Amman, July 23 (Petra) – The Ministry of Water and Irrigation has completed the first phase of an institutional modernization project aimed at enhancing governance, improving efficiency and strengthening transparency across the water sector.
The project, which covered key organizational units, is part of efforts to strengthen institutional performance, improve risk management and support evidence-based decision-making in line with public sector modernization goals.
Water and Irrigation Minister Raed Abu Saud said the initiative establishes governance frameworks by linking strategic performance indicators with strategic risk indicators, enabling the ministry to better monitor performance, anticipate challenges and enhance institutional effectiveness.
He said the current phase focuses on building institutional capacity in enterprise design to help the water sector identify and implement initiatives aligned with the Public Sector Modernization Roadmap, the Economic Modernization Vision, enterprise risk management principles, and national integrity and anti-corruption standards.
Abu Saud said the project involves comprehensive business modeling to redefine services across the sector, document procedures and responsibilities, identify service delivery points, and map the human, technical, and financial resources required to provide operational and support services more effectively.
He added that the ministry has completed the initial business modeling of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, the Jordan Valley Authority and the Water Authority of Jordan, with the next phase extending the process to affiliated water companies.
Reviewing the project's progress, Abu Saud described the initiative as a cornerstone of an integrated governance system that moves beyond documenting procedures to become a strategic management tool supporting data-driven decision-making, institutional efficiency and sustainable service delivery.
He stressed that successful institutional transformation depends on accurately measuring performance and proactively identifying risks through an advanced system of strategic risk indicators, helping ensure service continuity and the sustainable management of human and financial resources.
The minister directed the project team and the implementing company to complete the remaining phases efficiently while continuously updating the business models. He said the initiative supports Prime Minister Jafar Hassan's directives to advance the Economic Modernization Vision and Public Sector Modernization Roadmap while reinforcing integrity and transparency across government institutions.
Water Authority of Jordan Secretary-General Sufyan Bataineh said the business modeling project creates a unified operational framework for core and support functions throughout Jordan's water and irrigation sector, helping standardize processes and improve institutional performance.
He said developing strategic performance indicators and linking them with strategic risk indicators for a complex sector such as water and irrigation is a significant undertaking. To support the effort, the ministry and the implementing company have developed specialized artificial intelligence-powered tools to analyze job descriptions and operational procedures, accelerating the business modeling process.
Bataineh added that the ministry is implementing training and capacity-building programs for employees at the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, the Jordan Valley Authority, the Water Authority of Jordan and affiliated companies to ensure the project's sustainability and institutionalize expertise across the sector.
//Petra// AJ
