1. What are the objectives behind establishing the King Abdullah II Award for Excellence for Business Associations - Mark of "Best Practice"?
2. What are the stages for achieving "King Abdullah II Award for Excellence" for Business Associations?
3. What are the Mark of "Best Practice" criteria?
4. What are the benefits of participating in the mark of "Best Practice"?
5. How can we achieve King Abdullah II Award for Excellence for Business Associations?
6. What is the process of participating in the mark of "Best Practice"?
7. What are the associations that achieved the mark of "Best Practice" for Business Associations in the First Cycle 2006?
8. What is the organization that is responsible for managing "King Abdullah II Award for Excellence for Business Associations"?
9. What are the Awards managed by the Center?
10. What are the Center's Objectives?
11. How can I receive the latest information and news about the Center and the Awards?
12. How can I send any inquiries, suggestions of complains to the Center?

1. What are the objectives behind establishing the King Abdullah II Award for Excellence for Business Associations – Mark of "Best Practice"?

The objective of establishing the Mark of “Best Practice” is to serve as a means of setting standards for business associations based on international best practices. The Mark provides a strong incentive for business associations to continually improve to serve their members, as well as the public and private sectors.

Mark of “Best Practice” for business associations has been created in response    to the business associations’ increasingly important role in the growth of Jordan’s economy, especially with respect to competitiveness, exports, and investment.

Much of the private sector’s coordinated efforts in promoting Jordan’s economy are due to the role of business associations, which have emerged as important advocates for market friendly reforms to accelerate private sector-led economic growth. At the same time, business associations are delivering valuable business development services to their members, including management training and networking that enhance those members’ marketing abilities, and consequently contribute positively to the Jordanian economy.

                1.Mark of “Best Practice”
                2.“Seal of Excellence”
                3.“King Abdullah II Award for Excellence for Business Associations”

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1. Vision, Mission and Strategy.
2. Association’s Documents Status.
3. Governance.
4. Finances and Resources Management.
5. Membership and Programs.
6. Advocacy.
7. Human Resources.
8. Marketing and Communication.
9. Corporate Social Responsibility.

• Each participating business association receives a feedback report, outlining the main strengths and areas for improvement. This report helps the association improve its management system and performance.

• The participating business associations have access to the references and books available at the Center’s library provided by the “ASAE & the Center for Association Leadership”.

• The Mark of “Best Practice” achievers can benchmark their associations internationally with the existing research data and statistics provided by “ASAE & the Center for Association Leadership”.

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Mark of “Best Practice” must be achieved twice in order to be eligible to apply for the “Seal of Excellence”. Business associations should show continuous improvement and maturity in their management system before competing for the “King Abdullah II Award for Excellence”, which is the most prestigious excellence award for business associations in Jordan.

1. As a first step towards achieving the Mark, interested business associations shall complete the self-assessment questionnaire that measures their readiness to achieve the Mark. The self assessment is completed and submitted through the Mark’s website (www.kaabas.jo)

2. After submitting the self assessment to the King Abdullah II Center for Excellence, the Center studies the answers and sends a brief notification to those who are ready to officially participate, or prepares a feedback report for the business associations that need to work on certain areas related to the criteria highlighting an action plan.

3. The qualified business associations who proceed with the application prepare answers to the criteria questions, and necessary support documents to be submitted to the Center.

4. The Board of Trustees appoints the members of the Approved Assessors’ Panel after passing the assessment training course.

5. The assessment process is carried out by a team of assessors selected by the Center from the Approved Assessors’ Panel.

6. Each assessor in the team evaluates the answers and attached documents independently, and prepares an independent assessment report detailing the areas for improvement, strengths and site visit issues. The assessor also reflects their assessment findings in the independent scoring sheet.

7. The assessment team meets to reach a consensus, and prepares a consensus report detailing the areas of improvement, strengths and site visit issues. The assessors also reflect their assessment findings in the consensus scoring sheet.

8. The assessment team conducts the site visit assessment to collect evidence of what has been included in the application and to generate a bigger picture of the association being assessed.

9. At the end of the assessment process, the assessment team prepares the final report detailing the strengths and areas for improvement and reflects them in the final scoring sheet.

10. All reports prepared by the assessment team (independent, consensus and final) are forwarded to the Center for review.

11. The Center assigns an Assessment Committee to discuss the final results with the Steering Committee.

12. The Steering Committee raises its recommendations to the Board of Trustees who determines the achievers of the Mark of “Best Practice”.

13. After announcing the results, each association participating in the Award receives an assessment report based on the Award’s criteria clarifying its strengths and areas for improvement, to help it achieve continuous improvement on its performance.

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1. Information Technology Association of Jordan(INTAJ)
2. Jordan Exporters and Producers Association for Fruit and Vegetables(JEPA)
3. Young Entrepreneurs Association(YEA)
4. Jordan Forum for Business and Professional Women(JFBPW)

The King Abdullah II Center for Excellence (KACE), whish is a non-for-profit organization. KACE was founded in January 2006 according to Bylaw Number (6) of the Year 2006, KACE manages the ‘King Abdullah II Award for Excellence’, which is considered the most prestigious award for excellence on the national level and in all sectors.

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1. “King Abdullah II Award for Excellence in Government Performance and Transparency” - Public Sector / www.kaa.jo
2. “King Abdullah II Award for Excellence” – Private Sector / www.kaaps.jo
3. “King Abdullah II Award for Excellence” – Business Associations Sector / www.kaabas.jo

The Center aims at:
A. Promoting the culture of excellence through promoting awareness about concepts of distinguished performance, innovation and quality in line with international excellence models.

B. Providing a reference guide and setting a criteria benchmarked with international best practices for measuring the level of progress and development in the performance of government institutions, companies and non-governmental associations and enhancing positive competitiveness among them.

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The Center updates its website, and the Awards' websites on daily basis. It  also publishes the latest news in the daily newspapers, and sends formal letters  to the participating organizations to inform them about the Award stages.

You can contact the Center by sending email to info@kace.jo, or Telephone  06 5828 564, or fax 06 5828 694. Also, there is a suggestions box in the Center's premises in Swefieh.

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