Tamkeen Hosts ‘Community Partnership’ Event to Meet with Local NGOs

As part of its Community Engagement initiative, Tamkeen has organised a “Community Partnership” event, where it reviewed gains of its partnership with local community organisations and briefed them on its strategy for the next stage.

The event was attended by representatives of a group of local organisations from the Kingdom’s various governorates. 

Tamkeen launched the initiative in 2013, seeking to consolidate relations between all segments of Bahrain’s society and raise awareness about Tamkeen’s services and programmes, granting citizens easy access to these opportunities and empowering them to achieve prosperity and contribute to the national economy.

On this occasion, Tamkeen Chief Operating Officer Amal Al Kooheji expressed gratitude for the great efforts exerted by local community organisations, particularly their role in advancing professional, training and living standards in local communities.

Al Kooheji said: “Through this important initiative, we hope to build a direct and solid relation with all local community organisations. This would help us directly communicate with these NGOs, respond to their special needs, enhance our services through various support programmes, promote awareness about them, and encourage everyone to take advantage of them.”

She added: “Since the inception of the Community Engagement initiative in September 2013, more than 200 local events were organised and over 60 visits to cities and village were made, which have contributed to serving 9,300 clients.  We have greatly benefited from the valuable views and observations received, particularly in reviewing and redesigning our programmes, which were relaunched in late 2014 to best fit the needs of all target segments.”

Al Kooheji commended Tamkeen’s representatives, saying: “The essence of this initiative is about the belief in serving the society. Available in all the Kingdom’s governorates and representing a number of regions (cities and villages), those representatives were nominated by local community organisations in their respective local areas. The representatives work as a link between Tamkeen and their areas, to answer general queries and update residents on Tamkeen’s latest developments and programmes. They also make the necessary arrangements to hold Tamkeen’s activities in their local areas.”

The success of the Community Engagement initiative would not have been possible without local community organisations’ contributions. The Community Partnership event allows Tamkeen to introduce its local representatives, review its partnership gains with the society, present its community engagement strategy for the next stage and advance to achieve community partnership.