![]() Specific projects include: a Solar Enabled Smart Campus at King Hussein Business Park, an Integrated Clean Energy and Solid Waste Management Solution in the Dead Sea Development Zone, Irbid Clean Energy Pilot with an Industrial Focus at El Hassan Industrial Estate, and a pilot of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Amman. Transformative Clean Technology pilot projects boost to sector development and will unlock hurdles facing the private sector – USAID JCP has formalized strategic partnerships that will showcase key program objectives, and contribute to pushing reforms for an improved enabling environment that will create up to 1,300 new jobs in the Clean Technology sector. Research & Development (R&D): increase the efficacy of the process from R&D through commercialization to capture innovation.Access to Finance: increase access to finance by creating awareness, developing programs to build capacity of firms to offer and access financing, and supporting the development of innovative public private partnerships (PPPs) to create new sources of financing.Workforce Development: improve workforce readiness in targeted clusters through an approach that strengthens Career Development Centers, establishes Centers of Excellence, and creates internships and training programs.Supportive Enabling Environment: pursue policy and regulatory reform that will enable the private sector to be more competitive and innovative While each of these sectors has its own challenges and complications, JCP’s experience demonstrates that sector competitiveness can be increased through an integrated approach that leverages four program approaches: Project overviewĪs a result of comprehensive diagnostic analyses, a development strategy was created that focused on three opportunity sectors: Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Clean Technology (CT) and Healthcare and Life Sciences (HLS). With its comprehensive sector development strategies, the Program anticipates achieving three goals: 40,000 new jobs, $700 million in foreign direct investment, and a 25 percent average increase in exports in targeted sectors. Learning from the successes of past programs and their limitations, USAID JCP is taking a more focused approach across fewer sectors to create a real competitive advantage for Jordan. ![]() The USAID Jordan Competitiveness Program (USAID JCP) is designed to advance competitiveness in select knowledge economy sectors and, in doing so, generate employment, foreign direct investment and exports. HM King Abdullah II and members of his delegation at the Plug and Play start-up accelerator in Silicon Valley. ![]()
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