The Minister of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs, H E Dr Issa bin Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi, during the training programme, yesterday.
DOHA: The Family Affairs Department of Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs organised a training course under the title of “Training on children rights programming and result-based planning” in cooperation with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) yesterday.
During the opening of the training program, Minister of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs H E Dr Issa bin Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi said: “This training course comes within the framework of benefiting from the expertise of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and the continuous cooperation in the field of child protection and rights. In organizing and integrating such events to prepare a generation of experts in all sectors concerned with children.”
He added that the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs is establishing more cooperation in this field, especially since the development of the human element is a cornerstone of Qatar National Vision 2030. Najat Al Abdullah, Director of the Family Affairs Department at the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs, explained that the Department aims at preparing a generation of planners and experts in the field of children, especially in the process of developing the 2019-2022 strategy.
“The presence of Unicef at the beginning of this strategy is a great support for the organization.
The objective of the child rights component is to make the participants aware of the general principles of CRC and how they should be used in programming for the children to apply a child rights-based approach to programming. The participants will go in very practical and interactive way through the provisions and general principles of the CRC and they will use practical case studies from their actual work.”
The training will also cover other key child rights instruments, such as the three optional protocols to the CRC, Convention 182 and the convention on the rights of people with disabilities. Special focus will be given throughout the training on social inclusion and equality. During the training, Irfan Akhtar, Deputy Representative UNICEF Gulf Area Officer said: “The purpose of the Result-Based Management (RBM) training is aimed at improving knowledge and understanding about the concept and to the design, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation of programmes and reporting of results.”
“According to United Nations development group, result-based management handbook, Result-Based Management (RBM) is a management strategy by which all people and organizations, directly or indirectly contribute to achievement of desired results (outputs, outcomes and higher level goals or impact),” Akhtar added. The Result-Based Management (RBM) training also focuses on strengthening capacities for the application of the results-based management to improve the organization’s effectiveness and accountability. The Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) require even stronger RBM capabilities to demonstrate national results.
