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Queen Noor establishes the Women in Development Project to accelerate the integration of poor women in national development through the introduction of non-traditional income generating schemes many of which emphasized environmental responsibility and conservation.
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Queen Noor creates the Royal Endowment for Culture and Education to undertake the first research on Jordan’s specific manpower deficits and award scholarships, with special emphasis on outstanding women, for advanced studies in fields vital to Jordan’s future development.
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Following the Arab Summit, Queen Noor launches an annual International Arab Youth Congress to promote understanding, tolerance, and solidarity and to communicate recommendations to policymakers and international agencies on a range of regional and global challenges.
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Queen Noor launches the annual Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts to transform the historic city of Jerash and Jordan into a regional and international cultural venue and serve as a dynamic catalyst and showcase for Jordanian and Arab culture and arts and cross-cultural exchange.
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The Prime Minister asks Queen Noor to assume responsibility for the implementation of an educational project to commemorate His Majesty’s King Hussein’s 1977 Silver Jubilee which results in the creation of the Jubilee School and the Jubilee Institute.
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The Noor Al Hussein Foundation is established to consolidate Queen Noor’s early sustainable development initiatives in the fields of poverty eradication, women’s empowerment, microcredit, family health, culture, and arts.
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National Handicrafts Development Project is launched to revive and preserve a unique aspect of Jordan’s national heritage while developing income-generating opportunities for women.
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The National Music Conservatory is launched to develop accomplished musicians in classical Arabic and Western music, to foster music appreciation, to promote teacher training and public school music curricula in Jordan and the international exchange of artists.
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Institute for Child Health and Development, the precursor to the Institute for Family Health, is launched with support from Sweden’s Radda Barnen to introduce a model for primary healthcare for mother and child, including family planning and child development monitoring and rehabilitation.
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The Noor Al Hussein Community Center in Aqaba opens to offer a range of cultural, educational and social services to young women and children as well as business incubation and business development services, and capacity building for community-based organizations and underprivileged families in southern Jordan.
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The Salt Handicrafts Development Center is established in collaboration with the Salt Development Corporation to develop the next generation of skilled artisans through various training programs.
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The Theater-in Education Program introduces the use of performing arts as a medium to promote awareness of critical issues, including women's rights, human rights, conservation, youth civic engagement, social cohesion and cross-cultural understanding. The program evolved into the National Center for Culture & Arts which continues to use performing arts as a platform for social change.
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The Quality of Life Project, the precursor to the Community Development Institute, is created at the request of the World Health Organization to develop a regional model for comprehensive integrated development and capacity building at the grassroots level.
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The Jordan Design and Trade Center launches, based on the success of the National Handicrafts Development Project, to stimulate and raise the standards of national handicrafts production, to increase women’s productivity and economic role, create new jobs, marketing strategies, and opportunities for the industry to become a new, sustainable source of national income.
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The Relief and Rehabilitation Project is created to support Jordanian returnees and the displaced from the 1991 Gulf War to cope with socio-economic hardships through the provision of food and clothing as well as soft loans to help individuals and families initiate income-generating enterprises.
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The Jubilee School, a co-educational secondary institution, opens to develop the academic potential of outstanding scholarship students from Jordan and the region, with special emphasis on students from less developed areas.
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Wadi Seer Community Development Project renovates historic farmhouses in the scenic archaeological valley of Iraq Al Amir transforming it into Jordan’s first handicraft village hosting women’s handcraft workshops.
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The National Task Force for Children is created to monitor and evaluate the status of Jordanian children. The Task Force’s research unit developed into today’s Information and Research Center (IRCKHF), which serves as a catalyst for improved socio-economic development through multidisciplinary research and knowledge sharing with practitioners, policymakers and advocacy campaigns.
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The Jubilee Center for Excellence in Education was established as a training center to enhance national and regional standards for education by utilizing advanced educational technology and state-of-the-art testing tools for public and private school teachers and students.
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Queen Noor establishes the King Hussein Foundation to give enduring life to His Majesty King Hussein’s humanitarian vision and legacy by focusing on providing equitable access to socio-economic, educational, health and cultural opportunities for women, youth, and the marginalized as well as training and capacity building initiatives throughout the Middle East .
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The King Hussein Foundation International is also established in the United States to support development efforts of the foundation and award the King Hussein Leadership Prize to individuals, groups, or institutions that demonstrate inspiring leadership in their efforts to promote sustainable development, human rights, tolerance, social equity and peace.
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The Noor Al Hussein Foundation launches Tamweelcom - the Jordan Micro Finance Company - to provide tailored, fast track and responsible financing solutions to marginalized citizens and small entrepreneurs.
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Queen Noor awards the first King Hussein Leadership Prize to Professor Muhammed Yunus, founder and creator of the Grameen Bank, whose pioneering work and vision has contributed significantly in promoting credit-based small-scale entrepreneurship, especially among poor women.
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The Quality of Life Program pioneers an initiative focusing on stimulating children’s interest and engagement in conserving Aqaba’s rich coral reef and aquatic life by connecting students around the world with scientists and researchers to broaden their knowledge on the environment and global perspectives.
