Doha: The Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a new book entitled Development Cooperation.. The State of Qatar as Model, in which it deals with the role played by Qatar in helping Islamic countries, especially the poor ones.
The book highights Qatar's plans and programmes aimed at addressing poverty and hunger, spreading quality education, expanding health care services, building infrastructure such as roads, bridges, electric power plants, and plants for providing safe drinking water.
The book, authored by Ambassador H E Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohammed Al Horr and Dr. Nawzad Abdul-Rahamn Al Hiti, reviewed the genesis and development of international development cooperation, and the developmental conditions in Islamic countries, and the institutional frameworks concerned with cooperation within the framework of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
The 240-page book was divided into three chapters, the first of which dealt with an overview of international development cooperation in terms of its genesis, and the institutional frameworks concerned with it at the global scale, and at the level of the OIC, while the second chapter focused on studying the economic and development conditions in Islamic countries, while the third chapter dealt with a review of 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 to prepare effectively to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.
The International development cooperation has assumed increasing importance after World War II and the beginning of efforts to rebuild Europe and the establishment of institutions concerned with financing international development and the independence of many countries. The view of development cooperation has evolved through the transfer of experiences and knowledge from the economically and technically advanced countries to the least developed ones.
In order to institutionalise international development cooperation, many international institutions concerned with providing development aid, whether in the form of financial aid or technical support, were established. Many international and regional institutions for development were established, as well as banks, programmes and Arab funds such as the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the Arab Monetary Fund, and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA).
