- The King Abdullah II Center for Excellence was founded in January 2006
according to Bylaw Number (6) of the Year 2006.
- The Center manages the ‘King Abdullah II Award for Excellence’, which is
considered the most prestigious award for excellence on the national level and
in all sectors.
- His Majesty King Abdullah II appointed His Royal Highness Prince Feisal Bin
Al-Hussein as the Chairman of the Center’s Board of Trustees.
- The Center is considered the national reference for quality and excellence in
all sectors.
- The role of the Center is to promote the culture of excellence in all sectors
in order to increase Jordan’s international competitiveness with the ultimate
goal of ensuring a prosperous future for Jordan.
- The Center grants an award known as the “King Abdullah II Award for
Excellence” to any ministry, governmental or non-governmental association,
company, or individual, according to the criteria and fields adopted by the
Center’s Board of Trustees.
Vision
To be the primary catalyst towards developing a more internationally competitive Jordan.
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Mission
King Abdullah II Center for Excellence aims at promoting a culture of excellence
in Jordan and the region through developing excellence frameworks and assessment
criteria based on international best practices, assessing organization's
performance, managing King Abdullah II awards for excellence and promoting
excellence to public sector, private sector, not-for-profit sector and
non-governmental organizations.
The Center’s Objectives
The Center aims at:
- Promoting the culture of excellence through promoting awareness about concepts of distinguished performance, innovation and quality in line with international excellence models.
- Providing a reference guide and setting a criteria benchmarked with international best practices for measuring the level of progress and development in the performance of government institutions, companies and non-governmental associations and enhancing positive competitiveness among them.
The Center’s Board of Trustees
According to the Center’s bylaw, the Board is made up of the Chairman, who is
appointed by a Royal Decree, and not less than nine experienced and qualified
members appointed by the Chairman for a period of two years subject to renewal.
Role of the Board of Trustees.
The Board undertakes several responsibilities and authorities that mainly
include:
- Designing the Center’s general policy and setting the necessary plans and
programs to be executed, and their funding programs.
- Preparing, adopting and reviewing standards and criteria of excellence in
line with international standards upon the recommendations of a committee to be
formed for this purpose.
- Adopting the Award’s fields, participation and nomination criteria pursuant
to regulations issued for this purpose.
- Appointing the Chairman and members of the Assessors’ Committee and
accrediting the evaluation standards and criteria.
- Endorsing the recommendations of the Assessors’ Committee regarding the
selection of the Award’s winners.
- Forming one or more committees to accomplish the Center’s objectives and
determining their responsibilities in the formation decision.
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The Steering Committee
This is a sub-committee of the Board of Trustees assigned to follow up on the
Center’s work progress, adopt issues to be presented to the Board of Trustees,
and follow up on the implementation of the Board’s decisions.
The Committee also, and after receiving the results from the Assessors’ Panel
about ministries and associations, submits its recommendations to the Board of
Trustees to determine the winners.
The Executive Director
The Executive Director reports directly to His Royal Highness the Chairman of
the Board of Trustees, and is responsible for implementing the decisions of the
Board of Trustees.
The “Committed to Excellence” Certificate
The King Abdullah II Center for Excellence received the “Committed to
Excellence” Certificate that is awarded by the European Foundation for Quality
Management (EFQM), which is considered the leading international organization
concerned with excellence of performance. With this achievement, the Center
becomes the first organization in the Middle East and North Africa Region to
acquire this Certificate.
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Awards Managed by the Center
- “King Abdullah II Award for Excellence in Government Performance and
Transparency” - Public Sector
- “King Abdullah II Award for Excellence” - Private Sector
- “King Abdullah II Award for Excellence” - Business Associations Sector
Training Courses and Awareness Seminars
- The Center conducts awareness seminars for organizations participating and
willing to participate in the Awards it manages for the public, private and
business associations sectors. The seminars aim to introduce these organizations
to the awards’ criteria, assessment process, and participation report writing,
as well as the Awards’ timeline.
- The Center conducts training courses for nominees to join the Assessors’ Panel
for each Award in order to introduce them to the Award’s criteria, assessment
process, and method of writing the assessment reports.
- The Center conducts training courses for interested individuals to be approved
mentors, to provide them with the knowledge about mentoring stages, approved
mentors' skills and requirements, mentoring process (tools needed), specify the
associations' status through awards criteria and assessment mechanism.
The Presentation of the Excellence Awards
Under the Royal Patronage, the Center celebrates the winners of the King
Abdullah II Award for Excellence at a special ceremony where the winners receive
a trophy of the Award and a Certificate of Appreciation in recognition for their
distinguished performance.
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