The functions and duties of the Directorate:

• Minimizing the developmental variations among the various regions and governorates through the Regional Information System (IRS).

• Achieving optimized utilization of the available financial resources to upgrade citizens’ living standards in all fields, and studying available investment opportunities to increase productivity and achieve sustainable development.

• Speeding up the implementation of development projects leading to upgrading the level of the economic and social services in the governorates through preparing a periodical progress report that includes the work progress of the capital investment projects, exploring appropriate solutions to all difficulties and constraints that are facing projects’ implementation, and conducting projects follow-up through Project Monitoring System (PMS).

•  Enhancing the principle of financial and administrative decentralization, and creating the successful institutional framework for the participation of all segments of the society in the developmental process including: proposal, preparation, implementation, and following up the developmental programs and projects in the governorates.

• Proposing the logistical and training needs for the governors, administrative officers and the staff of the administrative units in the governorates.

• Recognizing and defining poverty pockets in the governorates and their administrative units in cooperation and coordination with the administrative officers and concerned parties.

• Providing the directorates and divisions, and the related parties with the results of the conducted studies.

• Activating the roles of commissions, societies, and non-governmental organizations in developing the local societies in the governorates and their administrate units.

• Activating the roles of women and youth sectors in the process of local development in the governorates and their administrate units.

• Holding workshops and conducting training courses of productive types, with the objective of upgrading the efficiency of the productive sectors to create new job opportunities, in coordination and cooperation with the related parties.

• Preparing reports on the social and economic aspects resulted by abnormal conditions, such as: drought, weather conditions, disasters –God forbids- and other conditions.

• Facilitating projects’ field work procedures through networking with public and private sector institutions and civil society organizations, and mobilizing human and logistic resources.

• Networking among the pioneering projects and enterprises in the governorates to assess the needs of these investments and encouraging them to employ local youth.

• Providing the governorate’s information, studies and plans in order to design the activities based on the actual needs of each governorate, and taking into consideration each governorate’s special social, cultural and economic conditions.

• Providing the required support and coordination to the donors.

• Following up proposed projects for financing under the Governorates Infrastructure Component/ the Gulf States Donation – the Kuwaiti Fund for the year.

Working Policies and Applied Procedures:

First: Creating institutional partnership with the ministries, governmental directorates and institutions, and related civil institutions through memoranda of understanding that define the roles of the partner institutions, based on an integrated and subject related framework depicting the actual partnership among these parties.

Second: Recognizing developmental projects in the governorates and preparing the subject reference document, and preparing work progress reports of the developmental projects highlighting their important achievements, and spotting delays or regression and minimizing its causes, and presenting ways to eliminate the constraints that are hindering the acceptable implementation of these projects according to their predefined plans and time schedules.

Third: Coordinating and following up with all parties (international, local and civil society organizations) participating in the developmental process.

Fourth: Acting in response to the Royal Directions of providing all the required facilities to encourage and attract more investments.

Fifth: Developing a computerized database to include information about all the economic and social sectors of the governorates, mainly the demographic, social, and economic characteristics of the inhabitants, with emphasis on the labor force to recognize the status of the economic activity; in addition, to identifying unemployment rates and their levels at the labor market, and determining unemployment rates and their causes in all governorates.

Sixth: Facilitating and following up the donor and lending agencies’ assignments related to development, and taking part with them in developing, implementing and following up the developmental plans and programs.

Seventh: Developing and implementing the scenarios of the administrative decentralization project, and participating in the conferences and workshops on the subject of decentralization and the role of the administrative officers in the local development, through the cooperation with all related ministries and institutions.

Eighth: Conducting periodical and continuous staff performance appraisal at the developmental units in the governorates to define the technical and training needs of the staff, and working on the fulfillment of these needs.

Programs and activities at the level of the Local Development Directorate:

• Enhancing Local Economic Development Program in Jordan.

• Supporting Decentralization and Local Development Project.

• UNDP Program Projects in Jordan.

• Strategic Developmental Planning Tool Project (Tanmeyah)

• The International Cooperation Agency of the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNGI) Project.

• The study of The Effect of the Syrian Refugees on the Housing Sector in the Kingdom.

• Local Enterprise Support Project.

• TAWASOL Program for Family Happiness, USAID financed.

• Memoranda of understanding.