What this guide is for
Your organization launches a PPP program that turns Ajloun’s forests, heritage and towns into public-private partnerships (PPPs) it can prepare, bid for, build, finance or operate, starting with the tourism, farming and services it already works in.
The case
Ajloun’s organizations can build the place they work in
Ajloun’s largest projects have mostly been decided and financed elsewhere, and most of the governorate’s organizations have watched them from the outside. The projects of the next fifty years will be prepared, built and run by many organizations at once, and the ones that start their own programs now will own a share of the place they work in. This guide invites organizations in Ajloun to launch a PPP program, starting with the projects at home.
The guide
Make Ajloun a green model for the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
Your organization opens a dedicated PPP program, a team and a set of offers that take part in Ajloun’s tourism, forestry, farming, water, energy and town projects around its castle, forests and farms, as part of Jordan’s $86 billion of projects.
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An Ajloun PPP team
A dedicated team that knows how PPPs are prepared, procured and financed follows every project in Ajloun from the first market sounding and decides early where the organization can prepare, bid, build, finance or operate.
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A place in the governorate’s consortia
Municipalities, nature lodges, farmers, contractors, universities and local investors join the consortia that bid for Ajloun’s projects, bringing the land, the knowledge of the forest and the local workforce that outside partners need.
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Projects around the forest and the castle
Visitor services at Ajloun Castle and the cable car, nature lodges, forest care, olive processing, water and solar power all depend on each other in Ajloun. An organization that understands those links can shape projects that serve several at once.
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Ajloun-led direct proposals
Jordan’s PPP Law No. 19 of 2023 accepts direct private proposals under Article 15. An organization in Ajloun can design a project around a need it sees every day, such as an olive press, a cold store for fruit, a visitor shuttle or a rainwater harvesting network, and propose it with partners who finance and build it.
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Pilots as small-scale PPPs
PPP Regulation No. 9 of 2024 defines small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million, which can be bundled into one feasibility report and one tender. A small concession in Ajloun gives the organization a live asset, a reference and a place in the larger projects that follow.
Why organizations in Ajloun
Ajloun’s organizations can build the place they work in
Ajloun holds Ajloun Castle, the Ajloun Forest Reserve, a cable car and a growing eco-tourism trade, a short drive from Jerash, Irbid and Amman. Each new project depends on the organizations already working there, and each one can make them partners in what is built.
Where organizations in Ajloun fit in a PPP
- Preparation
- Local data, land and needs that shape projects the governorate can use and investors can finance.
- Tender
- Places in consortia beside international developers, contractors and operators.
- Financial close
- Equity, land contributions and local investors beside the banks and funds.
- Operation
- Operators, guides, service firms and a workforce that run the asset in Ajloun for decades.
- Exit
- Stakes that local and national investors can buy, including tokenized notes.
One place, many linked projects
Ajloun Castle, the cable car, the forest reserve, nature lodges and trails, olive and fruit farms, water, roads and the services of its towns all sit within a short drive of each other in Ajloun. A project in one of them changes the demand for the others, which gives organizations that see the whole governorate an advantage in shaping the next one.
Why a program, and why now
The cable car has brought new visitors to Ajloun, and its first tourism and farming projects are taking shape. A program gives an organization in Ajloun a team, a pipeline and partners, and the first organizations to join will help set the standards the rest of the governorate follows.
Futureproofing
Futureproof Organizations in Ajloun for the infrastructure singularity
This free 17-page guide shows how, with small PPPs in parallel, PPP research labs, artificial intelligence, robotics, tokenization and six first steps.
Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
Many of them will reach governorates like Ajloun and need local partners to build and run them. An organization that delivers one PPP in Ajloun can carry the same team to the next project across Jordan’s governorates.
- $86B
- of PPP and infrastructure projects in development in Jordan
- $46B
- of them anchored in Aqaba
Artificial intelligence
AI fits Ajloun’s forests and farms first. It can spot fire risk and tree disease from drone images, forecast olive and fruit harvests and plan visitor flows to the castle, the reserve and the cable car. An organization in Ajloun can bring those tools into every concession it joins and use the same data to find the next project worth proposing.
Robotics
Forests, hills and orchards are hard places to work by hand. Drones can watch the forest for fire and pests, sorting lines and harvest machines can help olive and fruit farmers and inspection robots can keep pipes and roads in shape. The organizations that run them will need Jordanian technicians trained in Ajloun to operate and maintain them.
Tokenization
Tokenization lets the people and companies of Ajloun own a share of the projects around them. An organization can offer tokenized stakes in a nature lodge, an olive press or a solar plant to local and national investors, pay them from the asset’s own revenue and keep the governorate’s savings working at home.
Small PPPs and research labs
Ajloun is small enough to test a new idea quickly and close enough to Jordan’s largest cities to prove it. An organization in Ajloun can host a PPP research lab, run pilots on its own land and assets and publish every result, so the pilots that work in Ajloun become models for the rest of Jordan.
Unsolicited proposals
A direct proposal lets an organization in Ajloun bring a project built around a need it knows better than anyone, from an olive press to a service for visitors to the forest. It can propose the project as its own, protect the ideas behind it and keep the right to match the best offer at tender.
