OUR INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS

AMAR works in partnership with national and international development organisations to maintain standards of international best practice in our work. AMAR's institutional project partners include or have included WHO, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCR, FAO, IOM, UNDP, and the World Bank on diverse projects including adult and child education, civic education, primary health care, reproductive healthcare, health training, community health education, support for farmers, and socio-demographic surveys. These relationships have been formalised under Memoranda of Understanding and Letters of Understanding which are regularly reviewed.

GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ

AMAR has an excellent relationship with the Government of Iraq and works closely with its ministries. Cooperation has been particularly strong with major ministries such as the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education. Staff participate in delivering and monitoring many of AMAR's programmes. AMAR has conducted continuous training for ministry staff including medical capacity-building for front-line medical staff, and human rights training for local and national staff in the local ministry directorates for Education, Health, Youth and Sports, Communications and Mail. AMAR has also worked on projects with the local authorities.

UNESCO

Over the past few years, AMAR’s partnership with UNESCO has enabled the teaching of thousands of children and illiterate young adults, as well as the promotion of human rights and cultural tolerance. This dramatically increases the opportunities available for beneficiaries, their families and their communities by helping to create a socially-conscious and skilled society for the future. Through the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills, many young adults have learned to express themselves through means other than conflict.

This work was recently further underpinned with a renewed MoU between AMAR and UNESCO ensuring that all education projects delivered by AMAR adhere to UNESCO’s values and standards of professional practice. This helps to support the constant delivery of high quality teaching. In 2013 AMAR began a new project in partnership with UNESCO targeting thousands of out-of-school children.

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION

AMAR has a long-standing relationship with WHO dating back to the 1990s when AMAR and
WHO first signed an MoU covering the values and standards of professional practice in a development context. Since this time, AMAR has maintained this important relationship through an LoU signed in 2008, and continues to look to WHO to ensure professional levels of service delivery across all AMAR health projects to achieve desired health outcomes.

THE WORLD BANK

AMAR’s partnership with the World Bank has centred on public health care in Iraq. The World Bank provided funding to increase the capacity of Primary Health Care Centres, mobile health clinics for rural communities, professional training for medical staff and an integrated Women Health Volunteer programme. Through this funding, preventative health care initiatives were developed based around high-quality health education in schools and the community, targeting long-term behavioural change. This is in accordance with the vision of the World Bank to create a stable and healthy Iraq which will help reduce poverty and support development.

UNFPA

AMAR has worked with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Iraq since 2006 to improve the reproductive health of women in underprivileged communities. Project funding from UNFPA allows AMAR to train medical professionals at the primary health care level, health education volunteers and traditional birth attendants in order to provide antenatal, natal and postnatal support for remote communities in the Iraqi Marshlands.

UNDP

AMAR works with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Iraq to help combat the threat from drug-resistant TB through the use of community health education events and community health volunteers to raise awareness about the disease. Targeting TB, one of the fastest-growing health threats in the region, offers long term health benefits, especially in communities who have had little information or access to care for the disease.

"Allow me to commend you for your longstanding commitment to providing education, health care, clean water and other essential services to populations affected by conflicts, especially in Iraq and other countries in great need. UNESCO is proud of the association it has long enjoyed with your Foundation... At a time of such deep transformations, showing continuity in our support is more important than ever to giving people hope for their futures."

Irina Bokova,

Director-General of UNESCO

letter to Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne,

14 January 2013.

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/about-us/who-we-are/director-general/