Day: November 3, 2021

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WHO Regional Office Delegation in Qatar to Assess ‘Healthy City’ accreditation of Doha and Al Rayyan Municipalities

The project includes “5” municipalities to build a healthy environment for citizens, residents and visitors

A delegation from the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean visited Qatar from October 24-27 to assess the Ministry of Public Health’s request to obtain the accreditation for Doha and Al Rayyan municipalities as the “Healthy City 2021.

The Ministry of Public Health and its partners across sectors of the country are working to obtain the accreditation for Doha and Al Rayyan municipalities as health cities by WHO, as part of a project that includes the adoption of five health cities, including the municipalities of Al Wakra, Al Khor and the North at later stages, to build a healthy environment for citizens, residents and visitors.

One of the objectives of the National Health Strategy 2018-2022 is to have the accreditation for at least one city as the “Healthy City” by WHO by 2022 via implementing intersectoral collaboration under the “Health in All Policies” priority, as there is a strong commitment in Qatar on healthy cities.

Dr. Samar al-Fiqi, the Regional Officer for Community-Based Initiatives, Healthy Settings and Health of Older Population, along with members of the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean delegation, visited the Al Dafna area of Doha Municipality, and the Education City of Al Rayyan Municipality, the two sites under evaluation The team also met a number of stakeholders from different sectors and they expressed great satisfaction with the high level of cooperation and interaction they had witnessed.

In the context of their visits to the sites, WHO’s team met a group of QF members, covering QF’s various activities, including education, community engagement and health promotion.

These efforts are reflected at the national level through the adoption of the newly designed health city logo for the State of Qatar, which is an octagonal logo, that has a well-known Arabic and Islamic pattern representing the eight municipalities in the State of Qatar. The lines of the new logo reflect the integration of municipalities and different sectors affecting all individuals and communities.

WHO Healthy Cities is a global movement working to put health high on the social, economic and political agenda of governments by promoting health, equity and sustainable development through innovation and multi-sectoral change. This comprehensive approach is based on integrating multidisciplinary actions across different sectors through community engagement, partnership, empowerment and equity.

Source: Ministry of Public Health

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Qatar to take on Saudi Arabia in International Handball Championship

Doha: Qatar national handball team will face Saudi Arabia on Thursday in the Qatar International Friendly Handball Championship, organized by Qatar Handball Association until Saturday.

The championship brings together Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iran.

On Tuesday, Qatar defeated Kuwait 32-19 and Iran beat Saudi Arabia 26-24.

The event comes in light of the preparation for the 2022 AHF Asian Handball Championship. Qatar won the 19th Asian Handball Championship held in Kuwait after defeating Korea Republic 33-21 in the final match.

Source: Qatar Olympic Committee

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H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed meets with US Secretary of State during COP26 in Glasgow

H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Head of the UAE delegation to the COP26 meeting, has met with Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State.

During the meeting, held on the sidelines of COP26 (the 26th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – UNFCCC), Glasgow, United Kingdom, Sheikh Abdullah and Blinken discussed the longstanding historic relations between the UAE and the US as well as a number of regional and global issues of mutual concern.

Sheikh Abdullah emphasised the strong and strategic UAE-US relations and the continuous cooperation development in all fields between the two sides.

Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and UAE’s Special Envoy for Climate Change, and Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, attended the meeting.

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation

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57th International Society of City and Regional Planners Congress in Doha? 8th November

The Ministry of Municipality and Environment, represented by the Urban Planning Department, has held a press conference on Sunday morning. It announced that the 57th ISOCARP Congress will launch in Doha during 8th ? 11th November 2021.

The press conference was attended by Eng. Fahad Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Assistant Undersecretary for Urban Planning- MME and the Chairman of the High Organizing Committee for the ISOCARP, and a group of the Ministry’s officials.

