During the previous fifty years, JAFPP has become a leading organization ranking high among other civil society institutions and enjoying credibility among local and international bodies. The ongoing developing process of JAFPP was the most important key factor behind JAFPP’s success and achievements. The developing process included updating the administrative, financial and technical systems to meet the needs of the community and in line with its mission, vision and objectives.
Despite the financial challenges that JAFPP faced during recent years, it succeeded at achieving the following:
Developing its Clinics, Programs and Services
In 2013, the JAFPP deliver its services to more than 81,000 women with a record of 176,000 visits to its clinics at a rate of 30 visits per day for each clinic (Number of clinics increased in 2015 to 23 clinic after establishing 6 new clinics), thanks to the renovations and re-equipment undertaken during the couple previous years. This effort was culminated by receiving an accreditation award from the Health Care Accreditation Council to its Sports City clinic “in recognition of compliance with the HCAC hospital accreditation standards.” Work is underway
to obtain this award for the remaining clinic.
The development dimensions, on the administration and organizational levels, can be summed as follows:
- Developing a new organizational system for the association that adheres to the delegation of authorities and responsibilities in management from the administrative board to the executive manager and on to the executive managers.
- Upgrading the administrative and financial systems of JAFPP to enable it to issue accurate data reflecting its current position.
- Re-formulating JAFPP’s five-year strategic plans from 2000 to date and overseeing its implementation.
- Developing the information management systems responsible for issuing the statistical reports and performance indicators for the clinics and providing technical support to maintain the computers, printers, network, and association’s website management.
- Formulating a code of ethics document to be adopted by all JAFPP employees, members of the board of directors and members of the general assembly, which regulates the code of conduct among JAFPP staff,prospective clients, funding agencies and other persons or institutions.
- Developing and implementing a quality control system as well as setting up a training center in JAFPP’s building. The development process also included the training programs offered by the association that benefitted many workers in the field of reproductive health in Jordan and other countries such as Sudan and Palestine. JAFPP also developed and implemented awareness programs targeting the youth and men along with the programs targeting females.
Developing Strategic Partnership with Local and International Government Entities
JAFPP’s focus on providing reproductive health and family planning services granted it local and international recognition for the role it is undertaking in providing modern family planning methods to all
According to the Population and Family Health survey of 2012, the JAFPP holds the third place among the private sector providing family planning services at 10.6 percent. It comes second reaching 19 percent in providing the service of implanting intrauterine device (IUD), the most popular modern family planning method in Jordan, at a 19(Population and Family Health Survey 2012 Report p 66).
JAFPP has achieved the following:
- Becoming a member of the Higher Council of Population, which draws the strategies to control population growth in Jordan and which considers JAFPP as an active and key partner in the field of family planning.
- Receiving King Abdullah II Center for Excellence Certificate in 2013 Phase I for establishing and applying the criteria of the Mark of “Best Practices.”
- Getting mentioned in school textbooks as one of the Jordanian civil society organizations specialized in family planning and protection--a testimony to JAFPP’s distinguished positioning.
- Developing a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Health that supplies JAFPP with modern family planning methods
Developing and Building Relationships with Donor Agencies
JAFPP’s credibility and reputation were factors in attracting many donors agencies that funded various projects and programs in the field of reproductive health and family planning at JAFPP, such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), as well as many embassies.. The funding assisted the JAFPP to obtain ownership of all its clinics, refurbish and requip them. It erected a medical complex in its donated land in Aqaba that was rented out as clinics and shops adding to the income of the association.