10.1 |
Reconstruction: March 2003 to June 2004
from
Baghdad, said that it would be difficult for him to return to the
CPA without any UK
funding,
and that more generally “the absence of financial flexibility was
making our work
harder in
Baghdad”.
755.
The FCO sent
an update on UK staffing in the CPA to Sir Nigel Sheinwald
on
9 September.416
Staffing in
CPA(Baghdad) was “about right”, at 60 secondees. A
major
rotation of
staff over the next two months would be an opportunity to increase
the
UK’s focus
on “Ministerially-agreed priorities of Governance, Security Sector
Reform,
Reconstruction
and the Economic/Oil Ministries”. There might also be a requirement
to
place a few
additional staff in the CPA’s Information Directorate.
756.
The FCO’s
priority was staffing CPA(South) and the Governorate Teams.
The
37 specialists
for CPA (South) requested by Sir Hilary Synnott would be sourced
through
a DFID
consultancy contract. The aim was to have them ready to deploy by
mid-October.
757.
Heads had been
selected for the four UK-led Governorate Teams (Basra
and
Dhi Qar in
the south, Wasit in central Iraq, and Kirkuk in the north). The
first, Mr John
Bourne, had
deployed to Baghdad for a familiarisation briefing before taking up
post
in Dhi Qar
(Nasiriyah). The other three would follow later in the month. The
FCO had
planned to
fill just four slots in each team, but it was clear that “the CPA
bank of staff is
dry and
that we should plan on filling our Governorates ourselves”. The
objective was to
have all
staff in place by the end of September.
758.
The remaining
three Governorate Co-ordinators deployed to Iraq by the UK
were:
•
Mr Henry
Hogger (Basra), deployed on 24 September;
•
Mr Mark
Etherington (Wasit), deployed on 29 September;
•
Mr Paul
Harvey (Kirkuk), deployed on 29 October.417
759.
The Inquiry
has not seen terms of reference for the UK’s four
Governorate
Co‑ordinators,
but appointment letters sent to seven others by Ambassador Bremer
on
25
September and published by the DoD, defined their role and lines of
command within
the
CPA:
“You are
the CPA’s principal representative to the local governments in
[name of
governorate].
You will lead a Governorate Team (GT) comprised of a CPA
staff
element, a
military Governorate Support Team, a contracted Local
Governance
Team, and
Iraqi advisors.
“The GT
will provide local governance; identify, train, and mentor local
Iraqi leaders
for roles
within future Iraqi government; monitor local contracts and
provide
416
Letter
Adams to Sheinwald, 9 September 2003, ‘Staffing for CPA
Iraq’.
417
Contact
list, 12 January 2004, ‘UK Personnel Deployed (As at 30 Dec
03)’.
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