Bahrain Ngos Submitted Tender

Head of NGO Affairs at the Ministry of Labor and Social Development Dr. Latifa Ali Al-Mannai said that 62 NGOs submitted 88 development projects for the financial grants program at its eleventh session in 2019 to win the financial support provided by the NGO Social Work Fund. Bahraini organizations and civil advancing the ideas of distinctive and innovative development projects that meet the aspirations of the Bahraini society where he began the National Center for NGO support of the Ministry of audit and sort of advanced projects to ensure compliance with the focus of financial grants program for this session and who cared Focus on development projects responsive to the needs of women and gender balance in cooperation with the Supreme Council for Women.Al-Mannai pointed out that the development projects submitted by civil society organizations registered under the umbrella of the Ministry of Labor and Social Development for this year included 51 long-term development projects 37 short-term development projects pointing out that the NGOs responded to the ministrys call to focus in its projects on The needs of women and gender balance where the number of projects applied for the grant directly targeting women 39 projects while projects involving women as one of the target groups 13 projects.Mannai noted that the advanced projects will be evaluated by a technical committee composed of academics specialized in the evaluation and management of development projects at the University of Bahrain according to the main axis of the current session and the Ministry has assigned it to do this role to ensure objectivity and good distribution of financial grants on development projects designed And plan it professionally.Al-Mannai stated that the National Center for NGO Support has organized in cooperation with the Supreme Council for Women a dialogue meeting on the financial grants program for 2019 with the participation and attendance of a number of NGOs in order to provide a detailed explanation on the concept of womens needs and how to benefit from development projects in the gender balance. These projects provided by associations meet the needs of women.The Head of NGO Affairs affirmed the Ministrys keenness on the continuation of the financial grants program which has been a success since its launch in 2005 through the decision No. 46 establishing the National Social Action Fund to finance the developmental projects of the NGOs. These organizations contribute financially to the development projects that provide an effective and tangible addition to the developmental balance of the society which contributes to enhancing competition between NGOs and transparency in the provision of government support noting in this regard the role of the private sector in supporting the Labor Fund. For National Social which includes a number of commercial banks and investment companies.