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Amman Institute for Urban Development 2009 ANNUAL REPORT

I N D E P E N D E N T . G L O B A L T H I N K I N G . A D A P T E D L O C A L LY

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CONTENTS

Letter from the Chairman ...........................................................................................1

1 . Where we Started From ............................................................2

Introduction .....................................................................................................3Key Highlights 2008 – 2009 ...........................................................................4Genesis of the Institute ..................................................................................4Our Mission ......................................................................................................5Our Vision .........................................................................................................5Our Values ........................................................................................................5

2. Empowering Communities to Excel ..........................................6

Our Tri-Sector Focus ........................................................................................7Multi- Delivery Strategy ...................................................................................7List of Projects .............................................................................................................8Projects of Highlight ........................................................................................10

3. An Institution to Last .................................................................12

Ai’s top institutional achievements: ...............................................................13Our Human Resources .....................................................................................13Our Project Management Office (PMO)...........................................................13

4. The People Who Make it Possible ...........................................14

Board of Directors ..........................................................................................15Partners ............................................................................................................15Our Senior Managment ............................................................................................17Our Staff ..........................................................................................................20

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LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN

The Amman Institute (Ai) grew out of the award winning Amman Master Plan which resulted in many re-quests to help others achieve similar success, both in Jordan and abroad,

One of the special outcomes of the Amman Plan was the team that was built, consisting mostly of Jordanian talent, some who came home from abroad to help in this challenge…reversing Jordan’s brain drain. The Ai has institutionalized this team and tasked it with a special mission to ‘…share its knowledge to empower communities to excel!’

The Ai is now active in many communities in Jordan, and has been requested to become engaged in Pales-tine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia. Ai is venturing into these jurisdictions with care and has developed the region’s first Planning for Smart Growth training program that is now offered in Arabic to plan-ners throughout the region.

Perhaps one of the biggest impacts the Ai has had in its short history is a commitment to engage citizens in community planning and development. This was best exemplified by the many community forums that have been held throughout Jordan attracting thousands of citizens, including corporate citizens to participate in planning the future of their communities. One special incident stands out, where one of the first of over 500 Irbid citizens to arrive at their community forum was a blind citizen wanting to contribute to the vision of his community.

The Ai has also expanded the scope of its services beyond planning to include providing research and ad-visory services in the areas of governance and sustainable development, which are required to ensure the successful implementation of the community plans the Ai develops. This includes tackling such issues as organizational and institutional reform, transparency in governance, and climate change.

One of Ai’s unique commitments is to the children of communities, with a focus of re-enforcing citizenship and civic responsibility into the future generation of our community leaders. Considering that over half of Jordan’s population is under the age of 25, a focus on children and youth is strategic to help in the develop-ment of the country.

Thank you for your interest in the Amman Institute, and I invite you to find out more by connecting to www.ammaninstitute.org

Sincerely,

Mayor Omar Maani

Chairman

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1 WHERE WE STARTED FROM

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INTRODUCTION Home grown with an eye on the region, the Amman Institute is a not-for-profit institution that aspires to oper-ate as an international center of excellence in urban governance, community planning and development, and sustainable development in Jordan and the region.

Established by the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), the Institute operates not only to serve GAM, but also to advance the work in the urban governance at the local and national levels, tackling issues of land management, physical planning, public policy, and city leadership, among others. The Institute believes in global thinking that is adapted locally to suit the needs of the citizens, and to reflect their visions and aspira-tions. No more foreign versions implanted from top-down with disregard to our context, the Institute seeks to understand the locale and operate within its sphere whilst expanding it under its own rules to create suc-cess stories in urban governance.

But then what triggered the creation of such an entity traces two years back to the Amman Plan, an initiative undertaken by GAM for planning the growth of the city through 2025. During such a visionary and coura-geous initiative that seeks to instrument the city’s growth, a valuable human resource foundation has been formed due to such an endeavor. A team of Jordanian and international experts has established a critical mass of talent. Amman Institute aims at drawing from the pool of experts to prevent such a base from dis-solving with the eventual conclusion of the Amman Plan. Moreover, the Institute is reversing the brain drain and contributing to the building of a knowledge economy by retaining and attracting back professional Jorda-nians in the field.

Amman Institute provides its advisory services in community planning, sustainable development, and in urban governance. However, Ai’s mandate is much larger than advisory services. The Institute aspires to play a critical role in shaping the discourse of urban governance and planning, which is just rapidly emerging in Jordan and the region. Publication, translation of seminal works, intellectual debates, executive training in both hard skills and soft ones, outreach initiatives to the public in general and to the children in particular, are among many other programs that are being initiated by the Institute, to set the bar really high.