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The 2001 King Hussein Leadership Prize is awarded to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for its persistence in rendering humanitarian services to millions of Palestinians in education, health, and social welfare.
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The Women's Health Counselling Center was established at the Institute for Child Health and Development to improve the wellbeing of women and adolescents. The Center implements a holistic approach that responds to the medical, social, psychological, and legal needs of women, with male involvement.
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The 2002 King Hussein Leadership Prize is awarded to the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization for its outstanding relief and humanitarian assistance in over 40 countries in the Middle East and West Asia.
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The Institute for Family Health evolved from the Institute for Child Health and Development to provide comprehensive family healthcare services, and professional accredited training on child development and protection, reproductive health, gender-based violence, psychosocial services, and rehabilitation of children with disabilities as well as survivors of violence and torture.
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The 2003 KIng Hussein Leadership Prize is awarded to Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, for her tireless work to affect social change in her own country and in countries ravaged by conflict.
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The Information and Research Center develops a creative pre-school education training program, in partnership with UNESCO, to stimulate children’s development and familiarize families and caregivers in all aspects of child development and well-being.
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The King Hussein Science Garden, a pioneering national project, was established at the Jubilee Institute to provide thousands of students from public and private schools with ‘learning–through–play' and hands-on experiments of scientific principles and phenomena.
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The 2004 King Hussein Leadership Prize is awarded to Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) for its work in providing emergency humanitarian and medical assistance to people in distress around the world.
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The Community Development Institute (CDI) launches to improve livelihoods and resilience by creating job opportunities, building institutional and entrepreneurship capacities of individuals and community based organizations, accessing seed money and improving community infrastructure, for Jordanians and refugees throughout Jordan.
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The 2005 KIng Hussein Leadership Prize is awarded to four recipients: The Arab Human Development Reports, Dr. Rola Dashti, Mrs. Saliha Djuderija, and OneVoice.
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The 2006 King Hussein Leadership Prize is awarded to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, the spiritual statesman and Nobel Laureate, and to Seeds of Peace
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The Media and Humanity Program launches during New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival to promote media projects that bridge political and cultural divides with special emphasis on the Middle East and the Muslim world.
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The National Music Conservatory develops Jordan's first national orchestra (Amman Symphony Orchestra) in partnership with the Greater Amman Municipality and the private sector. It provided an opportunity to experience music through the works of great composers, visiting conductors, and fine soloists.
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The Government of Jordan takes over the administration of the Jerash Festival for Culture and Arts from the King Hussein Foundation
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The Information and Research Center assists in relieving trauma and violence syndrome by adapting the early childhood family education initiative and in-home education kit for use by families of Iraqi refugees and later by Syrian refugees.
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In response to the emerging need to address mental health of Jordanians and refugees, the Institute for Family health launched Jordan’s first Trauma Center. The center provides specialized rehabilitation services to survivors of gender-based violence and torture, in addition to regional capacity building.
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The 2008 King Hussein Leadership Prize is awarded to solar power innovator Robert Freling for bringing green energy to rural villages around the world.
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The Jubilee Institute commences management of the Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative "DAFI-UNHCR" program which provides university scholarships to aspiring refugee students at Jordanian universities and a life skills support program.
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The 2009 King Hussein Leadership Prize is awarded to Julia Bacha, Ronit Avni, and Rula Salameh, the director and producers of Budrus, the award-winning documentary about a Palestinian community organizer who launches a nonviolent resistance movement to save his village from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier.
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Tamweelcom adopts a pioneering policy advising clients to make environmentally friendly choices in setting up their businesses, and accessing finance to environment solutions to those entrepreneurs, such as introducing solar panel systems.
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HAQQI an online platform was launched by the Information and Research Center to access information on legislation, research and media, focusing on gender and human rights in Jordan.
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Ethmar for Islamic Microfinance, Jordan’s first micro-finance institution offering Sharia-compliant financial products, is launched to address the demand-supply gap for acceptable loan services for many in Jordan.
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The King Hussein Foundation Solar Farm was launched as part of the Foundation’s longstanding commitment to sustainable development. Feeding green energy to over 30 centers and branches operated by the Foundation, the Farm was another pioneering first for Jordan’s non-profit sector.
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Ethmar for Islamic Microfinance is awarded the 2018 Global Islamic Micro Forum Award for developing a financial tracking system for Islamic compliant loans and successfully developing innovative financing products, such as vocational loan schemes, that help improve the standards of living and address the day-to-day social challenges borne by a wide segment of society.
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The Community Development Institute launches a 2-year project to create awareness and promote advocacy on renewable energy and energy efficiency (REEE) through collaboration between local communities, private and public sectors in three locations in northern, central and southern Jordan.
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As a result of the unexpected emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic that sent shockwaves across the globe;the King Hussein Foundation streamlined its programmatic approach to reinforce national public awareness efforts; while simultaneously maintaining steadfast support to KHF beneficiaries.