Organisations

Information and Research Centre at the King Hussein Foundation (IRC)

Jordan

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PO BOX 941096
11194 Amman

IRCs mission is to inform the positive development of policies and programmes affecting the human development of Jordanians through their different life-cycles as children, teenagers, youth, adults and elderly. Their main objectives are to become a focal point for the data and information needed to form a comprehensive profile on human development in Jordan and to achieve accreditation for producing high quality policy research. It is affiliated with Chapin Hall Centre for Child Research at the University of Chicago, USA. The resource centre is open to the public

Centre for Educational Development / Jordan University

Jordan

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Zip No 11942

The CED aims to provide in-service training courses for teaching and administrative staff, to design and produce teaching/learning materials in a variety of formats, to organise and implement training courses for health workers in a wider range of professional specialities, to provide health literature and information using medicine and Internet, to promote community health, and to provide IT support to teaching and learning at the University. The CED resource centre is open to the public.

Jordan Civil Society Program

Jordan

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P.O. Box 1252
Amman 11821
Jordan

"The USAID Civic Initiatives Support Program (USAID CIS) aims at cultivating a strong and vibrant civil society in Jordan through supporting a broad range of civic initiatives. Working at both national and local levels, it supports civic initiatives and advocacy responding to common interests, strengthens the organizational capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) and promotes Government of Jordan-civil society collaboration efforts to address reform and development challenges"