Qatar Foundation and ILO partner to help shape future of Qatar’s workforce

Doha, Qatar: A new partnership designed to produce evidence based insights that help to guide the future development of Qatar s workforce has been for...

Doha, Qatar: A new partnership designed to produce evidence-based insights that help to guide the future development of Qatar’s workforce has been formed between Qatar Foundation and the International Labour Organisation.

Data and findings from Qatar Foundation’s (QF) Alumni Impact Study – a large-scale survey tracking employment outcomes, career trajectories, and perceptions of graduates from QF’s universities over the past 25 years – and other labour market-related studies will be used by QF and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to develop five co-authored policy briefs.

briefs – representing the first formal publication initiative between QF and the ILO since the establishment of the ILO Project Office in Qatar in 2018 – will result in policy-focused insights for the nation’s decision-makers, providing recommendations that support Qatar’s human capital development goals.

The five areas that will be addressed through the partnership are bridging skills gaps and mismatches between alumni and employers; national talent retention; the extent to which Qatar’s higher education system supports entrepreneurship; how higher education in Qatar can better align with the needs of the labour market; and how to advance gender equality and inclusive employment in Qatar.

The partnership was formalised through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between QF and the ILO during the recent WISE 12 Summit in Doha, hosted by QF’s global education initiative WISE.