What this guide is for
Your authority launches its own public-private partnership (PPP) program for the land, utilities, tourism and industrial estates of its region, with a lab for small PPPs and an open door to direct proposals.
The case
Regional authorities hold the plan, the land and the licenses
A region grows when its land is serviced, its utilities are reliable and its investors can get an answer in one place. Regional development authorities hold the master plan, the land and the licenses for their territory, so the way they prepare projects sets the pace for everything built inside it. This guide invites regional development authorities in Jordan to launch a PPP program of their own, starting with the projects at home.
The guide
Build the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity into Jordan’s regions
Your authority launches a dedicated PPP program, with a PPP unit, a master plan of projects that private partners can finance, build and operate, a lab for small PPPs and an open door to direct proposals, starting with Jordan’s $86 billion of projects and the $46 billion anchored in Aqaba.
01
A PPP unit inside the authority
A small dedicated team that knows how PPPs are prepared, procured and supervised turns the region’s master plan into projects that private partners can finance, build and operate, and it follows each one from the first market sounding to the end of the concession.
02
The master plan as a pipeline
The authority marks which roads, utilities, visitor services, housing and industrial estates in its master plan private partners will deliver, and it offers each one with serviced land, licenses and a clear output specification.
03
Utilities, tourism and estates as PPPs
Water, wastewater, waste, power and telecom networks, visitor centers, transport inside heritage sites, hotels on public land and ready-built industrial estates can each be tendered as a PPP, with a partner paid for the service it delivers.
04
An open door to direct proposals
Article 15 of PPP Law No. 19 of 2023 lets a company bring its own PPP idea to a public authority, and PPP Regulation No. 9 of 2024 sets out how it is assessed. The authority publishes what its region needs and studies the ideas that answer them on their merits.
05
A regional lab and small PPPs
The authority tenders a PPP research lab that runs small pilots inside its territory, and 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 under simpler procedures.
Why regional development authorities
Regional authorities hold the plan, the land and the licenses
A PPP needs a defined need, land to build on, licenses to proceed and a public partner that stays for decades. A regional development authority holds all four inside its territory, which makes it one of the fastest places in Jordan to prepare a project and supervise it on live data.
Where regional authorities fit in a PPP
- Master plan
- Land use, zoning and phasing that decide which projects the region needs and where they go.
- Land
- Serviced public land that a partner can lease for a utility, a visitor service or an industrial estate.
- Licensing
- Permits and approvals through one authority, which set how quickly a partner can build.
- Tender
- Prequalification, bid evaluation and negotiation with the consortiums that compete for the contract.
- Supervision
- Measurement of service levels across the region and payment to each partner for its results.
Jordan already runs its regions this way
The Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority was created by Law No. 32 of 2000 and is run by a six-member Board of Commissioners, with its own regulations for zoning, land and the development of Wadi Rum. The Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority was created by Law No. 15 of 2009, the Jordan Valley Authority has led the valley’s development since 1977, and the Investment Environment Law No. 21 of 2022 places the development zones under the Ministry of Investment.
Why a program, and why now
Without a program, each PPP in a region is a one-off and the authority relearns the process every time. A program gives it a team, standard documents, a lab that tests new ideas on its own land and a clear route for proposals. The regions that prepare their projects now will host the largest share of the $86 billion of projects in development.
Futureproofing
Futureproof Regional Development Authorities in Jordan 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 sit inside a region that a single authority plans, licenses and supervises for decades. An authority that proves a model on one project in its region can repeat it across its whole territory.
- $86B
- of PPP and infrastructure projects in development in Jordan
- $46B
- of them anchored in Aqaba
Artificial intelligence
AI lets a regional authority plan and run its territory as one system. A digital twin of the region joins land use, utilities, visitor flows and traffic, so each PPP is sized to forecast demand and priced on evidence. A small PPP unit can also draft output specifications, compare bids on whole-life cost and read every contract in its region in plain language.
Robotics
Robotics changes what a regional authority can ask for in a tender. Output specifications can require drone surveys of land and heritage sites, robotic inspection of pipes and roads and automated records of maintenance, so performance is measured by machines and reported as data. A region that writes these requirements in receives assets that cost less to supervise.
Tokenization
Tokenization lets the people of a region own part of what is built there. A utility, a visitor center or an industrial estate can raise part of its capital from a few hundred local and regional investors and pay them from its own revenue, and a public registry can record each contract, milestone and payment for everyone to see.
Small PPPs and research labs
A regional authority suits a PPP research lab, because it holds land, licenses and services in one territory. It can tender its own lab, pilot smart utilities, visitor services or robotic inspection on its own sites, collect the data from each pilot and carry what works into the large projects, while every published failure teaches the other regions too.
Unsolicited proposals
Direct proposals bring a regional authority ideas from companies that know its land and its visitors, prepared at their own cost. The authority can charge the proposer a study fee for each review and a qualifying proposal enters the PPP Registry, while the tender still tests the idea against the market: the proposer can match the best offer, and the winning bidder pays the proposer’s direct study costs.
