{{Short description|Non-profit organisation}} {{Infobox organization | name = INJAZ | founded = {{date and age|1999}} | native_name = إنجاز | native_name_lang = ar | location = | focus = Youth, Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship | headquarters = Amman, Jordan | leader_title = Chairperson | leader_name = Haethum Buttikhi | leader_title2 = Vice Chairperson | leader_name2 = Ahmad Tijani | num_employees = 90+ | website = https://injaz.org.jo/ }}
'''INJAZ''' is a non-profit organization established in 1999, with its headquarters situated in Amman, Jordan. The organization provides vocational training courses for children from developing nations. INJAZ operates over 44 initiatives across all twelve governorates of Jordan, collaborating with 3000 schools, 41 universities and colleges and 50 youth centers to deliver its programs.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=INJAZ |url=https://injaz.org.jo/overview/ |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=injaz.org.jo}}</ref>
==History== Established in 1999, INJAZ originally operated as a project under Save the Children, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and by Jordanian Queen Rania al Abdullah.<ref name="Altorki2015">{{cite book |author=Soraya Altorki |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwecCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA398 |title=A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East |publisher=Wiley |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-118-47567-6 |page=398}}</ref> The project was relaunched in 2001 as an independent nonprofit organization, led by Soraya Salti.<ref name="AndrewsWood2013">{{cite book |author1=P. Andrews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R0qvAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT150 |title=Uberpreneurs: How to Create Innovative Global Businesses and Transform Human Societies |author2=F. Wood |date=8 December 2013 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-37615-2 |pages=150–151}}</ref> Jordan enrolled over 100,000 students by the 2010-2011 school year.<ref name="unesco">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NxmmxZcrRPYC&pg=PA246 |title=Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work |publisher=UNESCO |year=2012 |isbn=978-92-3-104240-9 |page=246}}</ref>
INJAZ provides young people with vocational training and entrepreneurship skills.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BanVhdibzUC&pg=PA17 |title=Report on trade mission to Tunisia, Jordan, Oman, and Egypt |publisher=DIANE Publishing |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-4289-5005-4 |page=17}}</ref><ref name="DhillonYousef2011">{{cite book |author1=Navtej Dhillon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMUTmWJm4V0C&pg=PA160 |title=Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East |author2=Tarik Yousef |publisher=Brookings Institution Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-8157-0472-0 |page=160}}</ref> The organization receives support from Jordan's business and professional community, which contributes funds, as well as volunteer teachers and leaders.<ref name="Schroeder2013">{{cite book |author=Christopher M. Schroeder |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHOk6WAhqMYC&pg=PA122 |title=Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-137-35671-0 |page=122}}</ref><ref name="Bank2004">{{cite book |author=World Bank |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=woC86csGg2kC&pg=PA40 |title=Gender and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Women in the Public Sphere |publisher=World Bank Publications |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8213-5676-0 |page=40}}</ref>
In 2018 INJAZ established mySTARTUP, a subsidiary incubator program that helps youth and women entrepreneurs launch startups. The current operational capacity of mySTARTUP allows it to incubate 100 startups a year.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=mySTARTUP |url=https://irc-jordan.com/lists/injaz/mystartup/ |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=Innovation Resource Center in Jordan |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Locations== INJAZ is headquartered in Amman, Jordan, and operates field offices in various locations across the country, including Irbid, Zarqa, Al Karak, Wadi Musa, Tafilah and Aqaba.<ref>{{Cite web |title=INJAZ |url=https://injaz.org.jo/overview/ |access-date=2024-03-11 |website=injaz.org.jo}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Non-profit organisations based in Jordan Category:Organizations established in 1999 Category:Educational organisations based in Jordan Category:Child-related organisations in Jordan Category:1999 establishments in Jordan