Humanitarian and relief
Launch a PPP program for UN Agencies and International NGOs in Jordan
A free 17-page guide · The $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
What this guide is for
Your agency launches a public-private partnership (PPP) program that brings private partners into the water, energy, schools and health services that refugees and host communities rely on, with your teams as delivery and monitoring partners in small PPPs.
The case
Agencies run the services that millions of people rely on every day
Jordan hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world relative to its size, and UN agencies and international NGOs run much of the water, energy, education and health infrastructure that refugees and host communities use. Grants pay for most of it, year by year. Small PPPs let an agency bring in a private partner that invests, builds and operates a service for years, paid for the results it delivers. This guide invites UN agencies and international NGOs in Jordan to launch a PPP program, starting with the services they run today.
The guide
Bring the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity to Jordan’s humanitarian services
Your agency launches a dedicated PPP program, with a small team, a list of services that suit private partners and a set of contracts that pay for results, so the infrastructure behind humanitarian services is financed, built and run for the long term, beside Jordan’s $86 billion of projects and the $46 billion anchored in Aqaba.
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A humanitarian PPP team
A small team that knows how PPPs are prepared, procured and supervised turns the agency’s service needs in camps and host communities into projects that private partners can finance, build and operate, and it works with the contracting authorities that own each asset.
02
Small PPPs for essential services
Water networks, solar power, waste collection, school buildings and clinic operations can each be delivered as a small PPP, with a partner paid for water delivered, power supplied or classrooms kept open, measured on live data.
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Delivery and monitoring partner
The agency brings what private partners lack: knowledge of the people served, community trust, safeguarding standards and independent monitoring. It can sit inside each project as the partner that checks service levels and reports results.
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Bundled projects
PPP Regulation No. 9 of 2024 defines small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million, which can be bundled into one feasibility report and one tender. Water points across several host towns or solar roofs across many schools can go to market as one project.
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A humanitarian lab
The agency backs a PPP research lab with a one-line brief to run ten small PPP projects a year at up to $100,000 each, such as metered water kiosks, solar clinics or robotic waste sorting, and it publishes every result, including the failures.
Why UN agencies and international NGOs
Agencies run the services that millions of people rely on every day
In Jordan, UN agencies and international NGOs plan, fund and run much of the water, energy, education and health infrastructure in camps and host communities. They know the needs, hold the trust and carry the standards that any private partner would have to meet.
Where agencies fit in a PPP
- Needs
- Data on the people served, the services that fall short and where demand is growing.
- Funding
- Grants and service payments that can become long-term contracts paid for results.
- Standards
- Safeguarding, protection and quality standards written into each contract.
- Delivery
- Teams on the ground that work alongside the private partner and the community.
- Monitoring
- Independent measurement of service levels and the results each project delivers.
What changes for agencies
AI, robotics and tokenization make small projects worth doing in humanitarian settings. Preparation that once cost too much for a water network or a solar clinic can be done by a small team with the right tools. Sensors and robots measure each service as it is delivered, so payments can follow performance, and tokenization lets new investors fund a project and share in its revenue.
Why a program, and why now
Without a program, an agency funds each service grant by grant and rarely leaves behind an asset that lasts. A program gives it a team, standard contracts and a list of services that can move to long-term partnerships one after another, and the agencies that start now will learn fastest and attract the strongest partners.
Futureproofing
Futureproof UN Agencies and International NGOs in Jordan for the infrastructure singularity
This free 17-page guide shows how, with small PPPs in parallel, PPP research labs, artificial intelligence, robotics, tokenization and six first steps.
Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
Many of them will serve the same towns and regions where refugees and host communities live, and they will rely on the services agencies help run. A service model proven in one camp or host town can be repeated across the country, and other agencies can adopt the same contract.
- $86B
- of PPP and infrastructure projects in development in Jordan
- $46B
- of them anchored in Aqaba
Artificial intelligence
AI lets an agency plan and supervise services with far better information. It can forecast water and power demand by household, draft the feasibility report for a solar plant or a water network, compare bids on whole-life cost and read every contract in plain language. Once a service is running, sensors and AI show where water is lost, which systems are failing and who is not being reached.
Robotics
Robotics keeps essential systems running with small local teams. Pipe-inspection robots find leaks, drones survey water and power networks, and automated waste-sorting lines turn camp waste into materials and jobs. Their records give donors and residents an independent account of what was delivered.
Tokenization
Tokenization can bring new funders into humanitarian infrastructure. A solar plant or a water network that earns a steady payment can raise its capital from many investors, including the Jordanian diaspora, and pay them from its own revenue, while a public registry shows everyone what was built, what it cost and how it performs.
Small PPPs and research labs
Humanitarian services already come in small pieces: a water point, a solar roof, a clinic, a classroom. A humanitarian lab can test metered water, solar power or new waste contracts in a few locations, publish every result and carry what works across camps and host towns, funded by moving part of a grant budget from short-term spending into long-term partnerships.
Unsolicited proposals
Direct proposals let private companies bring ideas for humanitarian services to government, prepared at their own cost. An agency can publish the needs it sees and partner with companies that propose, so proposals point at the services people need most. A qualifying proposal enters the PPP Registry, the proposer can match the best offer at tender and the winning bidder pays the proposer’s direct study costs.
The program
How the program could work
The program can sit inside the agency’s country office, with a PPP team at its center and the agency’s programs, data and partnerships with the government behind it.
