Qatar Fund For Development (QFFD) has inaugurated an economic project in Sudan to empower the demobilised militants under the Doha Peace Agreement and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to establish peace and development in the Darfur region and to implement projects which will contribute to pushing forward stability and development through partnership.
The inauguration ceremony of the economic empowerment project for demobilised militants in North Darfur State was attended by Qatar’s Ambassador to Sudan, Rashid bin Abdulrahman Al Nuaimi, Minister of International Cooperation, Dr Idris Suleiman Yousif and the Representative of the Governor of North Darfur State, Dr Mohammad Yahya Hamed.
Qatar Fund For Development said in a press release that the project implemented by the RAF Foundation comes within the framework of the partnership between QFFD and the UNDP and the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Commission, pointing out that the cost of the Qatari development projects in cooperation with UNDP exceeds $88m.
QFFD stressed that the economic development project aims to achieve security and development in the Darfur region within the framework of the Doha Peace Document, which pays great attention to the issue of development and services as an essential component of peace.
The Fund said that the interest of empowering ex demobilised combatants and their integration into society comes within the projects of early recovery in Darfur and the implementation of the Darfur Development Strategy adopted by the State of Qatar at the International Conference of Donors for Development and Reconstruction in Darfur in April 2013.
On this occasion, Sudanese Minister of International Cooperation Dr Idris Suleiman Yousif praised Qatar’s efforts to bring peace to Darfur, adding that Qatar is not only contributing to the peace process but has also supported the development and social services which play a key role in stabilising and sustaining the peace process.
He stressed the importance of the project to empower economically demobilised militants, which is aimed at introducing them into the production process by targeting 3,000 militants in all Darfur states at a cost of more than $10m in the first phase, in implementation of the provisions of the Doha Peace Document on Darfur.
