Amman, Institute of Public Administration (IPA) and Kuwait’s Arab Planning Institute (API) on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), aimed to enhancing joint coordination and cooperation between the two sides.
The MoU was signed by IPA’s Director General, Siham Khawaldeh, and API Chairman, Bader Othman Malallah.
The memo aims to deepen cooperation in the fields of capacity-building, training and consultations, to support Jordan’s development efforts, given the API’s expertise in various fields and its available technical and administrative workforce.
Khawaldeh said MoU is “qualitative” and is in line with IPA’s endeavor to expand its foreign and local partnerships with the public and private sectors, to enrich the training and administrative process, improve IPA’s outcomes and learn about and benefit from other countries’ expertise.
For his part, Malallah appreciated the importance of joint cooperation, expressing willingness to provide support to Jordan and deemed this memo a path for cooperation in multiple fields.
Malallah reviewed aspects of API’s interest, primarily enhancing development planning policies, economic diversification and strategies, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which are the basis of any national economy.
Reviewing a set of proposals, such as training trainers for SME, he noted API has a special center called the regional Small and Medium Enterprises center.
For his part, Civil Service Bureau (CSB) head, Sameh Nasser, valued cooperation with Kuwait, as API has a “long” expertise in various fields at Arab level, lauding coordination of the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation to launch such partnerships.
He noted this memo begins ” greater cooperation,” especially in light of the continuous endeavor to implement the Royal vision to modernize Jordan’s economic system, referring to importance of entrepreneurship and efforts to employ workforce in the Arab markets.
He called on maintaining this cooperation based on the “solid” Jordanian-Kuwaiti relations.
Based on the memo, the first program on “Institutional Support for Small and Medium Enterprises” was inaugurated.
Source: Jordan News Agency