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The Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) (Arabic:وزارة التنمية الاجتماعية) is the public service department of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan charged with advising the government on social policy, and providing social services.

The Ministry covers the service costs of 200 different administrative units throughout the Kingdom's various provinces and states. The MoSD operates in cooperation with its three specific departments: Welfare, Development, and Support/Administration. In addition, the Ministry's departments work in tandem with 41 field offices of the MoSD in the labor force. The different offices range from development offices, local development community centers, community protection centers which range from ministry offices to its local community centers to social defense offices.

== History == The history of the Ministry of Social Development reflects its commitment to offering services in the face of changing social conditions and its efforts to establish and build various organizations that have subsequently become independent of the ministry. After the beginning of a serious of migrations from rural to urban areas in 1948 in Jordan, the Ministry of Interior opened the Department of Social Affairs (DoSA) to confront the various social issues and challenges of Jordanian migrants. In 1953, the DoSA was transferred from the Ministry of Interior to the Ministry of Health and thereafter the DoSA assumed numerous new roles which included the crucial role of providing social services to the poor and orphans. In 1956, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Law was legislated, which established the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor in order to provide social services, enhance social productivity, and protect worker's interests.

At the end of the 1970s, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor split into two independent ministries, which prompted the founding of the Ministry of Social Development. Included in the history of the MoSD is the creation of multiple programs, organizations, and institutions that were transferred to other ministries and departments like the Jordan Cooperative Organization Society, the Youth Sports Circle, the Princess Rahmah College for Social Services, the Eradication of Illiteracy and Adult Education program, the Guidance and Rural Development program, and the National Aid Fund.

== Goals and Objectives == The Ministry is responsible for fulfilling three objectives in accordance with the law.
 * 1) Welfare and Protection
 * 2) Human Development
 * 3) Support and Administration

Welfare and Protection
The welfare sector works with the social, familial, and childhood protective services department in addition to the disabled person affairs department.

The Ministry supports orphans, minors, disabled persons, abused women, seniors, the needy, and victims of human trafficking by diagnosing their conditions and providing social services until their condition improves.

The Ministry implements these measures through the following means:
 * 1) Building social welfare housing and monitoring and examining the development of it
 * 2) Licensing and supervising private and volunteer social welfare housing
 * 3) Purchasing social welfare services from the private sector
 * 4) Searching for alternatives for institutional welfare services similar to the alternative family welfare

The Relationship between the Ministry of Social Development and Social Welfare for Disabled Persons
The Ministry of Social Development works to support disabled persons through its 1005 existing employees with special needs, 5 housing shelters, 16 day care centers, 3 training centers, and 3 diagnostic centers.

Additionally, the Ministry licenses and supervises 65 private support centers for disabled persons, provides financial aid to 14,881 disabled persons of both genders, and reviews approximately more than 15,000 requests for custom tax waivers for disabled persons.

The Ministry sponsors organizations supportive of the disabled and makes special agreements with its private sector and volunteer partners concerned of persons with disabilities.

==== Family Shelters: A Model for Protecting Women from Domestic Violence ==== The House of Family Protection operates in accordance with The Homes for Ensuring Family Safety directive 48 in 2004. The Project was launched with the support of Her Majesty, Queen Rania Abdullah on 17 February 2007.

The homes provide services for female victims of domestic violence and their children until the settlement of their cases and reconciliation with their families. This homes project received the United Nations Gender Sensitive Public Service Award in 2013.

==== Institutions for the Protection and Welfare of Children in the Governmental and Volunteer Sector ====

Human Development
The development sector works with the department of organizations and the department of enhancing social productivity.

The human development sector promotes social and economic productivity for individuals (with their families and their associations) and their local communities affiliated with the Ministry through the following measures:
 * 1) Granting small business loans
 * 2) Registering their organizations and supervising them, and granting them project development grants and purchasing institutional social services for some of them
 * 3) Making them aware of the causes behind different social issues and their effects and ways to overcome them
 * 4) Determining the needs of the least fortunate communities and striving to fulfill the needs of these communities
 * 5) Building, purchasing, and refurbishing housing units for poor families

==== Housing Units for Poor Families Project ==== His Majesty, King Abdullah II visited Al-Nabta village in the province of Tafilah in 2002. He ordered the improvement of the living conditions for the various families in the village by building housing units for them. This project benefited 2,000 families.

The Ministry of Social Development has carried out a study that determined 11,000 families need housing assistance. This report convinced the Ministry to monitor closely the implementation of both the Housing Units for Poor Families Project and the Impoverished Families Housing Project in tandem with his Majesty's advisers.