This Annual Report covers the first operating period of the Amman Institute extending from its inception in June 2008 to December 2009

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS 2008 – 2009The year 2008 marked the Amman Institute’s first year as a registered non-profit organization. Established in June 2008, the Ai has made significant progress in identifying itself as a national think-and do-tank and independent advisor and advocate focused on sustainable community development applied through citizen-centered governance. Within eighteen months, Ai has made measurable advancement in institutionalizing itself as well as in delivering in major projects and working towards initiating new ones.

• JD 6.4 million value of contracts

• 61 staff members hired, one third with postgraduate degrees

• 33 Average age of staff

• 61% of staff are women

• 14 Jordanian and International Interns

• Many Public Forums Bringing Together Thousands of Minds

• Active Web Presence, including soft launch of MapJo.com

• 15 Completed Projects

• 24 Ongoing Projects

• Many Project Prospects in the Pipeline, including international projects

• Collaboration with such world leading research institutions as: Columbia University, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, University of California at Berkeley, and the World Bank Institute

• Announcement of Ai as a WorldBank Urban Regional Knowledge Hub

GENESIS OF THE INSTITUTE Ai was Established in June 2008, as a Not for Profit Think-and-Do-Tank, and an independent advisor and ad-vocate for the community it works with. Ai focuses on sustainable community development applied through citizen centered governance. It grew out of the Amman Master Plan, an initiative that won international recognition with the winning of the World Leadership Award for Town Planning in 2007.

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OUR MISSIONThe mission of the Institute has been set clear: Empowering Arab Communities to Excel through Indepen-dent global thinking adapted and applied locally, and implemented through citizen centered governance.

Ai is envisaged as a regional knowledge hub that retains, builds and incubates local talent, develops and shares knowledge capital that empowers Arab centers to build sustainable communities.

Ai aims to achieve its mission through the attraction and detainment of an interdisciplinary team of Jordani-ans who are believers in change, and in their role in advancing their county and region. Our team represents an array of focus on issues including urban governance, community development, land use planning, trans-portation, etc. Our aim is to attract, develop and retain knowledge competent specialists, therefore graduat-ing a number of Jordanian specialists in all areas of urban governance.

OUR VISIONEstablish a Regional Knowledge Hub that retains, builds & incubates talent, develops & shares knowledge capital that empowers Arab centers to build sustainable communities

OUR VALUESAi has established a clear set of values, through a series of sessions with its staff and affiliates. These val-ues reflect all what Ai is about, and they are:

• An Independent & Professional Voice in our fields of endeavor

• Excellence in what we deliver

• Honesty & Integrity in the way we undertake our work

• Team work & Collaboration in the way we work within the organization and with our stakeholders

• Freely Sharing our knowledge to empower others

• Value of Diversity as a means to strengthen the organization and the solutions we develop

• Building Capacity by encouraging continuing learning for our employees and acting as an incubator to build capacity within the broader community

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2 EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES TO EXCEL

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Ai aspires to achieve its mission through a tri-sector focus that covers a breadth of specialties that relate to urban sustainable development and urban governance. Ai is building itself as an incubator for a local know-how in these fields that is based on international best practices and models.

OUR TRI-SECTOR FOCUS • Community Planning

• Urban planning

• Regulatory Reform (i.e. Zoning Modernization)

• Urban design

• Sustainable Development (SD)

• Climate Change Clean Development Mechanisms

• Community Economic Development

• Governance

• Institutional reform

• Organizational reform

• Participatory governance

• Citizen centered service delivery

MULTI- DELIVERY STRATEGY Ai adopts a multi- delivery strategy that is based on one or more of the following components:

• Advisory Services – Technical Assistance, where Ai provides technical independent advice in its areas of focus. Ai in this case plays the role of the consultant. Clients of Ai include both central and local governments as well as private sector.

• Capacity Building, where Ai provides educational and training services, focusing on professionals, and in the form of classical training courses that have different modules and approaches, as well as hands on training through the daily work with staff from partner institutions.

• Outreach, where Ai demonstrates its role as a community advocate, facilitating awareness and eventu-ally furnishing the involvement of different stakeholders in the decision making process.

• Research, where Ai undertakes applied research that relates to its areas of expertise, in order to bet-ter inform the decision making process of the different stakeholders.

