Nama-UNFPA workshop discusses role of Qatari youth in development

The Social Development Centre ‘Nama’,  in co-operation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), organised yesterday a workshop on the role of Qatari youth in the country’s development. A number of experts and researchers interested in issues of development and empowerment, as well as specialists in youth studies and their roles at various levels, especially those related to their participation in comprehensive community development plans, attended the workshop.The workshop discussed the results of a study prepared by Nama in co-operation with UNFPA under the title “Youth in Qatar: Situation Analysis and Response Assessment” as part of a project in which the two sides will co-operate for a year-and-a-half on the same issue.The workshop also discussed a number of concrete recommendations on how to improve the working methods with young people in Qatar, in order to achieve progress and advancement of the State.CEO of Qatar Foundation for Social Work Amal Abdullatif al-Mannai said that the workshop comes in the context of a joint project between the Nama Centre and the UNFPA, which was signed in October 2017 to provide technical support to the Centre and achieve its objectives in building the capacities of the Qatari youth.She added that this joint project, which was the result of the co-operation protocol signed by the Qatar Foundation for Social Work with the UNFPA in 2015, takes 18 months and this workshop aims to discuss the outputs of the first phase, which lasted four months.Al-Mannai expressed the hope that the results of the study discussed by the workshop will outline a roadmap for the development of “Nama” plans and youth centres operating in the country, which also participated in the event.She underlined that Qatar Foundation for Social Work operates according to a methodology based on research, studies and knowledge of the needs and the impact of the centres on the target groups.For her part, Director of Community Services Department at Nama Mariam al-Mannai said that noted that the study of the youth in Qatar came in response to the results showed by the comprehensive development indicators in the country.