Projects

In September 2017, on the sideline of the 73th United Nations General Assembly, HH the Emir of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, pledged to provide access to quality education for an additional one million girls by 2021 in support of the Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education for Girls, Adolescent Girls and Women in Developing Countries. With local and international partners, QFFD has implemented this pledge, primarily in regions of conflict.

Between September 2018 and December 2020, through funding from QFFD, the Education Above All Foundation enrolled 1,612,704 out-of-school girls in quality primary education programmes, significantly exceeding the Charlevoix 1 million commitment.

Through funding  from the  Qatar Fund for Development, Education Above All  Foundation continues to deliver access to  quality  education to marginalized communities across 51 countries—many in regions of conflict—through its Educate a Child Programme.   By the end of 2020, a total of 4,917,413 out-of-school girls had been enrolled in quality primary education programmes.

In 2016, the State of Qatar, through Qatar Fund for Development, launched "Qatar Upholding Education for Syrians’ Trust” (QUEST), an initiative that aims to ensure that children and young people affected by the Syrian crisis have access to education, skills training, and healthcare services, both inside Syria as well as in neighboring refugee host countries, including Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey.  

Examples of QUEST Education initiatives include the establishment and operation of community centers in Gaziantep, Turkey to serve Syrian refugees with educational and life-skills development programmes. In Syria itself, QUEST Education has partnered with Qatar Charity to print and distribute elementary, middle, and high school textbooks to support the continuation of education for students.

In March 2021, Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly respond to the increasing needs of the most vulnerable children in Northwest Syria.

The Syria Educational Programme represents a critical investment to support both children and teachers in Idlib and Aleppo governorates. The programme has supported 130,000 children and 5.731 teachers across 435 schools, particularly through the payment of teacher stipends to ensure teachers continue to have a livelihood and students continue to learn during a time when no financial resources are available locally to ensure the continuation of education.

The Al Fakhoora Dynamic Futures Programme, a collaboration with the Dutch NGO, SPARK, and Qatari NGO Education Above All, aims to build a cadre of civic-minded, intellectually able, and professionally skilled young women who are to become community, business, and national leaders of the future. The programme, which targets Palestinian postsecondary students of underserved backgrounds in Gaza, avails opportunities for them to actualise their potential by overcoming socioeconomic, political and cultural limitations and enabling them to become productive members in the society. The programme provides vocational and higher-education scholarships, leadership and advocacy training, and career-related support to bridge the gap between academic studies and professional life.