Governance

Sustainable Development

Community planning

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Advisory Services with the Ministry of Municipal Affairs (MOMA Program)

Irbid Master Plan May 2010Russeifah & New Birin Growth Strategy May 2010Shafa Balqa Growth Strategy May 2010Salt Master Plan May 2010Mahes Master Plan May 2010Fuhais Master Plan May 2010

Adviroy Services with the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM Program)

Plan for King Abdullah – Mecca Special Planning Area December 2009 MGP - Organizational Chart June 2009 MGP - Servicing TOR December 2009 Area Plans May 2009 Ras AL Ain & Mughabalin community plans December 2009Airport Road community plans December 2009 Design of Abdoun Capital Parkway On going Design Support and Socio-Economic Analysis for Urban Strip On going Downtown Redevelopment Plan Strategy On going Zoning On going Interim Heritage District Regulation for Ahyaa Amman project August 2009 Support to project review within GAM December 2009 Initial Work on GAM Affordable Housing Model On going Work on Real Estate Investment in the Urban Strip and Capital Parkway Ongoing

Applied Research

Strategies for Segregating Bus and Car Traffic in Amman December 2009 Amman Real Estate Market Report 2010 March 2009 Investigation Work on Property Tax Valuation Model for Amman April 2009 Translation of Corrupt Cities June 2009

Ai LIST OF PROJECTS

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Community Outreach

Youth Forum February 2009

Forum on Transparency in Urban Governance June 2009

20 minutes in Amman January 2010

Ai website and Knowledge Hub Ongoing

Amman Model and Resource Center Ongoing

MapJo On going

Children's Map March 2010

Children's Book Ongoing

Children's Corner Ongoing

Children's Box Ongoing

Fellowship Program Ongoing

Internship Program Ongoing

Training and Capacity Building

Transport Impact Study Feb 2009

Community Organizing and Public Narrative with Marshall Ganz , Harvard June 2010

Planning for Smart Growth On going

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PROJECTS OF HIGHLIGHT

National Capital Parkway

The Capital Parkway is one of Amman City’s key corridor develop-ments and one of the key enablers to the Amman Masterplan. Given the essential aspects of implementing the project, GAM took the initiative of directly gearing the development and acquiring essential land parcels from the private sector. Currently GAM is spearheading the development of approximately 380 dunums (Net developable area directly owned by GAM), with major clusters dedi-cated for institutional uses. These institutional clusters are legal, financial, educational and service clusters with over 40 public enti-ties and departments planned to be incubated within the capital parkway project.

Amman Real Estate Market Report

The Amman Real Estate Market Report is an independent assess-ment of the real estate market in Amman. It provides a comprehen-sive analysis of real estate trends in the Amman Metropolitan Area. The Real Estate Market Report has been prepared as a guide for investors, financial institutions, consultants, construction indus-tries, real estate brokers and developers, the intent is to provide up-to-date, detailed and accurate information to help decision mak-ers with their investment decisions.

Corrupt Cities

As part of its ongoing citizen outreach programs, and its objective to promote transparency in urban governance, Ai has translated the book “Corrupt Cities- A practical Guide to Cure and Prevention”, Written by: R. Klitgaard, R. Maclean-Abaroa, and H. L. Parris. The official launch of the Arabic version of the book took place as part of the “US-Arab Mayors Forum”, which was held in Amman in honor of Amman Centennial “100 years of urban governance”.

Amman Downtown Plan and Revitalization Strategy

The Amman Downtown Development Plan and Revitalization Strat-egy will guide the development of Downtown Amman for the next 20 years and beyond. The Plan lays out a vision for the Downtown’s future and in doing so; the Plan provides downtown Amman with a context for its investments, a continuity of improvements, and a consistency in its efforts toward integrating planning, with the goal of creating a critical mass of activity in the downtown.

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Planning For Smart Growth

This is an intensive urban planning training module that focuses on the unorthodox approach to contemporary planning practice in Jordan and the MENA region. The core objective of the course is to introduce participants to the contemporary discourse on sustainable smart urban growth. It attempts to form a sound and multi-informed understanding of these concepts employing di-verse training tools, different channels of information and various mechanisms; such that it demonstrates the realization of abstract concepts using actual, hands on, practical planning model projects that have been undertaken by the Amman Institute in Jordan and the region. The course is designed to cater to the needs of civil servants currently involved in the practice of urban planning, urban governance and management, professionals who are intending to participate in the direction of urban development projects, growth strategies and steering of plan implementation processes in addi-tion to interested students.

