Director General: Dr. Essa M. Al-Ghazali

 

Deputy Director General: Dr. Ali Abdel Gadir Ali

In 1966, the Government of Kuwait in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), established according to the five-year agreement signed between the two parties, the Kuwait Institute for Economic and Social Planning in the Middle East as an independent Kuwaiti Institute. In 1972, at the end of the five-year term, the Institute was converted into an independent Arab Institution called the Arab Planning Institute (API) - Kuwait. The five-year agreement signed between the member governments of the Institute and the UNDP limited the role of the UN to providing a number of international experts in addition to a number of fellowships. In 1980, the contribution of the UNDP ended, and the Arab member countries declared the API an independent, regional and non-profit Arab Institution .

 

Currently, the Institute includes most of the Arab countries as members. Its membership, according to the API's establishing agreements, is to remain open to other Arab countries wishing to become members. The API will, nonetheless, pursue its policy of rendering services to all Arab countries regardless of membership status.

 

The API's main objectives are to:

• Provide the necessary knowledge-based and experimential skills that will empower Arab countries to keep pace with the cutting edge of Development, Economic Management and Planning.
• Facilitate the process of research and data retrieval for Arab decision- makers and researchers.
• Increase the quality of studies and research skills of those specializing in Development, Economic Management and Planning, in the Arab Countries.
• Create an Arab cadre of multi-level specialists in the areas of Economic and Social Development.
• Establish a venue for experts to meet and exchange ideas about important economic and social development issues for the Arab countries.
• Generate specialized publications and data bases related to the economic and social development in the Arab countries.

Member countries (16): Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Emirates, Yemen, Palestine.

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