DOHA: The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics and ExxonMobil Qatar officially launched a capacity building course on National Development Strategy 2011-2016 yesterday.
The Minister H E Dr Saleh Mohamed Salem Al Nabit and Bart Cahir, President and General Manager, ExxonMobil Qatar Inc., attended the opening and addressed over 25 public sector officials who are participating in the week-long workshop, providing insights into the importance of evidence-based analyses to support national labour strategies.
The course will provide officials from the Ministry of Labour, Supreme Education Council and other ministries and agencies with a better understanding of labour concepts and methodologies.
It will teach participants how to apply the concepts and methodologies for policymaking, policy analyses and monitoring and contribute to the development and implementation of national labour strategies to achieve objectives of the Human Development Pillar of Qatar National Vision 2030.
“The course responds to requests from ministries and agencies for capacity building in best practice techniques to support labour market analyses and policymaking to implement the strategy,” the Minister said.
“It is important that our colleagues receive first-class training in assessing important statistical information to help accurately describe our economy and build a labour market outlook. I thank ExxonMobil Qatar for support for the course, and look forward to continuing to work with them on future programmes for the good of Qatar, its citizens and workforce,” he said.
“We are proud and honoured to be part of the initiative and to be the only private sector corporation to support the ministry with this endeavour,” said Cahir.
“The course provides lasting knowledge and skills to national labour market experts and supports the development of a framework to increase their participation — men and women — in technical and vocational positions, which is critical to successful industry operations across all sectors of Qatar’s economy. “With a Qatarisation head count of 53 percent as of January 2014, up 5 percent from 2013, we continuously strive to meet the objectives of Qatar National Vision 2030’s Human Development Pillar within our own walls by recruiting and developing Qataris to handle key industry-specific responsibilities.”
The Peninsula
