Minister

H.E Eng. Yazan AlShdaifat

 

Personal Information

Place and Date of Birth: Mafraq - 11/8/1988

Current Position: Minister of Youth

Academic Qualification:

Bachelor of Civil Engineering

 

Positions held:

Deputy Chairman of the Executive Office of the Council of Arab Youth and Sports Ministers.

Chairman of the Technical Youth Committee Auxiliary to the Council of Arab Youth and Sports Ministers.

Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hussein Bin Abdullah II Award for Voluntary Work.

Chairman of the Management Committee of the National Fund for Supporting the Youth and Sports Movement.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Youth Leadership Preparation Center.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Youth Cities Clubs.

Member of the Board of Directors of Generations for Peace.

Member of the Board of Directors of the Jordanian Motor Sports.

Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jordanian Olympic Committee.

Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Voluntary Work.

Chairman of the Supreme Steering Committee of the National Youth Strategy

 

The most important positions he held:

Member of the 19th Parliament.

Member of the Jordanian Engineers Association.

Member of the All Jordan Youth Commission.

Assistant to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Head of the Parliamentary Administrative Committee for two parliamentary sessions.

Member of the Labor, Social Development and Population Committee.

Member of several parliamentary friendship and brotherhood associations.

Activist in youth, social and volunteer work.

 

 

General Information

Regulating the youth’s capabilities and investing them in a manner that best achieves their active participation in sustainable human development, and entrenching the values of teamwork and volunteerism.

Encouraging the youth to exercise leisure sports for the purpose of developing physical fitness and self-control.

The  Duties and Authorities:

1. Setting the national policy for sponsoring youth and setting plans and programs necessary to achieve the policy in cooperation and coordination with the parties concerned, for the purpose of unifying efforts and employing the various capabilities.

2. Licensing youth clubs and organizations.

3. Establishing and supervising youth centers, and setting programs and plans capable of achieving their objectives in accordance with directives set by the Council for this purpose.

4. Sponsoring youth with special needs, regulating the investment of their capabilities and providing them with opportunities to exercise youth activities.

5. Highlighting the capabilities of gifted and talented youth, and adopting plans and programs capable of achieving them.

6. Representing the Kingdom in Arab and international parties and organizations concerned, both official and local ones, organizing youth exchange, and signing agreements with them.

7. Proposing legislations related to youth sponsorship.

8. Determining the fees for services provided by the Council in line with instructions issued for this purpose.

9. Forming committees that it deems necessary for assisting it in performing its duties.

The  Responsibilities:

The Council manages and supervises (65) youth centers, of which (40) centers are for males and (25) centers are for females, spread throughout the Kingdom.

(3) sports cities in Amman, Irbid and Zarqa.

(13) sports complexes in governorates and districts.

(6) youth camps spread throughput the Kingdom.

(7) youth hostels spread throughout the Kingdom.

The Council provides financial and material support for (281) sports, cultural, social clubs throughout the Kingdom.

The Council issued (45) books in a series of youth cultural education regarding our national, pan-Arab and urban principles and the skills of modern life. The Council maintains the policy of issuing this series of books.

The Council has a special magazine (The Youth Magazine), which is a youth forum concerned with youth issues, and is distributed to youth in Jordan and abroad.

An artistic group made of men and women concerned with the local Jordanian culture was qualified and it represented Jordan in a number of youth gatherings abroad and has achieved honorable results.

The Council signed a number of bilateral protocols and agreements with several brotherly Arab countries and other friendly countries.

The Council has extraordinary activity in cooperation with non-governmental international and local organizations concerned with youth issues.

The Council activates the Law for the Youth and Sports Activity Support Fund.

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