=== Support and Administration === The support and administration sector focuses on institutional and political development, human and financial resources, building, housing, and administrative and legal issues.

Directorate of Social Defense
The Directorate of Social Defense seeks to protect juveniles who fall in a dispute with the law because of negative social issues and problems which led to their infraction, as well as providing a safe environment that offers full services for their rehabilitation and assimilation into society. The Directorate is also concerned with supporting families who experience domestic violence and families of prisoners by protecting them from the negative influences of violence and supporting families without a main provider. It also works to protect women who are victims of violence by creating shelters with full services, preparing subsequent care programs, and helping to create an independent life for women who have experienced violence and for female graduates who are caring for children. The Directorate also works to prevent begging and lessen its negative influence.

Departments of the Directorate of Social Defense

 * 1) Juveniles and Behavior Observation Department
 * 2) Women and Social Protection Department
 * 3) Social Services and Correctional Facilities Department

Directorate of Family and Children
The Directorate of Family and Children is concerned with the protection and care of the family and children who are victims of social issues, as well as working to provide a decent way of life which complies with their developmental needs. This Directorate also works to provide the needs of families who are unable to have children by helping them to adopt children who are in need of care and provision. At the same time, the Directorate is concerned with children who are in need of familial care and their right to live in a safe environment. It is also concerned with preserving the dignity of the elderly who are in need of accommodation and social services.

Departments of the Directorate of Family and Children

 * 1) The Children’s Department and its Charities
 * 2) Adoption Department
 * 3) Upbringing department
 * 4) Department for the Elderly
 * 5) Department of Social Security and Activities
 * 6) Department of Subsequent Care

Directorate for Disabled Persons
The Directorate for Disabled Persons is concerned with the welfare, training, and qualification of disabled individuals and providing counsel and guidance for their families and members of their community with the goal of including them in society, as well as working to help those who are able to work and rely on themselves. The Directorate also supervises the centers and charities for disabled individuals both in the government and volunteer and private sectors and follow-up licensing procedures and assess its performance and take the necessary action against violators.

Directorate of Productivity Enhancement
The Directorate of Productivity Enhancement is concerned with strengthening the productivity of poor families through small projects and productive developmental projects which are carried out by the Ministry, charity organizations, and local development centers, with the goal of alleviating poverty. The Directorate oversees these projects and follows up on them, as well as trains those who are affected by these issues to carry out these projects. It also supervises in training beneficiary households, or possible beneficiaries, with both the Productive Families and Domestic Credit Funds for Running Small Projects programs.

Departments of the Directorate of Productivity Enhancement

 * 1) Productivity and Small Projects Department
 * 2) Domestic Credit Funds Department
 * 3) Community Development Centers Department

Directorate of Buildings and Housing
The Directorate of Buildings and Housing deals with ensuring generous housing for poor families and maintenance of existing housing for them, as well as undertaking the establishment of new housing for institutions and Ministry centers, and rehabilitating and restoring old housing and maintaining them. Also, the Directorate rents necessary housing for the Ministry, and participates in licensing buildings belonging to social institutions in the private sector.

Departments of the Directorate of Buildings and Housing

 * 1) Department of Housing
 * 2) Department of Buildings and Maintenance
 * 3) Department of Land Acquisition and Horticulture

Directorate of Societies
The Directorate of Societies deals with supporting voluntary labor efforts, supporting the establishment of organizations, and supervising the voluntary agencies and organizations which fall within the specialty of the Ministry of Social Development, and helps them in coordinating its efforts and improving its performance to raise the level of its influence in the operations of social development.

Departments of the Directorate of Societies

 * 1) Department of Local Societies
 * 2) Department of Foreign Societies
 * 3) Department of Private and Closed Societies
 * 4) Department of Organization's Financial Auditing

Directorate of Policies and Institutional Development
This Directorate of Policies and Institutional Development deals with the preparation of strategic plans, reviewing and following up on achievement, as well as developing social policies, preparing studies, analyzing statistical evidence and the social phenomenon of finding solutions. The Directorate undertakes following up on private projects and programs working within the Ministry and evaluates their effect on society. Also, the Directorate is charged with drawing up policies to integrate the concept of gender, developing a strategy, and following up on the different variables. It also does the follow up of foreign relations with supporting agencies, funding, application of agreements, and its obligations according to the assets.

The Directorate undertakes organizational excellence activities and activates management change in the Ministry, and deals with documenting and discussing and simplifying procedures and various work methods in the Ministry. This includes improving the level of advanced services in society, and dealing with the development of effective ways for managing complaints and suggestions aimed at raising the level of employee satisfaction.