Leadership, Organizing and Action

(Ai) hosted Marshall Ganz, a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, to engage a section of the Jordanian community with community building and organizing through physical training and a public event titled, “People, Leadership and Change”. Acting as a contributor to the discourse of community activism within the Jordanian society and the region, Ai has organized this event with the hopes of empowering the community leaders. Furthermore, this event was aimed at engaging civic organizations and focused on initiating citizens to act and induce social change within their com-munities.

To know more about these projects & more, please visit our website at www.ammaninstitute.org

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3 AN INSTITUTION TO LAST

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As was established as an In-stitution to last for decades to come, and to flourish through the region rather than to dimin-ish with time. Therefore, there has been a special focus on the “institutional infrastructure” of Ai, insuring that there is a set of processes and systems set up, which would ensure the sus-tainability of the organization.

Ai’S TOP INSTITUTIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS: • Staffing and recruitment of key positions: The Ai staff grew to reach 61 staff members with an average

age of 33 years, ranging from fresh graduates to those who served with the sector for more than 20 years. 30% of all staff members hold post graduate degrees.

• Initiating the work on capacity building for Ai staff through formal and informal training and through repre-sentation in conferences and meetings.

• Defining a corporate identity for the Ai , including an interactive web presence.

• Facilitating the way for partnerships with many local and international institutions, including the Ministry of Mu-nicipal Affairs, World Bank Institute, the Jordan Engineers Association, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the University of California in Berkeley.

• Initiating an Internship Program for local and interna-tional talent and the establishment of a Fellowship Pro-gram to attract international researchers to the Institute.

OUR HUMAN RESOURCES• Ai continued to grow to accommodate 61 staff members as of December 2009, out of three that were

employed in June 2008.

• Ai has put in place employee evaluation system that includes regular evaluation, annual evaluation, and 360 Reviews for senior management.

• Ai has embarked on a major international and regional recruitment campaign to bolster its pool of re-sources.

OUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO)• Ai established an advanced PMO with soft launch of the year 2009, and full implementation for the year

2010.

• Ai completed PMP training for nine of its staff members and three partner staff members from GAM and MOMA.

Ai GLOBAL MAP

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THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT POSSIBLE

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Ai has started and flourished due to the clear vision, hard work and tremendous support from many in-dividuals and institutions who be-lieved in Ai and in what it has to of-fer to Jordan and to the region. The circle of Ai includes its Board of Di-rectors chaired by the Mayor of Am-man, its partner institutions and the tremendous teams they accommo-date, and Ai’s staff and associates, who are the real assets of Ai.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ai’s Board of Directors has five members, and is chaired by HE Omar Maani, Mayor of Amman. The composi-tion of the Board of Directors reflects the interdisciplinary approach in a tri-sector focus that AI has estab-lished

BOARD MEMBERSH.E. Eng Omar Maani, Mayor of Amman, Greater Amman Municipality

H.E. Eng Ammar Gharaibeh, City Manager, Greater Amman Municipality

H.E. Dr. Omar Razzaz, General Manager, Social Security Corporation

H.E. Eng Sami Halaseh, Secretary General, Ministry of Public Works and Housing

H.E. Eng Imad Fakhouri, Chief Executive Officer, Aqaba Development Corporation

H.E. Eng Khaled Irani, Minister, Ministry of Environment

H.E. Eng Shehadeh Abu Hudeib, Minister, Ministry of Municipal Affairs

PARTNERSIt is through our partners that Ai was able to reach where it is now. Those partners are clients, consultants, or peers of Ai where the present relationship is expected to flourish.

World Bank and World Bank Institute

Negotiations with the World Bank are undergoing in order to proceed with activating the role of Ai as the World Bank Regional Knowledge Hub for the MENA region. In November 2009, the Chairman participated in the World Bank meeting in Singapore, during which the announcement

Work with the World Bank Institute commenced with the translation of the Corrupt Cities and the forum that Ai organized on transparency in urban governance with Ronald McLain Aboroa.

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Greater Amman Municipality

GAM is the sole shareholder of Ai and its Board of Directors is chaired by the Mayor of Amman.

At the same time, GAM is a major client for Ai, where the latter provides professional services to the former through a Master Service Agreement that was signed in 2008. Ai so far has completed two contracts with GAM that valued JD 4.7M.

