Qatar- QDF Bill Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership

11/25/2015 10:28:35 PM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah (right) and Bill Gates co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation signing the agreement.

DOHA: Qatar Development Fund (QDF) has signed a framework agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in New York.

Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah and Bill Gates co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation signed the agreement.

The agreement aims to develop innovative and effective means to fight disease and extreme poverty in the Arab and Muslim world and over the world and exchange of experiences in development action. The signing of this agreement comes as part of the first cooperation in the field of development between the two institutions agreed in January 2015 through the co-financing of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) QNA reported.

General Director of the Qatar Development Fund Khalifa bin Jassim Al Kuwari said this agreement will contribute to expanding the Qatari foreign assistance in the health sector and provide innovative and effective solutions in the field of development and the fight against disease and poverty in the Arab countries the Islamic world and the whole world.

Hassan Al Damluji head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Middle East Relations said that the State of Qatar is a major donor over many years and has contributed to the development efforts in many countries all over the world. As the fight against disease and poverty requires the establishment of a strong international partnership the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is delighted to partner with Qatar Development Fund for the planning and financing of projects that will improve the health and economic conditions of poor people he added.

Qatar Development Fund is a public organisation established by virtue of Qatari Law No.19 of 2002. It contributes to the capital of financial development institutions and other international and foreign institutions that aim at helping developing countries in the development of their economies and representing the State of Qatar in such institutions.

QDF was envisioned and articulated as an independent body to coordinate and implement foreign assistance on behalf of the State of Qatar. As such QDF will serve as the “face” and brand of Qatar’s foreign assistance efforts.

QDF through representing the State of Qatar aims at helping Arab countries and other developing countries to develop their economies and implement development programmes by providing loans grants and technical assistance for the economic and social development of these countries.

The Peninsula

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