Pursuant to Greater Amman Municipality’s (GAM) endeavors to encourage public sector
entrepreneurship and as it embarks on organizational restructuring, GAM has launched a
project titled “Enhancing the entrepreneurial mindsets among GAM’s employees” in
cooperation with USAID Jordan Economic Development Program (SABEQ) and its
Institutional Transformation Cross Cutting Solution. The project was divided into three
phases; phase one ended in December 2007 and covered the designing of the project’s
parameters. This included a) identifying some of the non-core activities that GAM could
move to the private sector, b) designing an incentives scheme that encourages the
employees to start such endeavor, c) developing the institutional framework of this project
within GAM, and d) developing the legal framework that would enable GAM to start such an
initiative. The outcomes of that phase were endorsed by GAM’s top management and
SABEQ was asked to move ahead and start the second phase of this project which is the
pilot phase. The third phase would be the official launch of the project as an institutionalized
process within GAM.