Global professional services consultancy Coffey International Limited (COF) today announced that the U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded Coffey a US$40 million funding increase within the contract for the Tatweer Project in Iraq. Coffey is managing the Tatweer Project, part of the United States Government’s program to rebuild a strong Iraqi civil service. This increases total funding for the project to its ceiling of US$340 million. The Tatweer Project aims to rebuild administrative capacity of key ministries within the Iraqi Government, and to deliver services to the Iraqi people. The additional US$40 million contract will allow the project to be extended to all eighteen Iraqi provinces, ensuring that project successes obtained in Baghdad can continue at every level of the Iraqi state. Project advisors will expand their work with ministers, mid and senior level staff to develop project management, human resources, information technology and financial management skills.
Managing Director Roger Olds said: “I am delighted Coffey continues to play a vital role in improving the lives of Iraqis, a role we have been undertaking for 30 years. Our success with Tatweer also helps to create opportunities for Australian and international firms seeking to participate in the reconstruction of Iraq and grows the reputation Coffey has as a global provider of specialist knowledge solutions, particularly in difficult environments.”
Coffey is a leading global professional services consultancy focusing on both physical and social infrastructure. It uses specialist knowledge to deliver extraordinary outcomes for its clients across the full lifecycle of a project, from concept to completion. It works involves a wide range of built assets – like roads, buildings, gas pipelines, mines, and sporting facilities – just about everything that is required to meet the demands of a growing world population, rapid urbanisation and heightened environmental sustainability awareness.
