His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Prince Mohammed bin Fahd Foundation for Human Development, approved the names of the institutions and charitable societies that won the first round of the Prince Mohammed bin Fahd Award for Best Charitable Performance in the Arab World this year in cooperation with the Arab Organization for Administrative Development (League of Arab States), and there will be a ceremony to honor the winning societies.
The list of winners, which includes nine associations and institutions, was distributed equally across the three branches of the award;It is the branch of large enterprises, the branch of medium enterprises, and finally the branch of small enterprises.
The winning entities were chosen from among (156) institutions and charities that participated from all over the Arab countries.In the large institutions branch, the winners were: Benaa Charitable Society for Orphan Care in the Eastern Province (Saudi Arabia), the Beit Al Khair Society (UAE), and the Majid bin Abdulaziz Society for Development and Social Services (Saudi Arabia). In the medium institutions branch, a national association for the development of orphanages (Egypt), the Tetouan Islamic Charitable Society (Morocco), and the Al Ber Charitable Society in Samta (Saudi Arabia) won. In the small institutions branch, the Fatat al-Bada’i Charitable Society for Social Development (Saudi Arabia) and the National Society for Community Development and Environmental Protection won.(Egypt), and the Moroccan Association for Child and Family Aid (Morocco).
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud - may God protect him - had previously approved the establishment of the Prince Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz Award for Best Charitable Performance in the Arab World, which is adopted by the Prince Mohammed bin Fahd Foundation for Human Development in cooperation with the Arab Organization for Administrative Development of the League of Arab States, with the aim of providing opportunities for charitable and humanitarian societies in the Arab world to reach the best performance and establish a culture of excellence in these institutions and associations.The award seeks to raise the level of charitable institutions in the Arab world, in its quest to achieve excellence in institutional performance, while adopting the best creative practices, in a way that serves the continuous development of humanitarian services provided to beneficiaries, by encouraging competition among them, and honoring accredited institutions, based on standards based on scientific foundations.
The Secretary-General of the Prince Mohammed bin Fahd Foundation for Human Development, Dr. Issa Al-Ansari, congratulated the institutions and associations that won the award, stressing that the process of sorting the files of the entities participating in the award was carried out with precision and impartiality, with the aim of selecting the institutions and associations that deserve to win.Dr. Al-Ansari said: “The technical secretariat of the award targeted five Arab countries, namely Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Sudan, by holding a number of introductory seminars with the aim of promoting the necessary objectives of the award and increasing awareness among charitable institutions of the importance of excellence in institutional performance, which had the greatest impact on the participation of associations from 15 Arab countries.”
(156) charitable organizations and associations, from all over the Arab countries, competed for the award, with an average of (25) charities from Egypt, (22) charities from Palestine, in addition to (28) charities in the Kingdom, (9) charities in Jordan, six charities in Algeria, (22) from Sudan, (29) from Morocco, (4) from Lebanon, and (2) from the Sultanate of Oman.(3) from Tunisia, (2) from Yemen, and one association from Kuwait, as well as Somalia and Bahrain.
The competent committee has approved a number of technical standards required in the work of charitable institutions and societies to enter the competition. The standards focused on the percentage of performance compared to goals, the time taken between requesting the service and its provision, the percentage of the number of complaints and the mechanism for resolving them, the number of projects implemented, and the number of branches, in addition to standards of leadership and services provided, satisfaction of beneficiaries, development of financial resources, endowment management, and other standards associated with performance.
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