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In 2016 Islamic Relief's Humanitarian Academy for Development (HAD) approached Dr Susannah Pickering-Saqqa, University of East London to undertake programmes on seven of their Domestic Programmes (DPs) in Canada, Germany, Malaysia, South Africa, Sweden, UK and USA. This programmes provides an external perspective on the extent and scope of these seven programmes. It maps and analyses the implementation challenges facing them, possible areas for future expansion, collaboration potentials within the Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) network and future resourcing options. It also considers how the DPs challenge donor, staff and Generation M perceptions of IRW's mission and zakat eligibility. The report concludes [...]

Islamic Relief Academy We have a team of specialist trainers with decades of experience in projects management and emergency response. The academy provided face to face and online training courses to a wide range of very diverse aid works in more than 40 countries. Our e-learning programme currently gives learners access to more than 250 online courses. Following the success of the Management Development Programme (MDP), the academy designed and started rolling out training of the most promising Results Based Management (RBM), this programme focus on diverting the aid work from the activity based approach to measure the effective and impact [...]

Leadership as a topic can be studied from many different viewpoints including political military, social, religious or corporate. This paper aims to provide scholars with an analysis of religious perspective on corporate and social leadership. This paper focuses on Qur’anic scripture in relation to the qualities of leaders from an Islamic viewpoint and the scripture’s applicability to contemporary views on leadership. This work further examines leadership and its importance and growing role in the culturally diverse global economy. The intensification of debate between civilisations with divergent views on a plethora of issues has placed a spotlight on Islam and prompted a [...]

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is often systematically used as a ‘weapon of war’ and may be physical, sexual, psychological, economic, or socio-cultural in nature and be perpetrated in public or private settings. Itis associated with increased instances of sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, unintended pregnancies, Gynaecological problems, induced abortions, and adverse pregnancy outcomes including miscarriage, low birth weight, and foetal death. Women are often disempowered by exploitation, rape, the threat of rape, domestic violence, HIV infection, trauma, and disabilities resulting from violence. Literature on sexual violence in armed conflict indicates that rape and violence against women and girls [...]

To those hoping to enter paradise, and those who fear leaving behind young children, we put forward some facts about the conditions of the Muslim children who slept without a roof over their head and no guardian to look after them. They call upon you in desperation to help them. Hardcopy Available upon Request Citation Islamic Relief. (1986). Orphan and Widow Sponsorship Committee.

Abu Hurayrah (RA) narrated that the Prophet (S): “Every day two angels come down from Heaven; one of them says ‘O Allah! Compensate every person who spends in Your cause.’ The other angel says ‘O Allah! Destroy every miser’ (Bukhari) Hardcopy Available upon Request Citation Islamic Relief. (1986). Orphans, Widows & Destitutes

Literature on sexual violence in armed conflict indicates that rape and violence against women (VAW) prior to, during, and after conflict is extensive in scope and magnitude. Violence is often systematically used as a ‘weapon of war’ and may be physical, sexual, psychological, economic, or socio-cultural in nature and be perpetrated in private or public settings. Gender-based violence (GBV) is associated with increasing instances of sexually transmitted infections such as HIV, unintended pregnancies, gynaecological problems, induced abortions, and adverse pregnancy outcomes, including miscarriage, low birth weight, and foetal death. Women are often disempowered by exploitation, rape, the threat of rape, domestic [...]

Evening of Inspiration Background Islamic Relief has been working closely with the local community for the past 20 years. As one of the oldest and largest Muslim organisations in the UK, Islamic Relief has been at the forefront or organising local and national community events. Events organised include the Islamic Relief Games and ‘Islam, Love and Peace’ which was the UK’s first Islamic concert tour in 1998. Building on the success of our previous events, a series of concerts are planned to provide an alternative Islamic form of entertainment to our community, celebrate Islamic Relief’s 20th anniversary, raise awareness of Islamic [...]

  The world today is beset by a new phenomenon to create a world in which religion is excluded from the major role it has always played in the expansion of civilisation. Few can deny the importance of religion throughout history and throughout human development. One can go so far as to say that without religious codes society would not have developed at the rapid successful pace at which it has and all the things we today take for granted would have been luxuries in which we would still be aspiring. Hardcopy Available Upon Request Citation Dr Hany El Banna. (2004). [...]

  This year Islamic Relief was invited to the United Nations Headquarters in New York for a seminar discussing Islamophobia and confronting intolerance. I was asked to be one of the panel speakers and proceeded to prepare a lengthy speech which tackled this thorny subject. A few days before I went to New York, however, I began to think about a second shorter speech would could be delivered instead of the longer one which I intended to hand out to the delegates. Hardcopy Available upon Request Citation Dr Hany El Banna. (2004). “Positivophobia”. Speech delivered at the United Nations Headquarters in [...]