Given its interest in networking and joining partnerships with others in the implementation of its projects worldwide, Qatar Charity (QC) has co-operated with United Nations agencies and organisations through 42 memorandums of understanding, partnership and co-operation agreements since 2000 to date, it was announced yesterday.
Memos and co-operation agreements have been signed with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP), the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
These agreements covered various humanitarian and developmental areas such as relief, resettlement of displaced persons, livelihoods, water, sanitation, logistics, food, resource mobilisation, agriculture and food security, expert exchange, health and social welfare. Several countries have benefited from these projects and co-operation, namely Palestine, Somalia, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen and Niger.
As for UNHCR, two general agreements were signed in 2000, a relief agreement in 2002 for Pakistan, water and sanitation agreement in 2004 and 2005, relief agreement for Yemen in 2009, relief agreement for Myanmar 2012, resettlement agreement for Somali IDPs in 2013, relief agreement for Yemen and Malaysia in 2015 and a relief agreement for Iraq in 2017.
Agreements with the WFP included logistics agreement (a general agreement) from 2008 to 2014, provision of food for Sudan in 2007, provision of food for Palestine in the Gaza Strip in 2009, provision of food for Pakistan (two agreements) and mobilisation of resources at global level (a general agreement in 2015).
Co-operation with the IOM focused on Sudan relief in 2007 and a global co-operation
agreement signed in 2016.
With regard to co-operation with FAO, it started in 2009 in the field of agriculture in Palestine and Somalia, then in agriculture in Pakistan 2010 and in the field of food security in Niger in the period 2013-2017.
QC co-operated with the Unicef in the area of social welfare in Somalia in 2009. This co-operation covered the field of water and sanitation in Pakistan (two agreements) and continued in 2010 and 2016 and a general agreement was also signed
in 2013.
QC and the OCHA signed a global co-operation agreement on the exchange of experts in 2009, and the UNDP signed the Sudan Livelihoods Agreement
in 2017.
With regard to QC’s co-operation with UNRWA, two agreements were signed in the field of health in 2013 for the Gaza Strip, and an agreement in the field of relief this year for Palestine. QC operates in 48 countries across the world and has 26 field and regional offices abroad.
