Amman: The delegation held an extensive meeting with the Investment and Technology Promotion Office of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and gave a detailed presentation on the work of their institutions and the services they provide to support the national economy to explore the possibility of benefiting from the organization’s programs in supporting entrepreneurial projects, building capacities, and using technology in a way that increases their competitiveness and raises their capacity and efficiency.
For his part, Director General of the Development and Employment Fund, Mansour Wreikat, stressed the government’s interest in the small and medium-sized enterprises sector in particular, encouraging young Jordanians to pursue entrepreneurship and providing them with financial support through soft loans provided by the fund for these projects to translate their ideas into projects on the ground that contribute to providing them with direct job opportunities, expressing the fund’s
readiness to cooperate with UNIDO and exchange experiences and visits in this field.
Director of the Jordan Industrial Estates Corporation, Omar Al-Jwayed, pointed out that the industrial zones in Jordan are an incubator for industrial investments and a part of the investment environment aimed at attracting industrial investments that benefit from tax and customs incentives and others, in addition to the integrated infrastructure in place.
Al-Jwayed gave a presentation on the competitive advantages of investing in these industrial zones in line with the Jordanian economic modernization vision.
On the sidelines of the visit, Jordan’s ambassador in Manama, Rami Wreikat, received the Jordanian delegation at the embassy house, welcoming them in Bahrain, where he stressed the embassy’s support for all efforts made to increase ties and cooperation in various fields, especially the economic ones, in light of the distinguished political relations between the two brotherly countries.
Source: Jordan News Agency