On Thursday, 19 September 2013, at Four Seasons Hotel, the advanced five-day training course (15-19 September) in the project management field came to its end. The course was attended by managers and staff from Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Economy and Trade, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, and the Supreme Council for  Family Affairs, in addition to the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics. This course was held as a follow-up to the first course, which was held in June on the subject of project management, and came as part of efforts to build human capacity, and as a result of cooperation between the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics and the Institute of Administrative Development. The course’s theme was building the capacity of state employees in the area of projects management, especially projects of the National Development Strategy (NDS), and how to use project management tools and techniques and their application in practice, according to the Qatar National Project Management (QNPM) .At the end of the course, Mr. Hamad Rashid Al-Athaba, Head of NDS 2011-2016 Management Office  in the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics, and Mrs. Amnah Al-Motawah, Training Manager  in the Institute of Administrative Development, distributed certificates to the participants.It is worth mentioning that the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics signed agreements of understanding with a number of universities and specialized institutes to implement capacity-building programs that ensure efficient implementation of the plans and strategies to achieve the aspirations and objectives of Qatar National Vision 2030. Thus, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) take the lead to hold courses that serve this goal, and the most recent of these initiatives was an advanced course for leaders in project management, which was held on 11 -13 June.