Tatweer is a USAID-funded program to develop National Capacity in Public Management. The program addresses core areas of public administration including fiscal and project management, human resources management, information technology, leadership and communication, and strategic planning. USAID/Tatweer advisors help ministries improve their basic management systems and upgrade the skills of a critical mass of their management level employees.

Meaningful in-service training for civil servants and technical assistance must be accessable beyond the borders of Baghdad as roughly two-thirds of the civil servants work in provincial directorates or in national facilities located in the other provinces. USAID/Tatweer established regional offices in Hilla, Ramadi, and Kirkuk; and assisted NCCMD and Al Quds School for Computers by establishing satellite training centers in Mosul and Basrah. These regional centers will deliver significant training to the ministry staff in the provinces of Ninawa in the North; and Basrah, Dhi Qar, Muthanna, and Maysan in the South. The Regional training center in Erbil is effectively serving the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) ministries, as well as training a significant number of civil servants stationed in Kirkuk, Ninawa, and Diyala, and supporting special multi-province workshops on a variety of topics.

In the first Quarter of 2010, 98 (51 male, 47 female) civil servants from different key ministries in Sulaymaniyah participated in five different courses delivered under the USAID/Tatweer program. In order to achieve training sustainability, the KRG Ministries of Municipalities & Tourism, and Finance had graduates of these USAID/Tatweer training courses begin to deliver public management courses within their respective ministries.