Through these contracts, Ai has established a progressive and open working relationship with the Master Plan team at GAM, where many projects are run hand and hand by team members from both parties. This is a cornerstone for Ai work and its mission; building local capacities at partner institutions that would guaran-tee the continuation of the work on the long run. Ai hopes to strengthen this working relationship with the expanding Planning Department at GAM.

Ministry of Municipal Affairs

The Ministry of Municipal Affairs is the second largest client for Ai, with contract that was signed in February 2008 for a duration of 16 months and a value of JD 2.265M. Ai has worked with tens of staff members at the ministry as well as the different municipalities that benefited from the work.

UC Berkeley Institute for Transportation Studies

Ai signed an MoU with the Institute for Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, which has been recognized for more than 6o years as one of the world’s leading centers for transporta-tion research, education and scholarship. Ai and ITS developed a document that details the three types of activities covered under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Amman Institute (AI) the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at UC Berkeley. These consist of research projects, internships and student visits, and training. Under this MoU, the ITS has conducted an applied research project about Strate-gies for Segregating Bus and Car Traffic in Amman.

planning Alliance

planningAlliance is one of the leading firms in urban design and planning. Based in Toronto, pA has been involved in the Amman Plan since 2006and has been a major consultant to Ai in both Amman Plan and the MOMA projects. The partnership model with pA has been based in nurturing local capacities through working with pA senior experts in the various fields. With time, and as local capacities has been built and strengthened, reliance on pA has been decreasing, which is a milestone that is to be celebrated.

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OUR SENIOR MANAGMENT

ABEER SAHEB

MARIA RABADI

HANIA MARAQA

MARAH AL-KHAYYAT

GERRY POST

Gerry Post, Founder/ General ManagerGerry is currently in charge of the overall management of the Amman Institute. He has been involved in the Amman 2025 Plan since its inception in 2006.

Gerry has over 30 years of experience in Urban Management. He has worked in more than a dozen coun-tries advising both governments and the private sector in the areas of urban planning & development; housing, land management-including GIS, property taxation and land titling; environmental management, and public sector reform.

Gerry received several awards including the Nova Scotia (Canada) Export Growth Award and the Award for Innovation in environmental management presented by the Consulting Engineers Association of Canada.

Gerry holds a degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Ryerson Polytechnic University in Canada. He is a registered Professional Planner and a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners.

Hania Maraqa, Vice President for Research & OutreachHania was the Amman 2025 Plan Project Manager, Senior Planner Advisor to the Amman 2025 Plan initiative since 2007 working on the Corridor Intensification Strategy and Industrial Lands Policy. She was also engaged in the outreach program of the Plan.

Hania’s past work experience has been as Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the Built Environment, based in Jordan. She has also worked with SM Dudin Architects and Engineers in Amman, Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation in Boston, and Ziad Akel and Partners in Beirut.

Hania has been the recipient of several awards including the American Institute of Architects award, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Executive Education Scholarship for Leadership in the 21st Cen-tury, the Fulbright Scholarship, and the Fulbright Development Grant, and the Carroll Wilson Award.

Hania holds a Master’s degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a focus on international development and regional planning, a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Arizona at Tucson with a concentration in housing and community development, and a Bach-elor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Jordan.

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Abeer Saheb, Director of Planning ProjectsAbeer also assumes the management of the Amman Plan program.

Abeer has over twenty years of professional experience, most of which was in the field of urban planning and development. She worked in various capacities at the Housing and Urban Development Corporation HUDC. Abeer also spent two years working at the Jordanian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities as the Planning Director of the Technical Development Directorate. Major part of her work at the Ministry involved tourism products development, historic cities rehabilitation, city management, and local authorities and communi-ties’ capacity building and development.

In 2006, Abeer undertook a consultancy assignment with the United Nations Agency, UNRWA as the project coordinator of the Shelter Rehabilitation Project in the refugee camps of Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.

In addition to working in the public sector, Abeer worked as a freelancer on urban and architectural design, landscaping, physical planning and urban studies. In 2007, as a private consultant, she assumed the re-sponsibility of the deputy team leader of the Amman Development Corridor Strategic Master Plan Study.

Abeer holds a B.Sc. degree in Architectural Engineering from Jordan University, and a M.Sc. degree in Urban Planning from Lund University (Sweden) and the IHS, Erasmus University (the Netherlands). She also re-ceived the Hubert H. Humphrey Award, where she completed a one year professional development program in urban planning and development at Rutgers University, NJ, United States, and an affiliation with the World Bank.

