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Doha
Geneva Graduate Institute recently held a graduation ceremony with support of Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) to honour the significant accomplishments of the graduating 2022 cohort of the Executive Programmes on Development Policies and Practices (DPP).
The programme celebrated 80 graduates representing 39 countries, while also welcoming them as they join the vibrant community of more than 900 alumni. The graduating class included 14 recipients of Qatar Scholarships Programme from nine developing countries.
The strategic partnership between Qatar Scholarships Programme, Geneva Graduate Institute and Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU) comes to contribute to the programme’s commitment in increasing access to quality tertiary education by offering scholarships to the DPP-MENA executive programme. The DPP-MENA aims to prepare individuals to address challenges of social development in developing regional contexts and seeks to develop competencies, knowledge and leadership skills to the participants.
The ceremony witnessed the presence of Philippe Puyo, programme manager for the Mekong Region; Ali Abdulla Al Dabbagh, deputy director-general for Planning of Qatar Fund for Development; Maria Jesus Alonso Lormand, director of the Service for International Solidarity of Presidential Departement, Republic and State of Geneva; Jowhara Abdulazziz Al Suwaidi, acting Chargée d’affaires of Permanent Mission of Qatar in Geneva; Eliane Ballouhey, executive director of Geneva Graduate Institute; Alexandre Dormeier Freire, programme director ,and the deans, faculty, families and guests.
Dabbagh expressed how education is a powerful force in the development of societies and how QFFD, on behalf of Qatar, is committed to improving access to quality education and gender equality simultaneously.
He said, “QFFD is proud to have established the Qatar Scholarships Programme to minimise the gap and tackle the growing barriers that prevent access to tertiary education. We hence aim to increase the right to access quality education by offering scholarships to the most impressive emerging leaders from Least Developed Counties (LDCs).”
He congratulated the cohort and encouraged Qatar Scholarships graduates to utilise the skills, knowledge and relationships that they gained to emerge as active global leaders.
He said, “Today is not the end of your journey but in fact the beginning. As Qatar Scholarships graduates, you now hold a great responsibility to the world. You now are ready to venture in
a life-long mission to create a peaceful, just and sustainable world for yourselves, your families, your communities and your respective nations.”
On his part Puyo said the DPP programme is about building capacities of both institutions and people so they can provide solutions to local and global crisis, adding that the programme is also about building bridges, learning together and from each other at a time when strong forces are pushing one against each other, nations against nations, systems against systems.
He hoped that DPP students will return home with hope, optimism and pragmatism.
In her speech, Suwaidi expressed Qatar’s prominent role and contribution toward sustainable development in the developing countries.
She said, “Qatar’s role has not been limited to providing humanitarian and development assistance, it also plays an outstanding role in mediation for conflict resolution and crisis management through means of peaceful settlement, which contribute to strengthening regional and international security and stability and constitute a preventive way to avoid many humanitarian crises and mitigate their tragic effects.”
She expressed Qatar’s keenness to host the second part of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in March 2023, which seeks to advance solutions to achieve sustainable development goals in the developing countries.
Lormand said, “In this world of numerous crisis, new communication and information tools allow us today to stay connected. DPP students have received during the programme course tools, information, working methods and, above all, a great network of professionals with whom they can continue to work. Whether they are in NGOs, academia, public or private institutions, it is the collaboration and effort of all of us that will help us move forward to make a fairer world.”
DPP Director Alexandre Dormeier Freire emphasised the strong ties that unite donors to the programme and the shared vision of a world based on the values of social justice, peace and diversity. DPP graduates are proponents of these values, and thanks to the skills, knowledge and networks they have acquired during the programme, they are now better equipped to implement social change in their respective communities.
DPP MENA Region, Doha Hub representative at HBKU Dr Evren Tok said that DPP programme and HBKU illustrate a best practice in hybrid education which helps participants balance theory and practice in diverse ways. The collaboration is an excellent representation of how interdisciplinary, analytical and critical thinking could be taught, learned and practice in today’s world.
