Meeting expectations
Al Fakhoora organized a partner’s technical meeting in Doha, Qatar. All strategic and implementing partners were invited to attend and participate in discussions on achievements, obstacles faced and ways to move forward, ensuring the best offerings and value are provided to Al Fakhoora students.
In February 2013 Al Fakhoora organized a partner’s technical meeting in Doha. Our strategic and implementing partners including United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) AND Islamic Relief Palestine (IRPAL) were invited to attend and take part in presentations and workshops.
It can often be challenging working remotely with numerous strategic and implementing partners on the ground and hence it becomes important to all meet together in person on a regular basis. Discussions took place on our projects, achievement and expectations, challenges and future strategies and ensuring we continued to offer the best and add value to the service we provide to our students.
It was an extremely invaluable meeting with all partners who attended giving positive feedback and feeling more energized to continue their work on the ground. The meetings, discussions and workshops allowed us to further build on our effective working relations and overcome challenges faced whilst clarifying and staying focused on our ultimate vision.
Muneeb Abu-Ghazaleh, Country Director, Islamic Relief Worldwide, attended the meeting and expressed afterwards his thoughts;
“I would like to share with you my thoughts about our partnership, as well as, the way I as a Gazan, see your initiatives and projects. Support to Palestinians comes in a number of forms, based on the strategies and interests of donors. Most countries and institutional donors are mainly interested in materialistic outputs for projects and funds (buildings, equipment, infrastructure, and so on). Looking at international donors, one finds bigger concentration and interest on human and community development. The first type of intervention is tangible and gives quick results. Where the second type of intervention is intangible and requires continuous longer term intervention.”
Al Fakhoora started as a reaction to a disaster in one school. Then it evolved to engrave its name in the minds and hearts of hundreds of thousands of people, through education, communication, awareness, health and livelihood interventions. It is now known in Gaza, that a number of highly educated postgraduate students are “Al Fakhoora sponsorship”. As Islamic relief, we had the experience of implementing the youth empowerment project with Al Fakhoora, and you have seen the impact it left on participants. Thousands in Gaza are still looking for similar opportunities.”