Marah Al Khayyat, Program ManagerMarah has held many senior positions at different government agencies, including Planning and Develop-ment Director of the Technical Development Department at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and Di-rector of Projects’ Studies Directorate and Head of Studies Section at the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDC). During her 17 years of work at HUDC, Marah was engaged in numerous multi-disciplin-ary projects in urban planning and development, with a focus on low income housing and urban squatters in Jordan.

Marah was also involved in the evaluation and documentation study of the East Wehdat Upgrading Project, which received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1992.

Marah holds an MBA and a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Jordan.

Maria Rabadi, Director of ProjectsMaria also worked on the Sustainable Model Housing Community, Abdoun Capital Parkway and the Amman Resource Center as part of the Amman 2025 Plan.

Maria was the Amman Commission Manager at the Greater Amman Municipality from 2005-2008 where she managed various development projects of the city, regeneration of special sites, and the creation of model public spaces in the City of Amman. These urban regeneration projects included Raghdan and Hash-emite Plaza, Sweifieh Commercial District, Faisal Street, and Ashrafieh regeneration projects, in addition to architectural projects such as Darat King Abdullah II Performance Center. Maria’s previous experience includes Human Resources Assistant Manager at DHL- Amman and Project Coordinator at the Jordan Intel-lectual Property Association. She also worked for three years as an Architect at the Hamarneh Engineering Office, Amman, Jordan.

Maria holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Jordan.

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OUR STAFF Ala’a Al Jalamdeh - Architect & Urban Planner

Abeer Al-Mughrabi - Urban Planner

Abeer Al Saheb - Director: Planning + Housing Projects

Ahmad Nasrallah - Senior Accountant

Asma Al Khuraisat - Architect & Urban Planner

Aseel Jada - GIS Engineer

Ayman Malak - Program Officer

Bilal Farhan, PhD - Senior Transportation Planner & GIS Advisor

Dana Halasa - Architect & Urban Designer

Darya Tarawneh - Research & Outreach Officer

Dima Abu Arida - Architect & Urban Planner

Gerry Post - Founder/ General Manager

Hania Maraqa - Vice President for Research and Outreach

Hanna Evans - Senior Planning Advisor

Hussam Itani - Program Officer

Ibrahim Al Nemeh - Urban Designer

Isbah Estateyieh - Architect & Urban Planner

Lina Al Habash - Architect & Urban Planner

Lubna Barghout - Administrative Assistant

STAFF The most important asset at Ai is its human capital. Since Ai is established around the idea of incubating, nurturing and building local capacity, Ai has been very conscious about selecting its members who do not en-joy only technical competence, but who also very well fit within the institutional culture that Ai aspires to nurture. Moreover, the body of Ai staff resembles the diversity that Ai be-lieves in, where a team of multidisciplinary academic, professional, social and religious backgrounds assemble themselves under one umbrella. What unites them is their be-lief in their ability to make a difference.

“One of the great things about Ai is that they see you work hard and truly value you as an employee and a contributor.”

Shahira Hamdan, GIS Engineer

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Marah Al-Khayyat - Program Manager

Maria Rabadi - Director of Projects

Mazen Qweider - Investment & Development Advisor

Muhammad Diri - Translator

Muhammad Momani - Technical IT Support

Muhammad Nairoukh - GIS Specialist

Niveen Dajani - PMO Coordinator

Rana Dababneh - Local Economic Development Specialist

Rasha Samawi - Architect & Urban Planner

Rawan Attour - Senior Architect & Urban Planner

Rifad Al Mahasneh - Researcher

Rony Ghadban - Architect & Urban Designer

Ruba Asi - Architect & Urban Planner

Ruhaifa Hallak - Manager: Finance & Administration

Saddam Khleifat - Infrastructure Planner

Saida Daas - Executive Assistant

Salah Al-Hanbali - Program Officer

Sandra Hiari - Urban Planner and Designer

Sawsan Zatari - Urban Planner & Sociologist

Shahira Hamdan - GIS Engineer

Yazan Shreideh - Senior Advisor, Investment & Development

Yolla Al-Asmar - GIS Engineer

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Contact UsAmman Institute for Urban Development

PO Box 9155, Amman 11191, Jordan

Tel: + 962 6 47 85 358

+ 962 6 46 21 829

Fax: + 962 6 46 29 165

Courier Address: Greater Amman Municipality

Ras Al Ein Area City Hall Building, 1st Floor

Amman Master Plan Project

Website : www.ammaninstitute.org