Doha: The Ministry of Culture, represented by the Qatari Forum for Authors, organised yesterday a special ceremony to launch the book entitled, Development Cooperation.. The State of Qatar as Model issued by the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The book was co-authored by H E Ambassador Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohammed Al Horr and Dr. Nawzad Abdul-Rahamn Al Hiti.
The session that was chaired by Maryam Yassin Al Hammadi, Director of the Department of Culture and Arts at the Ministry of Culture tackled the book content, including the role played by the State of Qatar in aiding Islamic countries, particularly poor countries to further implement the plans and programs of mitigating poverty and hunger, disseminate good education, expand health care services and build the infrastructures of roads, bridges and power generation plants and safe drinking water plants.
Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohammed Al Horr said the idea of the book came from the volume of aid and development cooperation offered by Qatar to numerous countries worldwide, pointing out that the idea is largely based on the qualities of medium and long term aid offered by Qatar, indicating that the book documented the development cooperation during the course of history among the governmental and non-governmental organisations in Qatar to monitor the development cooperation, emphasising that such cooperation has virtually impacted the countries and the various strata which had benefited from this cooperation.
For his part, Dr. Nawzad Abdul Rahman Al Hiti said that the book reviews the inception and evolution of the international development cooperation, in addition to elucidating the development situations in the Islamic countries, including the institutional framework of cooperation within the framework of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
In addition, the book, which came in 240 pages,was bifurcated into three chapters, the first of which addresses the overview of international development cooperation in terms of inception and institutional framework both at the global and OIC levels, adding that the second chapter focused on studying the economic and development conditions in Islamic countries, while the third chapter focused on reviewing the role played by Qatar in providing development aid to Islamic countries, which enabled them to help achieve some of the Millennium Development Goals, and enabled them to prepare effectively to achieve the agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development 2030.
