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The Arab Gulf
Program for United Nations Development
Organizations (AGFUND) is a non-profit
regional organization founded in 1980,
upon the initiative of His Royal
Highness Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz Al
Saud, President of AGFUND, and with the
generous support of leaders of the Arab Gulf
States, that are active contributing
members.
AGFUND aims to support human development
efforts, including fighting poverty,
promoting education, improving health
standards, supporting institutional
structures and the training of personnel, as
well as all development efforts geared
toward the neediest groups in developing
countries, especially women and children.
Since its inception, AGFUND took part in
financing 1242 projects in 133 countries,
without discrimination on account of color,
race, creed or political affiliation.
AGFUND believes that ensuring the
sustainability of the desired development
requires a sincere and determined will.
Working to that end, AGFUND is focused on
human beings, stemming from its conviction
that to invest in human beings is to invest
in the future.
AGFUND established a number of major
projects, namely: the Arab Open University,
and the Arab Network for NGOs, the Center of
Arab Women for Training and Research, the
Arab Council for Childhood and Development,
the Arab Family Health Project, the Arab
Strategy for Early Childhood Development,
and the Banks for the Poor.
Proceeding from the conviction that the
spread of knowledge among workers in the
area of development would promote the
exchange of experiences and support, the
development of better methodologies of
addressing the complex problems of poverty,
social exclusion, and socio-economic
marginalization of vulnerable groups, AGFUND
set up the AGFUND International Prize for
Pioneering Development Projects", to
stimulate workers in the various areas,
discover the best development projects, and
honor those in charge of them, hoping that
the creative aspects involved therein would
motivate the implementation of similar
projects in other regions.
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