The Qatar Charity (QC) has revealed that the number of co-operation and partnership agreements it has signed with United Nations organisations, agencies, humanitarian organisations and international and regional donors has reached 93, with total value amounting to more than US$126.3mn.
A report issued by the QC said that these figures reveal its keenness on partnership and co-operation and show the scale of programmes and projects implemented across the world through partnerships with United Nations agencies and other international organisations.
The report records QC’s co-operation with main bodies, the most important of which are 8 of the United Nations agencies and organisations with 70 agreements with a total value of $28.2mn, the Islamic Development Bank with $82.8mn and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) with $7.38mn.
The report also showed QC’s co-operation with other international organisations, such as the International Medical Corps, with a total value of $2.74mn for the health sector in Syria, Central Africa, Sierra Leone and Somalia in 2014-2015 and with the British Orbis organisation in the field of Fighting Blindness in Bangladesh 2015.
Besides this, QC’s co-operation with the US Office for the Co-ordination of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID) in Pakistan’s Water, Sanitation and Economic Empowerment Project 2010 and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2013 and Care International Care is worth more than half a million dollars. In the area of provision of livelihood in Sudan, QC’s co-operation with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in 2009 is valued at $4mn. A memorandum of understanding in the field of health sector with the Kanoute Foundation in 2016 focused on provision of livelihood. 
The report also referred to the co-operation with the UAE Red Crescent through a memorandum of understanding for the provision of relief in Iraq in 2009 and Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) through the MoH and Mosaic UK, where an agreement was signed in the field of social welfare.
The co-operation between Qatar Charity and the Islamic Development Bank included countries such as Syria in the field of education for displaced children and refugees and the provision of educational curricula for them and Palestine, especially the reconstruction efforts of the Gaza Strip in the areas of health, education, infrastructure and social housing for poor families.
In 2014 and 2015, Qatar Charity co-operated with ISESCO, covering several areas such as education, culture and economic empowerment in a number of African countries.
The report said that memoranda and agreements of co-operation with UN agencies and organisations included the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme (WFP), the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Qatar Charity’s co-operation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) amounted to $5.49mn from 2000 to 2017. It included water and sanitation agreements in Kosovo, relief, water and sanitation in Pakistan, relief to Yemen, Myanmar, Iraq and Malaysia and repatriation of displaced Somalis.
The total value of Qatar Charity’s agreements with the World Food Programme reached $4.83mn from 2007 to 2015, covering areas of global logistics co-operation, provision of food for Sudan, Palestine, the Gaza Strip, Pakistan (two agreements) and mobilisation of resources at the global level, the report said.
QC’s co-operation with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) focused on the relief measures for Lebanon in 2007, which was at a cost of $0.3mn, as well as the signing of a global co-operation agreement in 2016.
QC’s co-operation with FAO amounted to $7.8mn from 2009 to 2017, and included the agriculture sector in Somalia, Pakistan and food security in Niger.
The co-operation between Qatar Charity (QC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) reached more than $5.2mn between 2009 and 2016 in areas of social welfare in Somalia, water and sanitation in Pakistan (more than one agreement), according to the report.
Qatar Charity and the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) signed an international co-operation agreement on exchange of expertise in 2009. QC also collaborated with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on economic empowerment in Palestine and Indonesia from 2009 to 2012 and livelihoods in Sudan in 2017 with a total value of $2.35mn.
QC’s co-operation with the United Nations agencies included the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), with two agreements for the health sector signed in 2013 at the level of the Gaza Strip worth $2mn.
Qatar Charity operates in 48 countries across the world and has 26 field and regional offices outside Qatar.