Manama: A Memorandum of Understanding to boost research on issues related to families, women, children, and the elderly in Qatar has been signed by Doha International Family Institute (DIFI) and the Qatar Foundation for Social Work (QFSW).
According to the MoU, the parties agree to annual action plans outlining the conduct of research and studies aimed at assessing and implementing policies and programmes pertaining to families, women, children, and the elderly in Qatar, monitoring and studying the risks faced by Qatari families and vulnerable groups and submitting relevant recommendations accordingly.
The MoU also includes designing and implementing programmes to raise society’s awareness of the family’s role and issues, and striving to build active partnerships between governmental organisations and civil organisations focusing on family-related issues, as well as any other activities deemed essential by the parties with a view to meeting their common goals.
DIFI Executive Director Noor Al Malki Al Jehani said the MoU was highly significant in promoting a common understanding to consolidate the institutional cooperation between the two parties as a means to contribute to the development goals focusing on families and their members in Qatar.
“DIFI believes that family is not only the fundamental group unit of society, but is also the fundamental agent for sustainable social, economic, and cultural development,” Noor said. “The MoU will guide both parties’ joint efforts at three strategic pillars: enriching research on family-related issues in Qatar; ensuring that family-related issues are a top priority for policymakers; and advancing knowledge sharing and raising community awareness of family-related issues,” she said.
DIFI is a member of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF).
“The MoU will enable DIFI to contribute to promoting Qatar Foundation’s vision in leading the efforts aimed at achieving leadership in human, social, and economic development in Qatar,” Noor said.
Amal Bint Abdul Latif Al Mannai, CEO of Qatar Foundation for Social Work, said
the MoU would help support and develop social action, and promote the sustainability of family and community cohesion as well as human development in Qatar in line with the QFSW vision and mission in empowering and developing civil society organisations.
“It will also promote their capacities and role in society in such a manner that enables them to meet the goals for which they were established, while taking into account the threats that families are facing amid regional and global developments,” she said.