The program
How the program could work
The program can sit inside the authority’s planning and investment departments, with a PPP unit at its center and the master plan, land and licenses the authority already holds behind it.
- PPP unit
- A small team of planning, technical, legal, financial and procurement staff that prepares, tenders and supervises the region’s PPPs.
- Master plan
- A phased plan that marks which roads, utilities, visitor services and estates private partners will deliver.
- Utilities
- Water, wastewater, waste, power and telecom networks delivered as PPPs, with long-term prices offered to users.
- Tourism and estates
- Visitor centers, site transport, hotels on public land and ready-built industrial estates developed with private partners.
- Smart region
- A digital twin of the region, with sensors, drones and robotic inspection written into every contract.
- Lab and proposals
- A research lab tendered as a PPP, a clear route for proposals under Article 15 and small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million bundled into one tender.
- Partners
- Working links with ministries, municipalities, lenders, universities, investors and the companies that bid.
What the authority gains
The authority gains infrastructure ahead of demand without carrying all of the capital itself, partners who share the risk of each phase and investors who receive one clear answer. Each project adds standard documents, data and staff who know how to run the next one, and each pilot in the lab shows what works before the large projects commit to it.
It also gains a place at the front of how regions grow. The first authorities in the region to run on a digital twin, welcome direct proposals and prepare their projects for AI, robotics and tokenization will set the standard that other regions follow.
Next steps
How a regional authority can start
Any regional development authority in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the master plan, land, licenses and staff the authority already has.
01
Mandate
A decision by the board to launch a PPP program, with its sectors, its first projects and its first-year goals.
02
Team
A named program lead, with planning, technical, legal, financial and procurement staff drawn from existing departments.
03
Pipeline
A list of the region’s planned projects by stage, set beside Jordan’s $86 billion of projects to find the ones inside its territory.
04
Land
A register of public plots and corridors that suit PPPs, with their zoning, services and licensing status.
05
Partners
Ministries, municipalities, lenders, investors and the companies that will bid for the lab and propose new projects.
06
Pilot
A first small-scale PPP or direct proposal in the region, taken from idea to tender.
Jordan has the projects, authorities that plan and license whole regions and a law that accepts unsolicited proposals. A PPP program gives your authority the team, the lab and the pipeline to grow its region at the pace of its investors and to lead the superintelligent infrastructure future from the public side.
The full document
Inside this guide
Seventeen pages and thirteen chapters, from the case for a PPP program to the first steps, written for regional development authorities in Jordan.
- 17
- pages
- 13
- chapters
- 3
- technologies
- 6
- first steps
01Introduction
Why a century of infrastructure needs rebuilding, and the $500 trillion it will take.
Page 3 of 17
02The guide
Build the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity into Jordan’s regions
Page 5 of 17
03Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
Page 6 of 17
04Artificial intelligence
How AI designs, structures and runs PPP projects, and what it means for regional development authorities.
Page 7 of 17
05Robotics
How robots build infrastructure and keep it running, and what that means for regional development authorities.
Page 8 of 17
06Tokenization
How tokenization funds projects from their own revenue, and the role it opens for regional development authorities.
Page 9 of 17
07Small PPPs in parallel
Why many small PPPs teach a country faster than a few large ones.
Page 10 of 17
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.
Page 12 of 17
10Why regional development authorities
Regional authorities hold the plan, the land and the licenses
Page 13 of 17
11The program
The program can sit inside the authority’s planning and investment departments, with a PPP unit at its center and the master plan, land and licenses the authority already holds behind it.
Page 14 of 17
12About
About Jordan PPP and what it offers.
Page 15 of 17
13Next steps
How a regional authority can start: six first steps.
Page 16 of 17
Questions
Questions about the guide for Regional Development Authorities in Jordan
- What does the guide for Regional Development Authorities in Jordan propose?
- Your authority launches its own public-private partnership (PPP) program for the land, utilities, tourism and industrial estates of its region, with a lab for small PPPs and an open door to direct proposals.
- Why should regional development authorities in Jordan launch a PPP program?
- Regional authorities hold the plan, the land and the licenses. A PPP needs a defined need, land to build on, licenses to proceed and a public partner that stays for decades. A regional development authority holds all four inside its territory, which makes it one of the fastest places in Jordan to prepare a project and supervise it on live data.
- Which PPP projects can regional development authorities in Jordan 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 sit inside a region that a single authority plans, licenses and supervises for decades. An authority that proves a model on one project in its region can repeat it across its whole territory.
- How can regional development authorities in Jordan start a PPP program?
- Any regional development authority in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the master plan, land, licenses and staff the authority already has. The guide sets out six first steps: mandate, team, pipeline, land, partners and pilot.
- What does a PPP program give regional development authorities in Jordan?
- The authority gains infrastructure ahead of demand without carrying all of the capital itself, partners who share the risk of each phase and investors who receive one clear answer. Each project adds standard documents, data and staff who know how to run the next one, and each pilot in the lab shows what works before the large projects commit to it.
- Is the guide for Regional Development Authorities in Jordan 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.
Guide 9 of 95
Browse all 95 guides