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Al Rasheed When Sanctions Forced Us to Rethink Everything: A Story of Creative Engineering in Crisis - Zaid Jurji In the 1990s, I had the privilege (and the challenge) of serving as Head of the Water and Sanitation Programme for UNICEF in Iraq. It was a delicate and demanding era. The country had just emerged from the first Gulf War and was gripped by severe international sanctions. Every solution had to be custom-built for a context defined by scarcity, restriction, and unpredictability.

How We Built a Monitoring & Evaluation System That Passed a UN Security Council Audit

Welding of Supporting Cylinder Steel Columns In 1999, while serving as Head of the Water and Sanitation Programme at UNICEF Iraq, we were approached by the Baghdad Sewage Authority with an urgent plea.