STRUCTURE PLAN OF BABIL GOVERNORATE

Following the successful project of Muthanna Structure Plan, ended in January 2008, in September 2008 SGI wona new tender for the finalization of Babil Structure Plan
called by the Iraqi Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works. The Governorate of Babil, situated in central Iraq, is the cradle of the Mesopotamian civilisation. The capital
Hillah, 250km away from Baghdad, was founded on the ruins of the legendary city of Babylon.
The objective of the plan is to deliver to the Ministry, to the regional authorities and to the people, a tool capable to guide the development of the region in the forecoming
thirty years.
The plan focuses mainly on the territory and widens to the population, the culture, the economy, the services and the infrastructure.

Driven by its past experience and supported by its network of professional field surveyors, SGI uses GIS technology as cornerstone of its strategy in implementing the plan, resulting in a model of the territory and all its resources, ready to be planned for a flourishing development in the  short, medium and long term.

SGI develops a planning strategy based on international and Iraqi planning standards. The result is the selection of a tailor made set of development indicators for Babil Governorate.

The development indicators analyse and enlighten important aspects of socio-economy, agriculture, industry, public services, infrastructure, natural resources and environment.

The values of such indicators, to be achieved in the short-medium and long term, are defined by means of benchmarking technique, analysing boundary regions and nations, recognized as a potential model of development.

The final step of the planning process is the design of sectorial strategies, as sound and sustainable actions allowing the achievement of development objectives.

The proposed actions are then transformed in a series of projects, for each sector, to be implemented in the short-medium and long-term. The entire plan is presented with GIS-based sectorial maps and key diagrams, in order to provide for a visual consistency.