community. The topics conducted in this training were diagnosing depression-evaluation and treatment, affective communication, listening skills, development and child behavior.
The course took a week and for the last training day, a certification ceremony was held for the successful completion of the graduating participants.The guests of honor in this event were His Excellency US Consul General Mr. Rob Waller, His Excellency Minister of Education Mr. Alan Hama Saeed Salih, Ms. Kathrin Jaschke, head of the economic section German General Consulate, Director General in Ministry of Education Mr. Bazhdar and head of planning in the ministry of education Mr. Hassan who all congratulated the participants and wished them success in the implementation of what they have learned from the training. This project was executed successfully in cooperation of ETTC and KR-UK IMPAKT.
