Friends of Development and Investment Association (FDIS)

National Network
Jordan
Address

Jerash
Jerash
Jordan

Telephone
00962 795836736
E-Mail
jba2004@gmail.com
Mobile Phone (other)
0777849083
Website
http://www.fdisjo.com
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2007
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
The Friends of Development and Investment Society / Jerash was founded in February 2007 by the authorization of the Ministry of the Interior. Its members are a number of experienced and active people in the public work. The society took into account that among its members a multitude of degrees in various science disciplines in order to enable the Society to participate in the planning of strategies for overall development in the governorate of Jerash in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Since the development of health is the pillar of the overall development, the society has included a number of specialists in many areas of health in its membership (doctors, public health professionals),and its members have many previous experiences in the areas of health education on a wide range of health issues such as meningitis, hepatitis, AIDS and others ...). The society and its members have also experience in organizing conferences workshops, coordination and networking with various institutions of civil society. Because the society realizes the integrated relationship between health development and the overall sustainable development, health issues are a priority in our future strategies, in order to make it a public concern rather than a burden on the health workers only. • 6. Balance between development and investment projects on the one hand and the preservation of cultural and popular heritage of the communities on the other. 7. Promote environment friendly tourism projects as the next era tourism and an important source of income for local communities, while maintaining the biodiversity and the preservation of nature and the environment. 8. Work to attract the awareness and training programs for the rehabilitation of local communities in all areas to deal positively with the development and investment projects and spread culture of development among the members of the community, and work on integration and communication between local communities and the investment projects, on the other. 9. Spread and clarify the concepts of development and investment, to help the community adopt these values, and concepts, and involve in the formulation of policies in the context of sustainable development for local communities.
Mission and Objectives

General objectives:
The society works to achieve the following objectives:
1. Work with the popular and official bodies in all possible and legitimate ways in order to create the environment to be attractive for investment, and supportive of the national economy in line with the royal visions, and to highlight the modern image of Jordan as a model of democracy and state of institutions.
2. Cooperation with all governmental and quasi-governmental and civil society institutions concerned with the overall sustainable development and to communicate with the Arab and international bodies and forums on the economic prospects for the detection of investment and development.
3. Work to involve local communities in development projects in all its aspects and give a chance to look at and participate in the formulation of development policies and investment to ensure that opportunities for increasing income, and gaining the support to them through a package of economic and social benefits.
4. To provide opportunities for women's gender through awareness, training and rehabilitation programs and to give them the proper role they deserve as they represent 50% of the community and including them in the core targeted groups.
5. Active participation in health development and involvement to make the task of the health concern a public one, and not a burden on the health workers only.

Main Projects / Activities

establishing FDIS’s Resiliency and Life Skills International School as the first of its kind in Jordan, and it will:
 Teach youth the necessary skills to resist social (peer) pressures to smoke, drink, and use drugs
 Help youth to develop greater self-esteem and self-confidence
 Enable youth to effectively cope with anxiety
 Increase their knowledge of the immediate consequences of substance abuse
 Enhance cognitive and behavioral competency to reduce and prevent a variety of health risk behaviors

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Contact (1) Full Name
Ghadeer Nassar
Head of the organisation
Muna Alalul
Contact (2) Full Name
Muna Alalul