His Excellency the Secretary General of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, Prof. Koutoub Moustapha Sano, held the thirtieth weekly meeting of the directors of the Academy’s Departments on Monday 21 Ramadan 1442 corresponding to May 03, 2021, where His Excellency opened the meeting by welcoming the attendees, then spoke about the programs and activities of the strategic plan and the need to start implementing its contents after organizing and arranging them according to the specialization of each department, indicating that the coordinating department is responsible for the implementation and carrying out of the tasks of coordination with the rest of the departments participating in the given activity. His Excellency also called on all departments to make more effort to implement this strategic plan, stressing in this regard that the annual evaluation of departmental performance will be carried out according to the activities and programs accomplished in relevance to this plan.

The meeting then discussed in detail the coordination tasks entrusted to each department, and the meeting issued a number of decisions, notably:

• Placing the electronic versions of the book of the fourth edition of the Academy’s decisions and recommendations, the Academy’s strategic plan, and the monthly newsletter on the Academy’s website to enable researchers and scholars to benefit from them.
• To start sending the call for papers to researchers, provided that the invitation includes an outline of the themes and the methodological requirements to be followed when preparing the research, as well as indicating the due date for receiving the papers.
• Preparing a database for university faculty staff inside and outside the headquarters country, taking into account the approved geographical distribution of the member states of the OIC, in order to send to them the call for papers for the upcoming twenty fifth Annual Session of the Academy.