DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) and the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) have signed a memorandum of understanding to take their cooperation to a new level.
The agreement was signed by Yousef bin Ahmad Al Kuwari, CEO Qatar Charity, and Fahmi Bulent Yeldrim, President of IHH, at QC’s headquarters recently.
The deal takes the limited and seasonal nature of cooperation between the two organisations to a strategic and permanent level. It is expected to bring together QC and IHH in immediate, medium and long-term joint efforts to serve their humanitarian goals and to rationalise the use of their resources to achieve maximum impact.
Al Kuwairi said that their immediate focus was to jointly provide relief to war-affected regions like Syria, Palestine and Iraq, and they would also do joint relief projects in other countries, like the Central African Republic, Myanmar and Turkmenistan, among others.
He said they were not allocating a specific budget for specific projects at present and that they would keep their budgets open to the needs of people they are providing relief.
Yeldrim said aggravation of humanitarian crises across the world and the prevalence of poverty on a large scale require various actors to increase their cooperation and partnership in relief and development works to achieve the desired humanitarian and development objectives in line with, but not limited to, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and other regional and international initiatives.
The agreement will allow QC and IHH to exchange expertise and information, integrate their roles and projects, benefit from each other’s resources and capabilities and engage in joint initiatives.
Following the signing of the agreement, both sides discussed the most important joint initiatives that can be entered into and agreed to hold a two-day workshop in the next couple of months for professionals from both organisations to prepare a joint action plan within the framework of the memorandum of understanding.
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