Also, the Directorate undertakes updating organizational structures for the various managerial units to improve performance and achieve the strategic goals and in coordination and cooperation with all management units in the Ministry.

Departments of the Directorate of Policies and Institutional Development

 * 1) Department of Strategic Planning
 * 2) Department of Following up and Evaluation
 * 3) Department of Studies and Foreign coordination
 * 4) Department of Gender
 * 5) Department of Improving Services and Operations Management
 * 6) Department of Projects and Foreign Grants

National Aid Fund
The The National Aid Fund (NAF) is under the control of the Ministry of Social Development. The NAF was established in 1986 with the goal of securing protection and welfare for needy families and improving their quality of life. The NAF also contributes in activating and developing the skills and abilities of the members of those families and integrating them into the workforce to guarantee that they receive a steady income. The NAF wants to help transform these families into aid providers rather than them being aid beneficiaries by providing monthly and emergency financial aid, physical rehabilitation, vocational training, and special employment programs for their children.

The Fund currently offers its services in the field of recurring monthly aid to nearly 90,000 families, which accounts for 7.5% of Jordan's population.

Vision
Jordanian families in need are able to secure their essential needs and be economically active.

Mission
To lead in protection and welfare of the poor and needy Jordanian families by providing financial aid of all kinds and promoting the potential of these families to contribute by providing opportunities for vocational training, employment, and production opportunities appropriate for its members.

Registry of Societies
The Registry of Societies was established in the Ministry of Social Development in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in accordance with the Societies Act no. 51 (2008) and its amendments, which did away with the Societies and Volunteer Organizations Act no. 33 (1966) and its amendments. The Registry for Societies esteems the organizers of the societies sector in the Kingdom which conforms with effective legislations.

The responsibility of managing the Registry of Societies falls on the Administration Council of the Registry which is headed by the Minister of Social Development. The membership of the Council includes the Secretary-General for the Registry of Societies, the vice president, and a representative from each distinct ministry, in addition to 4 members who represent the charity or volunteer sector. The responsibility of managing the Societies Aid Fund with transparency and integrity also falls on the Administration Council of the Registry.

There is no distinction between societies because clear standards are set.

Vision
The voluntary sector becomes a fundamental pillar of development work and has the ability to deliver quality services to the community.

Mission
Increase the level of performance of the societies and integrate the bond of effective partnership between them as well as the public and private sector, and to provide all possible support and assistance for the success of their initiatives, and to provide services to the local community.

Values

 * Good governance, transparency, and accountability
 * Teamwork
 * Justice
 * Continuous development and improvement

Registered Centers
== Major Projects ==

Youth for Action
The "Youth for Action" program in Jordan, which supports the Jordanian government's efforts in cooperation with the ministry of Social Development and the institutions of civil society and the private sector in institutionalizing, built to meet the needs of young people less fortunate and communities responsive program. The program is implemented by the International Youth Organization and funded by the Agency American International Development. The program will provide opportunities for young men and women who are less fortunate between 15 and 24 years of age and who face significant challenges because of their absence from school and suffering unemployment.

Goals

 * Improve the living and economic conditions of young people in Jordan
 * Promote young people in integration and activation in the local development of their communities
 * Build support networks and coalitions to link the less fortunate youth to economic and social opportunities
 * Offer level of social services focusing on improving their lives and enhance their practical skills and employment opportunities
 * Facilitate their access to public services (heath, educational, recreational) that meet their needs

Objectives

 * Promote life skills and entrepreneurial skills among young people less fortunate with the requirements of the labor market so as to create youth employment opportunities
 * Strengthening the general government services for youth in order to ensure access for underprivileged groups and to meet their needs and priorities
 * Increase the participation of young people in the local community activities and their contribution to the decision-making in their communities at all levels
 * Develop the local environment in targeted communities through infrastructure projects and rehabilitation projects
 * Building the capacity of government agencies concerned (central and sub-) and civil society partners to coordinate, manage and provide support youth programs
 * Policy coordination and lobbying efforts related to the empowerment of young people to work

Awards

 * United Nations Gender Sensitive Public Service Award - 2013

== Associations ==

Associations and Social Organizations
Names and address of associations and social organizations registered with the Ministry

Registered Organizations

 * 1) Nurseries
 * 2) Nursing Homes
 * 3) Disabled Affairs
 * 4) Childhood Organizations

Publications
List of Ministry publications
 * Studies and Research
 * Reports and Statistics
 * Worksheets
 * Other Publications