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Good Practices and Innovations in Public Governance 2003-2011

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2008 Category 3: Jordan<br />

• Private sector (vocational unions, private hospitals, Amman Chamber of Commerce<br />

<strong>and</strong> Industry, the Perform<strong>in</strong>g Arts centre); <strong>and</strong><br />

• NGOs (Jordanian Hashimite Fund for Human Development, Queesn Ze<strong>in</strong> Al-<br />

Sharaf Institute for Development, Noor Al-Husse<strong>in</strong> Foundation, the Jordanian<br />

Commission for Family Plann<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> Protection, the National Council for<br />

Family Affairs’ Arab Women’s Organisation of Jordan).<br />

A national team composed of all concerned national <strong>in</strong>stitutes, m<strong>in</strong>istries, private<br />

sector <strong>and</strong> NGOs was established, <strong>in</strong> cooperation with a Consultants Support Team<br />

CST-UNFPA <strong>and</strong> was assigned the follow<strong>in</strong>g goals:<br />

• Decrease population growth rate to 2.1% by 2010, 1.5% by 2020;<br />

• Decrease total fertility rate to 2.9% by 2010, 2.1 by 2020;<br />

• Increase contraceptive prevalence rate to 65% by 2010, 70+ by 2020;<br />

• Decrease maternal mortality ratio to 33.5% by 2010,

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