"Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives" presents the results of its work in New York

The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation presented at the headquarters of the Permanent Mission of the UAE to the United Nations in New York its comprehensive humanitarian achievements and international contributions over the past years in various axes of spreading education and knowledge, relief and humanitarian aid, empowering communities, innovation, future foresight and health care, during a parallel event with the participation of The country's delegation at the United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, after the institution's public spending during the past five years amounted to 6.9 billion dirhams and had a positive impact on the lives of tens of millions around the world.

The delegation of the participating Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives also reviewed its projects in the education sector, for which initiatives have been allocated during the past five years 2.1 billion dirhams, the results of its business report for the year 2021, where the total volume of expenditures of the institution amounted to 1.1 billion dirhams, or the equivalent of 300 million dollars. Effective change in the lives of 91 million people in 97 countries around the world.

The Deputy Permanent Representative of the UAE to the United Nations in New York, Ambassador Mohammed Abu Shehab, delivered the opening speech in which he presented the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation and introduced the participants to the general framework of its humanitarian work around the world.

The results were presented during a special event organized by the Foundation at the headquarters of the UAE Mission to the United Nations, in the presence of heads of international organizations, delegations of participating countries, representatives of permanent international missions, members of the country's mission to the United Nations, as well as members of the Foundation's Board of Trustees.

The participants were briefed on the activities of 30 institutions and initiatives affiliated with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, and their international contributions that support the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030, which fully correspond to the five main pillars of the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Initiatives of humanitarian and relief aid. health care and disease control, dissemination of education and knowledge, innovation of the future and leadership, and empowerment of societies, by focusing on the initiatives to combat hunger and promote education implemented by the Foundation, foremost of which is the free e-learning “Madrasa” platform, and the “Digital School” initiative aimed at empowering students in remote areas and developing camps, refugee and displacement camps, and a series of food-feeding initiatives that included “10 million meals”, “100 million meals” and the “One Billion Meals” initiative that reached the needy in more than 50 countries.

Hope is an Emirati industry

In turn, Saeed Al Eter, Assistant Secretary-General of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, pointed to the global role played by the initiatives and projects implemented by the Foundation over the years in dozens of less fortunate countries and communities around the world, pointing to the set of qualitative strategic partnerships held by Mohammed bin Rashid Initiatives. Al Maktoum Global works with international organizations of the United Nations to promote charitable, humanitarian and community work.

Al-Ettar stressed that reviewing the results and achievements of the Foundation at the United Nations headquarters confirms its prominent global position and the integration between its five axes and the goals of the United Nations 2030, stressing that these humanitarian initiatives have made a qualitative difference in the lives of dozens of societies around the world in order to build a better future for all.

He added: "The Foundation is an umbrella for dozens of charitable and humanitarian institutions sponsored by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum for decades, within a vision based on the institutionalization of humanitarian and community work, and building a work system based on unifying capabilities, meeting the basic needs of societies, which directly and influentially contribute to the Promoting stability and peace, creating and renewing hope for individuals and societies.

United Nations High-level Political Forum: Rebuilding after the COVID-19 pandemic

The United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is the main platform of the United Nations on sustainable development.

Since its establishment in 2012, it has played a pivotal role in monitoring and reviewing progress in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the global level.

The Forum meets annually under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council for eight days, including a three-day ministerial segment.

The Forum is also held every four years at the level of Heads of State and Government under the auspices of the General Assembly for two days, to present the contribution of intergovernmental bodies to the 2030 Agenda in general, especially with regard to the Sustainable Development Goals and related goals.

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This session is held under the theme "Building back better after the COVID-19 pandemic while continuing to fully implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development."

The discussions focused on five sustainable development goals, namely, the fourth goal on “quality education,” the fifth goal on “gender equality,” goal No. 14 on “life under water,” goal No. 15 on “life on land,” and goal No. 17 on "Partnerships to Achieve the Goals".

Humanitarian and relief aid

The delegation participating in the humanitarian and relief aid hub, with the participation of Giuseppe Saba, CEO of the International Humanitarian City, Ute Klamert, Assistant Executive Director of the World Food Program for Partnerships and Governance, and Reuven Menekdiwela, Director of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in New York, reviewed the efforts The prominent internationality of the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Initiatives and its outstanding contributions to the achievement of the United Nations sustainable development goals, as the total humanitarian and relief assistance it provided during 2021 amounted to 417 million dirhams, an increase of 35 million dirhams over the year 2020, in which it recorded about 382 million dirhams.

The number of beneficiaries of the humanitarian and relief aid axis in the year 2021 alone reached 22.9 million people.

