Month: September 2023

The Planning and Follow-up Department/Training and Development Division in the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, in cooperation with the Training and Development Center, organized a training course entitled (Transfer, Placement, and Adding a Service) for the period from (10-14/9/2023).
The lecturer in the course (Mr. Tariq Kazem) introduced the course participants to the processes of transfer, placement, and adding service among the ministry’s formations and the laws issued in this regard. He also explained the mechanism for calculating the contract service, how to disburse financial dues, and know the general balance to calculate the service. The course concluded by conducting a trial exam for the participants.

The Planning and Follow-up Department/Training and Development Division in the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, organized a course entitled (Anti-Virus) from the period (3-11/9/2023). In the course, the programmer lecturer (Ali Majeed Hameed) addressed several topics related to educating employees and workers in the computer field about confronting electronic viruses and identifying their areas and locations, as well as introducing the ways they spread and combating them, and how to preserve sensitive data, information, and systems from theft and fraud. The course concluded with all participants undergoing a test to review the information and evaluate the participants’ grades.

Planning and Follow-up Department / Training and Development Division in the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, organized a course entitled (Internal Audit of the Quality Management System QMS) according to the requirements of the guiding standard for auditing management systems (ISO 19011: 2018) for the period from (27 / 8 until 31/8/2023.
The course program was presented by Mr. (Ahmed Abdel-Zahra Ali / Senior Manager) / director of the Quality Management Division in the Directorate, as the program included a definition of the requirements of the international standard: (ISO 9001: 2015) as well as the knowledge and skills required in the process of internal auditing of the quality management system according to the requirements of the guiding specification for auditing management systems (ISO 19011:2018).
A number of employees of the Ministry’s formations participated in the course, and the lecturer touched on the benefits of applying the quality management system, especially since the Directorate of Housing holds the international quality certificate from the awarding company (INFINTY). The lecturer also presented an integrated curriculum related to the basic concepts of the standard and the role of internal audit in addressing deviations and raising the efficiency of performance in general in the Directorate. The course included several training workshops on the application of the system and internal auditing. It is noteworthy that the Directorate of Housing has been organizing training and development courses, workshops and seminars to improve the job performance of its employees in all specializations.

In cooperation with the Training and Development Center, the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, organized a workshop entitled (Investment Challenges in the Housing Sector) Dr. Zainab Salman presented the most important investment challenges represented in:
1. Absence of proper planning in granting investment licenses.
2. Not specifying the beneficiaries, the role of banks, and the initiative of the Central Bank.
3. Selection of residential sites.
4. The technical and qualitative level of residential investment projects.
The lecturer in the workshop, Dr. Jamal Baqir Mutlaq (teacher at the Urban and Regional Planning Center for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Baghdad) gave an introductory presentation on the dimensions of the housing problem, the challenges facing the investment process, and a diagnosis of causes and effects. He touched on the housing problem of development, the economic concept of housing, and the ability to afford housing costs, with an overview of selected models for housing investment projects. The workshop concluded with issuing a set of recommendations and possible solutions to address the housing problem.