AMMAN – The Prime Minister and President of the Development and Employment Fund, Mr. Faisal Al Fayez, issued a decision to lift loan allocations to nine million Jordanian dinars for the current year in comparison to last year's 2.5 million dinars.
The Director General of the Fund, Mr. Ali Al-Ghazzawi, said that the decision came in response to the increasing demand on the fund's services which was influenced by the labour sector's Steering Committee's media campaign for and the Fund's efforts to reach the targeted segments of society across the Kingdom through knowledge stations, national assistance funds and mobile units.
On a different note, Al-Ghazzawi revealed that the Fund has signed an agreement for consulting services with the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh and Co. as a preparatory step to develop and apply a quality management system and obtain the ISO 9001 certification issued in the year 2000.
Al-Ghazzawi pointed that the agreement includes the provision of the necessary training services in quality systems that comply with the specifications of ISO 9001.