Humanitarian and relief
Launch a PPP program for Jordanian NGOs and Charities
A free 17-page guide · The $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
What this guide is for
Your organization launches a public-private partnership (PPP) program that puts its community trust and its charitable funds behind small infrastructure projects in the neighborhoods it serves, in water, energy, schools and health.
The case
Charities hold the trust that every community project needs
Jordanian NGOs and charities know their communities better than anyone, and Jordanians give generously through them every year. Most of that giving covers urgent needs one at a time. Placed behind small PPPs, part of it can build assets that serve a neighborhood for decades, with a private partner that invests, builds and operates. This guide invites Jordanian NGOs and charities to launch a PPP program, starting with the communities they serve.
The guide
Bring the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity to Jordan’s neighborhoods
Your organization launches a dedicated PPP program, with a small team, a list of neighborhood projects and a set of partnerships that turn charitable funds into lasting infrastructure, beside Jordan’s $86 billion of projects and the $46 billion anchored in Aqaba.
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A community PPP team
A small team learns how PPPs are prepared and tendered and turns the needs the organization sees every day into small projects that a private partner can finance, build and operate with the local contracting authority.
02
Small PPPs in neighborhoods
Solar roofs on schools and community buildings, water storage and networks, clinic upgrades, waste collection and community centers can each be delivered as a small PPP, with a partner paid for the service it delivers.
03
Charitable finance
Endowments and charitable funds can provide land, first-loss capital or service payments for projects that serve people in need, under the rules that govern each fund, so each gift keeps working for years.
04
Community trust and monitoring
The organization brings what private partners lack: trust, volunteers and daily contact with families. It can sit inside each project as the partner that checks service levels and listens to residents.
05
A community lab
The organization backs a PPP research lab with a one-line brief to run ten small PPP projects a year at up to $100,000 each, such as solar for low-income homes or water-saving retrofits, and it publishes every result, including the failures.
Why NGOs and charities
Charities hold the trust that every community project needs
Jordanian NGOs and charities reach families that few others reach, and they channel a large share of the country’s giving. That trust and that giving can carry small infrastructure projects that serve communities for decades.
Where charities fit in a PPP
- Needs
- Daily knowledge of which families and neighborhoods lack water, power, schooling or care.
- Funds
- Charitable funds that can provide land, first-loss capital or service payments.
- Trust
- Relationships that help a project win community support from the first day.
- Delivery
- Volunteers and staff who work alongside the private partner in the neighborhood.
- Monitoring
- Independent checks on service levels and the families each project reaches.
What changes for charities
AI, robotics and tokenization make small community projects worth doing. Preparation that once cost too much for a solar roof or a water tank can be done by a small team with the right tools, sensors measure each service as it is delivered, and tokenization lets many givers and investors fund a project together and share in its revenue.
Why a program, and why now
Without a program, each project is funded as a one-off and the lessons rarely reach the next one. A program gives the organization a team, standard partnerships and a list of projects that can move to market one after another, and the organizations that start now will learn fastest.
Futureproofing
Futureproof Jordanian NGOs and Charities 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 serve neighborhoods where Jordanian charities already work and will need the trust and local knowledge those charities hold. A community project proven in one neighborhood can be repeated across the country, and other charities can adopt the same model.
- $86B
- of PPP and infrastructure projects in development in Jordan
- $46B
- of them anchored in Aqaba
Artificial intelligence
AI lets a small charity plan and supervise projects that once needed outside advisors. It can map needs household by household, draft a feasibility report for a solar roof or a water network, compare bids and read every contract in plain language, and once a service is running it shows donors exactly what their money achieved.
Robotics
Robotics brings maintenance within reach of small local partners. Drones survey roofs and water tanks, sensors find leaks and failing equipment, and automated cleaning keeps solar panels producing, so a small team can keep many community assets running and every donor can see the record.
Tokenization
Tokenization lets many people own a share of the assets their community needs. A solar roof or a water network that earns a steady payment can raise its capital from hundreds of Jordanians at home and abroad, and pay them from its own revenue, with every result recorded on a public registry.
Small PPPs and research labs
Charities already work in small pieces: a family, a street, a school. A community lab can test solar for low-income homes or water-saving retrofits on a few streets, publish every result and carry what works across the country, funded by placing part of each year’s giving behind pilots that last.
Unsolicited proposals
Direct proposals let private companies bring ideas for community infrastructure to government, prepared at their own cost. A charity can partner with a company that proposes, bringing community support and funding commitments that strengthen the proposal at review. A qualifying proposal enters the PPP Registry, the proposer can match the best offer at tender and the winning bidder pays the proposer’s direct study costs.
The program
How the program could work
The program can sit beside the organization’s community programs, with a PPP lead at its center and its funds, volunteers and relationships behind it.
