Shafaq News/ Civil society organizations are indispensable tributary to sustain the sap of life in various countries, especially those with a democratic regime with its freedom of expression and peaceful rotation of power, the basic components of that regime .
Before the ninth of April 2003, there were  no civil society organizations  in Iraq, , as the former regime, like other dictatorships do not allow the existence of authority which may limit the authority of government. It  also it would not allow the exercise of any activity outside the activities of the ruling party, and this is incompatible with the nature of civil society organizations and their  aims and mechanisms of action.
Some informed sources told  "Shafaq  News" that "There are some 13,000 non-governmental organizations, with the exception of Faily Kurdish organizations and associations whose number has declined significantly.  Their number became less than ten after they had been nearly thirty organizations  in Iraq regardless of whether they were effective or not. "
About the problems and obstacles faced by civil society organizations the vice-president of the Kurdish House Sundus Mirza says, they are concentralized in the "lack of appropriate constitutional and legislative, legal and political environment, for the work of the organizations of civil society in Iraq.
"This is an important factor of the role declining  of these organizations, in addition to the lack and scarcity of financial resources, as well as the prevalence of violence and terrorism and the absence of the rule of law and institutions, which led to the growth of many factors that stand against the work of civil society organizations ". She added.
With regard to Faily organizations and associations Mirza  continued by saying that "The space in which They operate is narrow and the work environment and nature is marred by a lot of chaos. These  organizations are specialized in the human concern of rights restore  that was  taken away from the Faily Kurds after being ignored by governmental agencies."
She noted that civil society organizations started from the "maximum centralism  to the maximum of freedom and openness . So we can say that  it reached the level of chaos, after the change, 2003. For this, we can say that the beginnings of their  founding was distorted, because there were no civil  society organizations in the true sense  during the reign of the dictatorial regime. If  there were such civil society organizations, such a thunderous collapse would not happen . "
Widad Rajab president of the Charity Organization for the Liberal Faily Kurds talked about the positives  and negatives of civil society organizations saying, "Every action has its disadvantages and its advantages . The same thing is with other civil society organizations. As for the negatives there is apparent lack of competent human staffs that has the professional capabilities, and the weak capacity of those organizations to develop strategies and appropriate action plans on the basis of the principle of participation, consultation because of the recency of the experience of the civil action in Iraq. "
As for the positives of civil society organizations, she said to "Shafaq  News", they include "collective action, equality, tolerance and respect for others and the multiplicity of views and ideas and they provide assistance to citizens and non-violence culture and discourse and practice as well as the right of women in the political economic, social participation as well as  the awareness of the rights of citizenship."
Rajab spoke about the positives derived from the Faily Kurdish civil society organizations, and said  "They are  working to reunite the Kurds through communication with others, and taking  advantage of ideas, skills and working in a legal and civilized way while the members' work is voluntary to serve  their sect."
With regard to the disadvantages she mentioned that  some are not to, " continue the hard work and that the projects undertaken by them are imperfect and incomplete in addition to the similarity of the work of many of them to each other by establishing similar organizations to other organizations in spite of the fact that they have the same grievances and demands . So it led to chaos and confusion in their work ".
Although the official figures indicate the existence of 8000 approved  civil society organizations and institutions which are not active on the ground out of 13,000 legal organizations in various sectors according to the words of activists in them  , their work is described as to be seasonal being associated with religious and national holidays. This explains their failure to play their role as a real channel of the permanent. mobilization

Reports say there are thousands of development projects that were planned to be constructed by Iraqi organizations looking for new formulas for funding after the cessation of the donor countries' free aid with the end of the period of the signed agreements, which means that the renewal of the agreement will not occur before 2015, which makes it imperative for civic organizations to search for a practical alternatives to ensure the process of civic action.
As for the funding of the Faily Kurds organizations activists working in those organizations stressed that " In most cases they are funded by parties whose trend is national rather than a humanitarian, or that the funding bodies are driven ideologically, and in both cases it does not match with the sect that wish to restore their rights. Sometimes there is the self-funding ."

Some argue that the Faily associations and organizations are able to be prominent among the this huge number of civil society organizations in Iraq whose number was estimated to be 13,000 organizations that  could form their name and  considerable prestige .One of  these organizations is  the " Kurdish House," which was counted  by the Organizations Section of the Ministry of Human Rights as one of ten effective organizations.

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