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Qatar's Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs is the government body responsible for mosque administration, zakat collection and distribution, and the registration and investment of waqf endowment assets, three functions a smaller Gulf state has chosen to run through one ministry rather than three separate agencies with three separate reporting lines.
The endowment side of that mandate runs through a dedicated General Directorate of Endowments, which administers several distinct funds rather than a single pool of assets, including the Al Birr and Taqwa Endowment Fund and Waqf Al Wuqoof, each apparently serving its own donors and purposes within the wider waqf system the Directorate oversees on the Ministry's behalf.
The Ministry publishes periodic outcomes reports summarizing its zakat, endowment and religious outreach activity together, a format that lets a reader see the Ministry's religious-charitable and religious-administrative work side by side in one document rather than piecing it together from separate mosque, zakat and endowment disclosures issued at different times by different offices across the government.