Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) signed yesterday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva, Switzerland, to provide a cooperative framework within which the parties can develop and implement activities.
The three-year MoU will ensure the utilisation and leverage of the available resources and facilities for mutual benefit and for the benefit of the beneficiaries. Forms of cooperation include capacity-building activities, such as technical training in the use of geographic information system and remote sensing techniques for disaster and crisis management.
The agreement was signed by Ali bin Hassan Al Hammadi, QRCS Secretary-General, and Einar Bjorgo, Manager, United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), as representative of Nikhil Seth, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director, UNITAR.
Under the MoU, the scope of work will cover various areas to explore collaboration. Joint design, development, and hosting of capacity-building activities in the use of geospatial technologies for disaster and crisis management, water management, and any other field of interest of the parties.
