The Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation (JEDCO) announces the launch of the "Tamkeen" program, which aims to provide technical and financial support to empower SMEs in different governorates of Jordan in several industrial, service, agricultural, tourism, and creative sectors through:

1. Enhancing the competitiveness of economic enterprises and developing the business environment.
2. Supporting research, development, innovation, and promoting the use of creative industries.
3. Supporting entrepreneurship and enhancing the use of smart technologies and applications of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to improve efficiency and productivity.
4. Promoting a culture of reliability and quality, local and international standards, and protecting intellectual property rights.
5. Reducing energy costs, adopting environmental practices, managing environmental waste, and moving towards a green economy.
6. Empowering skills and competencies of the workforce to ensure global competitiveness.
7. Developing packaging, transportation, and logistics services in economic enterprises.
8. Enhancing the supportive environment for Local SMEs to increase their global competitiveness.
9. Providing technical and financial support to at least 30 existing projects in 2024 across various sectors in all governorates of Jordan, with financial support up to 50,000 Jordanian Dinars per project.

Program Funding: the Jordanian Government.

Application Deadline: Applications are to be submitted electronically by 30th November 2024 using JEDCO’s website.