25 Feb 2024

HM King’s Special Representative chairs Isa Award for Service to Humanity meeting

Manama, Feb. 25 (BNA):

His Highness Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, Special Representative of His Majesty the King, and Chairman of the Isa Award for Service to Humanity Board of Trustees, chaired the eight meeting of the fourth session of the award 2022-2025.

Shaikh Khalid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, Deputy Prime Minister, attended the meeting.

The meeting reviewed the memoranda included in the agenda items and reviewed the proposal to form an arbitration committee for the sixth session (2024-2025) submitted by the General Secretariat.

Council members expressed their appreciation for the General Secretariat’s proposal and requested that the circle of arbitrators be expanded to include international members.

The meeting reviewed the details of the media plan which has been proposed by the National Contact Centre (NCC) for global promotion of the Award.

 They also discussed the memorandum on the formation of a field taskforce to contribute to the nomination process and broaden its scale.

The members commended the taskforce’s efforts in identifying and contacting individuals and organisations serving humanitarian causes worldwide.