- PPP team
- A small team of engineering, legal, finance and program staff that prepares projects with the local contracting authorities.
- Project list
- Solar roofs, water storage and networks, clinics, schools, waste and community centers, ranked by need and readiness.
- Funding rules
- Clear rules for how charitable funds can back each project as land, capital or service payments.
- Bundling
- Similar projects below $14.1 million bundled into one feasibility report and one tender.
- Community lab
- A PPP research lab that runs ten small pilots a year at up to $100,000 each and publishes every result.
- Monitoring
- Community feedback and service measurement built into every project.
- Partners
- Municipalities, contracting authorities, banks, companies, universities and other charities.
What the organization gains
The organization gains assets that keep serving people long after each gift is spent, private investment in projects it could not fund alone and partners paid for the results they deliver. Each project adds contracts, data and trained staff that make the next one faster.
It also gains a new way to show givers what their money builds. The first Jordanian charities to put community trust and charitable finance behind small PPPs will become the models that charities across the region follow.
Next steps
How a charity can start
Any Jordanian NGO or charity can take this guide forward. The first steps use the staff, funds and community relationships it already has.
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Mandate
Board approval for a PPP program, with its communities, its first projects and its first-year goals.
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Team
A named program lead, with engineering, legal, finance and program staff drawn from the organization’s existing teams.
03
Pipeline
A list of neighborhood needs that suit small PPPs, and early meetings with the municipalities and authorities that own the assets.
04
Own offer
The funds, land, trust and monitoring the organization can bring to each project, set out under the rules of each fund.
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Partners
Local companies, banks, universities and other charities that will build, finance, measure and share results.
06
Pilot
A first small-scale PPP or community lab pilot, taken from idea to tender.
Jordan has the projects, a law that accepts unsolicited proposals and rules that make small PPPs simpler to tender. A PPP program gives your organization a way to turn giving into lasting infrastructure and a head start in building the superintelligent infrastructure future in the neighborhoods it serves.
The full document
Inside this guide
Seventeen pages and thirteen sections, from the case for a PPP program to the first steps, written for Jordanian NGOs and charities.
Download the guide (PDF)
- 01IntroductionWhy a century of infrastructure needs rebuilding, and the $500 trillion it will take.p. 3
- 02The guideBring the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity to Jordan’s neighborhoodsp. 5
- 03Jordan and AqabaAn $86 billion pipeline to start withp. 6
- 04Artificial intelligenceHow AI designs, structures and runs PPP projects, and what it means for NGOs and charities.p. 7
- 05RoboticsHow robots build infrastructure and keep it running, and what that means for NGOs and charities.p. 8
- 06TokenizationHow tokenization funds projects from their own revenue, and the role it opens for NGOs and charities.p. 9
- 07Small PPPs in parallelWhy many small PPPs teach a country faster than a few large ones.p. 10
- 08PPP research labsA lab in each sector, running ten small PPP projects a year.p. 11
- 09Unsolicited proposalsHow Jordan’s PPP law accepts direct proposals from private companies.p. 12
- 10Why NGOs and charitiesCharities hold the trust that every community project needsp. 13
- 11The programThe program can sit beside the organization’s community programs, with a PPP lead at its center and its funds, volunteers and relationships behind it.p. 14
- 12AboutAbout Jordan PPP and what it offers.p. 15
- 13Next stepsHow a charity can start: six first steps.p. 16
Questions
Questions about the guide for Jordanian NGOs and Charities
- What does the guide for Jordanian NGOs and Charities propose?
- Your organization launches a public-private partnership (PPP) program that puts its community trust and its charitable funds behind small infrastructure projects in the neighborhoods it serves, in water, energy, schools and health.
- Why should Jordanian NGOs and charities launch a PPP program?
- Charities hold the trust that every community project needs. Jordanian NGOs and charities reach families that few others reach, and they channel a large share of the country’s giving. That trust and that giving can carry small infrastructure projects that serve communities for decades.
- Which PPP projects can Jordanian NGOs and charities 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 serve neighborhoods where Jordanian charities already work and will need the trust and local knowledge those charities hold. A community project proven in one neighborhood can be repeated across the country, and other charities can adopt the same model.
- How can Jordanian NGOs and charities start a PPP program?
- Any Jordanian NGO or charity can take this guide forward. The first steps use the staff, funds and community relationships it already has. The guide sets out six first steps: mandate, team, pipeline, own offer, partners and pilot.
- What does a PPP program give Jordanian NGOs and charities?
- The organization gains assets that keep serving people long after each gift is spent, private investment in projects it could not fund alone and partners paid for the results they deliver. Each project adds contracts, data and trained staff that make the next one faster.
- Is the guide for Jordanian NGOs and Charities 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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