Jordan is one of the Mashreq countries that was the most impacted by the adverse regional developments, in particular the Syrian and Iraq crisis. Since the start of the regional turmoil, Jordan has been facing major challenges related to the massive refugee influx across its borders; the large number of refugees entering the country is having a strong impact on the […]

The World Bank Group is engaged in a comprehensive “Program for Results” intervention in Jordan, which  is supported by a parallel advisory program called the Jordan Investment Promotion Program. Furthermore, a revised free-trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) presents a good opportunity to strengthen Jordan’s manufacturing base through attracting new foreign investment in 18 designated […]

Alarming threats have been rising due to the catastrophic consequences a failure of the Mosul Dam would have on people and infrastructure. Along the Tigris River, where the flood is expected to flow reaching as far as the capital Baghdad, many industrial facilities and infrastructures host a wide variety of hazardous and toxic materials that […]

The World Bank is implementing a business networks intervention in which small groups of Syrian and Jordanian entrepreneurs and business owners regularly meet to discuss business issues and establish new partnerships. This intervention facilitates business interactions between and among immigrants and locals, reducing knowledge gaps, building trust, and improving supplier-client matching.  The main objective of […]

In our continuous strive to expand and enrich our consulting services, we have formally affiliated ourselves through an acquisition with a Serbia based firm TN-TECH. The acquisition is an extension to a long-term cooperation with TN-TECH’s founders since 2008; one of TN-TECH’s founders is an alum of the id:rc. Consequently, the decision to partner in […]

The id:rc is part of a consortium led by Chemonics International that was just awarded this 5-year USAID project to make municipal governance more effective in Jordan.  The project will develop innovative and sustainable solutions to service delivery, capacity constraints, and community cohesion in Jordanian governance structures that are closest to citizens and best able to […]

This operation is intended to support the Government of Iraq (GoI) in meeting the dual challenge of reconstructing and restoring services to liberated municipal areas while laying the foundations for longer-term development. Given the emergency nature of the project, it is designed to implement rapidly, especially during Year 1 of the project. The main project […]

JICA is implementing tourism project in Jordan and the West Bank for the purpose of establishing peace through development of tourism and spurring  the tourism in this regions. The image of this regions is actually suffered because of the conflicts and insecure incidents make negative influence on tourism in this regions.  To this end, the […]

The id:rc was just contracted by the Aqaba Development Corporation to implement a comprehensive audit and assessment of KPI’s related to port operations and the efficiency of the operator managing the terminal.  The assignment also assesses how the operator is complying with targets set out early in the contractual process with ADC according to the […]

GIZ is intervening in a number of Jordanian communities that have have been impacted by the influx of Syrian refugees. The interventions are mainly focused on water distribution services in those communities. The overall objective of this assignment is to identify the key stakeholders and players in the communities selected for such GIZ intervention. This […]

The id:rc has just been contracted to conduct an end line survey for the Community Based Initiatives for Water Demand Management project funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Mercy Corps. The program is designed to reduce social and economic impact of water resource limitations in communities of Jordan with […]

A Tanzanian freight and cargo logistics company has recently requested US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) funding for a feasibility study that would help to review the technical, economic, environmental and other aspects of building new port infrastructure near the Mtwara Freeport Zone (MFZ) in southeastern Tanzania. The id:rc was just contracted by USTDA to […]

The influx of Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan of Iraq and together with the IDP population have put huge pressures on the local environment, and have degraded the ecological resource base in Iraq. The added burden in the form of accumulated solid waste and improper disposal of waste go far beyond the local capacities to […]

Within the framework of the GIZ funded “Improved Water Resources Security for Low Income Rural and Urban Communities (WRAP)” project, water network installation and rehabilitation were undertaken in five selected areas in the Kingdom. All such locations had problems in water delivery or were even deprived totally form municipal water supply. Improvements included installation of […]

id:rc is part of a consortium led by Segura Consulting that has just been awarded the USAID funded “Making Cities Work” (MCO) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IDIQ). The goal of MCO is to provide access to short- and long-term technical services, training, and capacity-building related to improving urban and local governance in improved urban and local […]

The id:rc has just been selected by the Jordan Competitiveness Program to implement a survey of a representative sample of firms in clusters that the JCP is working in to calculate competitiveness scores for each cluster, and for all clusters in combination to help strengthen the competitiveness of Jordanian firms, resulting in increased employment, foreign […]

Continuing our cooperation with the Asian Development Bank, the id:rc was just awarded a contract to undertake an environmental evaluation of an urban transport project in Azerbaijan. This came following a request made by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Transport and the Baku Metro Company, to ADB to help improve its urban transport system and provide […]

As a continuation to its previous work under the JICA funded Salt Tourism Project, the id:rc was selected by the project implementing firm, Kaihatsu Management Consulting Inc., to undertake the end of project evaluation to assess the project’s impacts and successes. The project is part of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities’ efforts to put […]

As part of a pilot project to promote the city of Sulaimania in northern Iraq as part of the global “Safer Cities” programme, UNWomen contracted the id:rc to carry out a survey of women and girls in central downtown Sulaimania to help identify those areas of the central city that are considered to be less […]