- PPP team
- A small team of engineering, legal, finance and program staff that prepares and supervises the agency’s PPPs with the contracting authorities.
- Service list
- Water, energy, waste, schools and health facilities in camps and host communities, ranked by need and readiness.
- Results contracts
- Model contracts that pay partners for water delivered, power supplied and services kept open, with data written in.
- Bundling
- Similar projects below $14.1 million bundled into one feasibility report and one tender.
- Humanitarian lab
- A PPP research lab that runs ten small pilots a year at up to $100,000 each and publishes every result.
- Safeguards
- Protection, safeguarding and community feedback built into every project from the first design.
- Partners
- Contracting authorities, municipalities, donors, lenders, operators and technology companies.
What the agency gains
The agency gains services that last beyond each funding cycle, private investment in assets it could not fund alone and partners paid for the results they deliver. Each project adds contracts, data and trained staff that make the next one faster, and each one creates local jobs.
It also gains a place at the front of how humanitarian infrastructure is delivered. The first agencies to run water, energy and schools through small PPPs with AI, robotics and new finance will set the model that other countries hosting refugees follow.
Next steps
How an agency can start
Any UN agency or international NGO in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the teams, programs and government partnerships the agency already has.
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Mandate
Approval from the country office and headquarters for a PPP program, with its services, its first projects and its first-year goals.
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Team
A named program lead, with engineering, legal, finance and program staff drawn from the agency’s existing teams.
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Pipeline
A map of the services that suit small PPPs, and early meetings with the contracting authorities and municipalities that own the assets.
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Own role
The agency’s role in each project defined in advance: needs data, standards, delivery support, monitoring or service payments.
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Partners
Donors, lenders, operators, technology companies and other agencies that will finance, build, measure and share results.
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Pilot
A first small-scale PPP or lab pilot, taken from idea to tender.
Jordan has the projects, a law that accepts unsolicited proposals and rules that make small PPPs simpler to tender. A PPP program gives your agency services that last, partners paid for results and a head start in building the superintelligent infrastructure future for the people it serves.
The full document
Inside this guide
Seventeen pages and thirteen sections, from the case for a PPP program to the first steps, written for UN agencies and international NGOs in Jordan.
Download the guide (PDF)
- 01IntroductionWhy a century of infrastructure needs rebuilding, and the $500 trillion it will take.p. 3
- 02The guideBring the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity to Jordan’s humanitarian servicesp. 5
- 03Jordan and AqabaAn $86 billion pipeline to start withp. 6
- 04Artificial intelligenceHow AI designs, structures and runs PPP projects, and what it means for UN agencies and international NGOs.p. 7
- 05RoboticsHow robots build infrastructure and keep it running, and what that means for UN agencies and international NGOs.p. 8
- 06TokenizationHow tokenization funds projects from their own revenue, and the role it opens for UN agencies and international NGOs.p. 9
- 07Small PPPs in parallelWhy many small PPPs teach a country faster than a few large ones.p. 10
- 08PPP research labsA lab in each sector, running ten small PPP projects a year.p. 11
- 09Unsolicited proposalsHow Jordan’s PPP law accepts direct proposals from private companies.p. 12
- 10Why UN agencies and international NGOsAgencies run the services that millions of people rely on every dayp. 13
- 11The programThe program can sit inside the agency’s country office, with a PPP team at its center and the agency’s programs, data and partnerships with the government behind it.p. 14
- 12AboutAbout Jordan PPP and what it offers.p. 15
- 13Next stepsHow an agency can start: six first steps.p. 16
Questions
Questions about the guide for UN Agencies and International NGOs in Jordan
- What does the guide for UN Agencies and International NGOs in Jordan propose?
- Your agency launches a public-private partnership (PPP) program that brings private partners into the water, energy, schools and health services that refugees and host communities rely on, with your teams as delivery and monitoring partners in small PPPs.
- Why should UN agencies and international NGOs in Jordan launch a PPP program?
- Agencies run the services that millions of people rely on every day. In Jordan, UN agencies and international NGOs plan, fund and run much of the water, energy, education and health infrastructure in camps and host communities. They know the needs, hold the trust and carry the standards that any private partner would have to meet.
- Which PPP projects can UN agencies and international NGOs in Jordan take part in?
- Jordan has about $86 billion of PPP and infrastructure projects in development, $46 billion of them anchored in Aqaba. Many of them will serve the same towns and regions where refugees and host communities live, and they will rely on the services agencies help run. A service model proven in one camp or host town can be repeated across the country, and other agencies can adopt the same contract.
- How can UN agencies and international NGOs in Jordan start a PPP program?
- Any UN agency or international NGO in Jordan can take this guide forward. The first steps use the teams, programs and government partnerships the agency already has. The guide sets out six first steps: mandate, team, pipeline, own role, partners and pilot.
- What does a PPP program give UN agencies and international NGOs in Jordan?
- The agency gains services that last beyond each funding cycle, private investment in assets it could not fund alone and partners paid for the results they deliver. Each project adds contracts, data and trained staff that make the next one faster, and each one creates local jobs.
- Is the guide for UN Agencies and International NGOs in Jordan free?
- Yes. It is free to read on this page and free to download as a 17-page PDF, with the case for a PPP program, Jordan’s pipeline, the role of AI, robotics and tokenization, the program and six first steps.
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