Al Jidara is a leading development consulting company that provides governments, the private sector, NGOs/CBOs and international organizations with economic, development, and management consulting services. Founded in Jordan in 1994, with the vision to become the partner of choice for growing economies in the Middle East, and with offices in Jordan, Palestine, United Arab Emirates and the United States, Al Jidara prides itself for building strong, long-term relationships with its clients, and bringing experience, commitment, and results to every engagement. Al Jidara has a proven track record of development work funded by donor organizations including USAID, UN Women (Previously UNIFEM), the ILO, etc.
Al Jidara has played a key role in a number of critical development programs including the Jordan Economic Development Program (SABEQ), Local Governance Development Program (LGDP), USAID Community Engagement Project (CEP), and most recently the USAID Jordan Gender Program (Takamol), and the USAID Fiscal Reform and Public Financial Management (FRPFM) currently being implemented. A major focus of these programs is on local economic development, local governance, community engagement, capacity building, gender, social dialogue, public financial management, and communications/outreach.
Al Jidara has professionally served a wide range of local and international institutions and investors for two decades. They have developed significant and even unmatched experience in being the local counterpart for internationally funded projects, both long and short term, aimed at economic development. Their experience extends to a large number of areas and strategic economic sectors including: Workforce Development; Community Development; Local Governance; Gender Empowerment and Mainstreaming; Private Sector and MSME Development; Policy Development; and Organizational Effectiveness.
Their cross-sectoral experience includes Research and Analysis; Training and Human Resource Development and Planning; Sector and Feasibility Studies; Privatization; Strategy Development; and Program Evaluation.
Al Jidara has experience in formulating workforce development policies and strategies within the context of local and national economic development programs and initiatives. It also supports institutional development and capacity building efforts aimed at improving employment prospects and business start-up.
Al Jidara supports vulnerable and disadvantaged areas to build stronger and more resilient communities, by empowering individuals and social institutions. Al Jidara facilitates a participatory grassroots approach to local governance and decision-making, with the aim of engaging stakeholders, prioritizing needs, executing projects, and instituting accountability measures.
Al Jidara is experienced in devising development strategies using participatory approaches to stimulate community mobilization in addition to formulating PPP scenarios. Al Jidara offers distinctive capabilities in Local Development Strategies, Socioeconomic Impact Assessment, Community Mobilization, MSME Development and Support, Municipal Services, and Capacity Building.
Al Jidara played a key role in critical multiyear development programs, including the current USAID Jordan Gender Project (Takamol). Through these programs, Al Jidara developed and implemented tools to empower women economically, socially, culturally, and politically in order to help them overcome challenges they face in accessing and benefiting from varied resources.
Al Jidara works on supporting growth and development within the overall context of enhancing the competitiveness of the private sector at the cluster, sector and firm levels. Their experience spans across supporting the establishment of a government body to monitor the competitiveness of varied sectors; facilitating access to international markets; stimulating MSME lending; building the capacity of MSMEs, and initiating business planning processes through training and mentorship interventions; and providing MSMEs with skills and advisory support to develop strategic thinking and business planning.
Strengthening the management of central government administration by implementing robust and enforceable procedures to improve policy development and decision making mechanisms. Developing institutional mechanisms for quality decision-making that expedite strategic and operational decisions, evaluate options systematically, and ensure decisions are implemented, tracked, and monitored.
Enabling organizations to improve their competitiveness, optimize their performance, and enhance service delivery through market and competitiveness analysis, optimization of the human capital, streamlining internal processes, improving service efficiency and transparency, and implementing organizational performance management systems. This is achieved by applying a deep understanding of the local context and the regulatory framework, and utilizing best practices and tools in business process management and organizational restructuring.
