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A Decade of Impact.. How the Crown Prince Foundation Provided a Wider Space for Youth Ambition

Over the course of this decade, the map of work has expanded across three interconnected paths: economic participation, leadership, and sustainable community development. Under this umbrella, the Al-Hussein Technical University, the Advanced Vocational Training College, "42 Amman" and "42 Irbid", "Jordan Coders", "Maker Space", the "Al-Hussein Fellowship Program", the "Leadership Program for Schools", and the "Nahno" platform for volunteering emerged. These programs vary in their tools, but they meet at one goal: preparing a young person who possesses the knowledge, confidence, and ability to turn their idea into an achievement.

The numbers, in turn, paint part of the story, as the Foundation’s work system includes more than 14 qualitative programs, extending daily across 26 locations in various governorates, while its opportunities reach more than 2.2 million young men and women annually. But what lies behind the numbers is more significant: a training opportunity that reached a village, a digital skill that opened a job door, and a youth idea that found someone to embrace it until it became a project. In the "With Youth" series, which launched from Ma'an to celebrate the ten-year anniversary, these stories appeared with the faces of their owners; young people who transferred the impact of their experiences to hundreds of others in freelancing, environment, and digital manufacturing.

At the heart of this movement, the "Tawasol" forum has established its presence as a national space that brings together youth with experts and decision-makers, and places issues of education, technology, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, and economic and social reform on the discussion table. As for its fourth edition in 2026, it carried a more comprehensive dimension; its activities extended to the Foundation’s offices and display screens in the governorates, so that knowledge left the limits of the hall, and dialogue became available to the youth of the nation across its breadth.

After ten years, the message seems clearer: investing in youth is not a seasonal activity, but a long-term national choice. With the acceleration of digital transformation and changing labor market requirements, the question shifts from the volume of what has been achieved to how to multiply its impact. Here, the challenge of the next decade emerges: training that leads to measurable employment opportunities, scalable initiatives, and deeper partnerships between the public, private, and civil society sectors, while youth remain partners in designing programs, not just beneficiaries of them.

Celebrating ten years of impact is not a pause at the past as much as it is an announcement of a new beginning. Institutions are measured by their ability to make success repeatable, and to make every empowered young person a starting point for a wider impact. This is the bet with which the Crown Prince Foundation moves towards its second decade: closer opportunities, a stronger youth voice, and a Jordan that builds its future with the hands of its children, their knowledge, and their confidence that they are capable of making a difference.

The celebration is majestic, with its royal presence represented by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, may God protect him, and with the wide participation of creative Jordanian youth, capable of seizing opportunities despite difficult regional challenges. Congratulations to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince on this achievement, the impact of which we have felt in various governorates. May God protect Jordan, under the leadership of His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein, and its people and persevering youth.

Former Minister of Water, Irrigation, and Agriculture

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