Food Support Initiative Series

With the growing challenge of hunger and malnutrition threatening more than 800 million people, and the escalation of food security crises, over the past three years, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s global initiatives launched a series of campaigns to provide food support, benefiting millions of individuals and families in need, the needy, refugees, displaced people and those affected by disasters. And crises in more than 50 countries around the world, as in the initiative of one billion meals, which was launched under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in Ramadan 2022 and formed a continuation of the initiative of 100 million meals that the Foundation completed in 2021, while the beginning was with the “10 million meals” campaign. Which formed a lifeline for those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

Health and Disease Prevention

Within the context of health care and disease control, which represents the third axis within the United Nations sustainable development goals, Dr. Manal Taryam, member of the Board of Trustees and CEO of the Noor Dubai Foundation, reviewed the total spending of the Foundation on dozens of therapeutic and preventive initiatives and campaigns, which amounted to 51.2 million dirhams. During 2021, its direct impact reached nearly 15 million people.

Under the axis of health care and disease control, the Al Jalila Foundation to support education and research in the medical fields and the Noor Dubai Foundation, which work to raise the level of health care and scientific and medical research to serve humanity and develop medical sciences, are affiliated with it.

Education for a sustainable future

As for the axis of spreading education and knowledge, which fully aligns with the fourth goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030, Deputy Minister of Cabinet Affairs for Strategic Affairs, Member of the Board of Directors of the Digital School, Huda Al-Hashemi, reviewed the Foundation’s efforts in this axis, highlighting the importance of digital education In accelerating the achievement of the fourth goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in providing education and the UAE’s experience in digital and developing it, leading to the digital school initiative, in a session in which His Excellency Mohamed Maa El-Enein Ould Aye, Minister of National Education and Reform of the Educational System and Government Spokesman in Mauritania participated, highlighted the Ministry’s efforts in Spreading education and fruitful cooperation with the initiatives of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, the most prominent of which is the Arab Reading Challenge, in which more than 22 million students participate in this session, as well as the Digital School Project, where the cooperation began in an experimental phase that was crowned with success, and the cooperation developed intoAn expanded agreement to include 100,000 students.” The participants were briefed on the Foundation's efforts in this axis, whose total expenditure amounted to 253 million dirhams in 2021, and more than 48.4 million people around the world benefited from its programs and initiatives.

This axis includes, under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, Dubai Cares, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Library Foundation, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation, the Knowledge Summit, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award, and the Mohammed bin Rashid Language Award Arabic, the Arab Reading Challenge, a school platform for e-learning, and a digital school.

Empowering Communities

In the axis of empowering communities, Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, with Professor Raed Al-Awamleh, Dean of the Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government, reviewed the global efforts of the Foundation and its contributions, which according to the business report for the year 2021 amounted to about 88.7 million dirhams, and the number of beneficiaries reached 2.1 million people. around the world.

Under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives within the Empowerment of Communities axis are the Mohammed bin Rashid College of Government, the Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Center for Cultural Understanding, the Arab Media Forum, the Arab Press Award, the Arab Social Media Influencers Summit and Award, and the Dubai Conference The International Athlete, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Sports Creativity, the Arab Strategic Forum, the Mohammed bin Rashid Center for Leadership Development, and Hope Makers.

Future innovation and leadership

For his part, the CEO of the Dubai Future Foundation, Khalfan Belhoul, reviewed some of the Foundation’s initiatives within the axis of future innovation and leadership, highlighting the efforts of the Museum of the Future in the field of sustainability, which comes in the context of implementing the directives of the wise leadership of the UAE in dealing with sustainability challenges, stressing that the State of The UAE, based on its awareness of the pivotal role that international partnerships play in achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, has, over 50 years of its history, recorded a track record of qualitative partnerships with international organizations to coordinate comprehensive response efforts to existing and emerging challenges.    

A global humanitarian movement

At the conclusion of the event at the headquarters of the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations in New York, in conjunction with the participation of the country’s delegation in the United Nations Forum, Abdullah Lootah, Vice Chairman of the UAE National Committee for Sustainable Development Goals, presented a set of outputs of the Foundation’s work report, which succeeded despite logistical challenges. And the technicality imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic in reaching an unprecedented number of beneficiaries compared to previous years, while its projects achieved a record participation of volunteers, whose number in 2021 alone reached nearly 145,000 volunteers in various projects and programs of the humanitarian and development foundation.

Under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, 30 initiatives and institutions implement hundreds of projects, programs and campaigns, many of which are integrated with the United Nations goals for sustainable development, within main axes: humanitarian and relief aid, health care and disease control, dissemination of education and knowledge, and innovation The future, leadership, and empowering communities.

It is worth noting that the annual reports of the works of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, for the year 2021, contain hundreds of inspiring stories whose heroes are the beneficiaries of the Foundation’s initiatives since its launch in 2015.

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