During the press conference, Eng. Mubarak Al-Nuaimi, the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee for the 57th ISOCARP, announced the Qatari actions and arrangements for hosting this significant international congress. Eng. Mubarak explained that this event comes just one year before hosting the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar, marking a great opportunity to showcase the Qatari astonishing preparations for this event. He added that we and all the cities of the State of Qatar, especially Doha, are bound to set the standard of contemporary green cities for offering the quality of life to all its inhabitants through sustainable urban planning. This congress will be a scientific and professional forum to exchange international next-level expertise in planning among international, regional and gulf delegations concerned with planning.

The main theme of the Congress was fittingly selected to mark the importance of this event and propose topics relevant to the post Covid-19 challenges and the climate change concerns. Therefore, it was decided to set the theme (Urban Planning unlocked: New Times, Better Places, Stronger Communities).

In addition, five sub-themes were determined to cover all the topics relevant to the contemporary urban planning, such as sustainability, inclusion, empowerment, and well-being, smart and healthy cities, resilience, adaptability, and urban communication

Source: Ministry of Municipality

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Rental Disputes Settlement Committee Changes Deposit Disbursement Mechanisms

The Ministry of Municipality and Environment, represented by the Rental Disputes Settlement Committee Office, has announced that the current deposit disbursement mechanism was changed from cheques to bank wire transfer.

The Ministry requested the beneficiaries of the depoists to address the Rental Disputes Settlement Committee Office in Al-Handasa St., Bin Dirham, and submit their IBAN details in order to facilitate the wire transfer mechanism. The Ministry confirmed that the deadline for cashing cheques will be Tuesday, 30-11-2021

Source: Ministry of Municipality

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Intense Participation by Municipalities in Qatar Sustainability Week

Municipalities are proceeding with the events of Qatar Sustainability Week 2021 to raise the awareness of all society segments, especially school students, on the importance of sustainability. These events target planting trees/ plants and adopting practices for supporting preservation of environment and public health of the society.

Al Wakrah Municipality has continued to participate in Qatar Sustainability Week events. Ms. Zainab Al-Shamari delivered a lecture on Health and Food Safety in Vision Private School. Mrs. Sheikha Al-Mahmoud, a Sustainability Team member, distributed Sustainability Pledge to Al Wakra Health Center.

As part of engaging the private sector in the sustainability transition in Al Wakra, Management and consultancy Excellence (Qatar) Limited, part of the Mace group, participated in cleaning up Al-Wakra Family Beach. In this regard, Mr. Mohammed Al-Shawi, Secretary of the Director of the Municipality, explained that the participation is necessary to promote the private sector role in transitioning to sustainability, and would also add value to the Municipality portfolio in UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities.

Al Daayen Municipality organized a competition for Municipality employees’ children to raise their awareness of definition and importance of sustainability and to engage the children in this objective. This aims to achieve QNV 2030. The participants engaged interactively in this competition, which will last till the end of the current week as the Municipality received several projects. At the end of the competition, five winners will be selected and celebrated by the Director of Al Daayen Municipality.

As part of its participation in Qatar Sustainability Week, Al Sheehaniya Municipality organized an event with Al Sheehaniya Boys School. It aimed to announce the students that Al Sheehaniya Municipality was awarded the membership of UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. Furthermore, a lecture was delivered on the importance of agriculture and plants in the State of Qatar as well as the importance of sustainability and its objectives. The students further participated in planting seedlings in the school to encourage them to plant trees.

Moreovre, Gharsa Initiative cooperated with the Public Parks Department of Doha Municipality to organize an event entitled ?Our Green Homes? to celebrate Qatar Sustainability Week 2021 in Qatar Green Park

Source: Ministry of Municipality

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Power International Employees Participate in Al-Jameel Beach Cleaning up Campaign

Last Friday, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, represented by the General Cleanliness Department (Beaches and Islands section) and the Public Relation Departments (Awareness), organized a cleaning up campaign. It targeted cleaning Al-Jameel Beach in Al-Ruwais area, with the participation of 70 employees from the Storage Department at Power International Holdings.

During the campaign, the participants collected and removed 300 waste bags left along the coast, including empty plastic boxes and bags, wood and wasted tires.

Source: Ministry of Municipality