The program
How the program could work
The program can sit inside the organization’s strategy or business development team, with a PPP lead at its center and offers built from what the organization already owns and runs in Ajloun.
- PPP team
- A small team of business, technical, legal and finance people that covers every PPP in Ajloun from the first market sounding.
- Pipeline
- A map of Ajloun’s projects by sector and stage, and the ones that fit the organization’s land, assets and skills.
- Consortia
- Partnerships with developers, contractors, operators and banks bidding for Ajloun’s projects.
- Local supply
- Services, staff, land and produce the organization can offer every concession in the governorate.
- Direct proposals
- Projects proposed under Article 15 around needs the organization sees in Ajloun every day.
- Pilots
- Small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million that build a track record on live assets in Ajloun.
- Partners
- Agreements with the governorate’s municipalities, public bodies, universities, investors and other organizations in Ajloun.
What the organization gains
The organization gains contracts and revenue that last as long as the concessions it joins, a bigger role in the governorate it already works in and a reference it can carry to every other project in Jordan.
It also gains a voice in how Ajloun grows. The organizations that help prepare, build and run the governorate’s first AI, robotics and tokenized PPPs will shape its forests, farms and towns for the next fifty years.
Next steps
How an organization in Ajloun can start
Any organization in Ajloun can take this guide forward. The first steps use the land, assets, people and partners the organization already has.
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Mandate
Board or management approval for an Ajloun PPP program, with its sectors, its role and its first-year goals.
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Team
A named program lead, with business, technical, legal and finance people drawn from the organization’s existing teams.
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Pipeline
A map of Ajloun’s projects by sector and stage, and early meetings with the authorities, municipalities and developers behind them.
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Offer
The land, assets, services and local workforce the organization can bring to a consortium, packaged into one offer.
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Partners
Developers, contractors, operators, banks and other organizations in Ajloun ready to bid together.
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Pilot
A first consortium bid, small concession or direct proposal in Ajloun, taken from idea to submission.
Ajloun has the castle, the forest, the farms and the visitors, and Jordan has a law that lets an organization propose its own. A PPP program puts your organization at the center of how the superintelligent infrastructure future arrives in Ajloun.
The full document
Inside this guide
Seventeen pages and thirteen chapters, from the case for a PPP program to the first steps, written for organizations in Ajloun.
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01Introduction
Why a century of infrastructure needs rebuilding, and the $500 trillion it will take.
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02The guide
Make Ajloun a green model for the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
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03Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
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04Artificial intelligence
How AI designs, structures and runs PPP projects, and what it means for organizations in Ajloun.
Page 7 of 17
05Robotics
How robots build infrastructure and keep it running, and what that means for organizations in Ajloun.
Page 8 of 17
06Tokenization
How tokenization funds projects from their own revenue, and the role it opens for organizations in Ajloun.
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07Small PPPs in parallel
Why many small PPPs teach a country faster than a few large ones.
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08PPP research labs
A lab in each sector, running ten small PPP projects a year.
Page 11 of 17
09Unsolicited proposals
How Jordan’s PPP law accepts direct proposals from private companies.
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10Why organizations in Ajloun
Ajloun’s organizations can build the place they work in
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11The program
The program can sit inside the organization’s strategy or business development team, with a PPP lead at its center and offers built from what the organization already owns and runs in Ajloun.
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12About
About Jordan PPP and what it offers.
Page 15 of 17
13Next steps
How an organization in Ajloun can start: six first steps.
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Questions
Questions about the guide for Organizations in Ajloun
- What does the guide for Organizations in Ajloun propose?
- Your organization launches a PPP program that turns Ajloun’s forests, heritage and towns into public-private partnerships (PPPs) it can prepare, bid for, build, finance or operate, starting with the tourism, farming and services it already works in.
- Why should organizations in Ajloun launch a PPP program?
- Ajloun’s organizations can build the place they work in. Ajloun holds Ajloun Castle, the Ajloun Forest Reserve, a cable car and a growing eco-tourism trade, a short drive from Jerash, Irbid and Amman. Each new project depends on the organizations already working there, and each one can make them partners in what is built.
- Which PPP projects can organizations in Ajloun take part in?
- Jordan has about $86 billion of PPP and infrastructure projects in development, $46 billion of them anchored in Aqaba. Many of them will reach governorates like Ajloun and need local partners to build and run them. An organization that delivers one PPP in Ajloun can carry the same team to the next project across Jordan’s governorates.
- How can organizations in Ajloun start a PPP program?
- Any organization in Ajloun can take this guide forward. The first steps use the land, assets, people and partners the organization already has. The guide sets out six first steps: mandate, team, pipeline, offer, partners and pilot.
- What does a PPP program give organizations in Ajloun?
- The organization gains contracts and revenue that last as long as the concessions it joins, a bigger role in the governorate it already works in and a reference it can carry to every other project in Jordan.
- Is the guide for Organizations in Ajloun free?
- Yes. It is free to read on this page and free to download as a 17-page PDF, with the case for a PPP program, Jordan’s pipeline, the role of AI, robotics and tokenization, the program and six first steps.
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