Doha
Geneva Graduate Institute recently held a graduation ceremony with support of Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) to honour the significant accomplishments of the graduating 2022 cohort of the Executive Programmes on Development Policies and Practices (DPP).
The programme celebrated 80 graduates representing 39 countries, while also welcoming them as they join the vibrant community of more than 900 alumni. The graduating class included 14 recipients of Qatar Scholarships Programme from nine developing countries.
The strategic partnership between Qatar Scholarships Programme, Geneva Graduate Institute and Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU) comes to contribute to the programme’s commitment in increasing access to quality tertiary education by offering scholarships to the DPP-MENA executive programme. The DPP-MENA aims to prepare individuals to address challenges of social development in developing regional contexts and seeks to develop competencies, knowledge and leadership skills to the participants.
The ceremony witnessed the presence of Philippe Puyo, programme manager for the Mekong Region; Ali Abdulla Al Dabbagh, deputy director-general for Planning of Qatar Fund for Development; Maria Jesus Alonso Lormand, director of the Service for International Solidarity of Presidential Departement, Republic and State of Geneva; Jowhara Abdulazziz Al Suwaidi, acting Chargée d’affaires of Permanent Mission of Qatar in Geneva; Eliane Ballouhey, executive director of Geneva Graduate Institute; Alexandre Dormeier Freire, programme director ,and the deans, faculty, families and guests.
Dabbagh expressed how education is a powerful force in the development of societies and how QFFD, on behalf of Qatar, is committed to improving access to quality education and gender equality simultaneously.
He said, “QFFD is proud to have established the Qatar Scholarships Programme to minimise the gap and tackle the growing barriers that prevent access to tertiary education. We hence aim to increase the right to access quality education by offering scholarships to the most impressive emerging leaders from Least Developed Counties (LDCs).”
He congratulated the cohort and encouraged Qatar Scholarships graduates to utilise the skills, knowledge and relationships that they gained to emerge as active global leaders.
He said, “Today is not the end of your journey but in fact the beginning. As Qatar Scholarships graduates, you now hold a great responsibility to the world. You now are ready to venture in
a life-long mission to create a peaceful, just and sustainable world for yourselves, your families, your communities and your respective nations.”
On his part Puyo said the DPP programme is about building capacities of both institutions and people so they can provide solutions to local and global crisis, adding that the programme is also about building bridges, learning together and from each other at a time when strong forces are pushing one against each other, nations against nations, systems against systems.
He hoped that DPP students will return home with hope, optimism and pragmatism.
In her speech, Suwaidi expressed Qatar’s prominent role and contribution toward sustainable development in the developing countries.
She said, “Qatar’s role has not been limited to providing humanitarian and development assistance, it also plays an outstanding role in mediation for conflict resolution and crisis management through means of peaceful settlement, which contribute to strengthening regional and international security and stability and constitute a preventive way to avoid many humanitarian crises and mitigate their tragic effects.”
She expressed Qatar’s keenness to host the second part of the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in March 2023, which seeks to advance solutions to achieve sustainable development goals in the developing countries.
Lormand said, “In this world of numerous crisis, new communication and information tools allow us today to stay connected. DPP students have received during the programme course tools, information, working methods and, above all, a great network of professionals with whom they can continue to work. Whether they are in NGOs, academia, public or private institutions, it is the collaboration and effort of all of us that will help us move forward to make a fairer world.”
DPP Director Alexandre Dormeier Freire emphasised the strong ties that unite donors to the programme and the shared vision of a world based on the values of social justice, peace and diversity. DPP graduates are proponents of these values, and thanks to the skills, knowledge and networks they have acquired during the programme, they are now better equipped to implement social change in their respective communities.
DPP MENA Region, Doha Hub representative at HBKU Dr Evren Tok said that DPP programme and HBKU illustrate a best practice in hybrid education which helps participants balance theory and practice in diverse ways. The collaboration is an excellent representation of how interdisciplinary, analytical and critical thinking could be taught, learned and practice in today’s world.
