In December 2005, Nader Tadros, People's Advocacy Director, worked with Chemonics International’s USAID-funded AMIR Program of Jordan to provide one-week training session on Advocacy Concepts and Practices for government agencies that deal with setting and monitoring economic policies in Jordan.  This training was followed by individualized sessions to some of these agencies to develop actual advocacy campaigns. Organizers considered the training as an important success, with participants giving the trainer and content of the sessions high marks and stating that the materials are useful for their work in advocating for policy reforms.

The National Procurement Committee seemed to benefit the most of all groups from the individualized sessions and prepared an advocacy campaign to promote a new procurement regulation.

In March 06, Nader Tadros went back to Jordan to assist the National Procurement Committee in designing a campaign strategy to garner support from Cabinet and key entities to pass new procurement legislation. Accordingly, their advocacy campaign centered on this issue and proposed a methodology to organize a public forum in which the pros and cons of a new procurement regulation would be discussed.

The focus of this consultancy was to support the National Procurement Committee in implementing its proposed advocacy campaign, which is to culminate in a public forum to be held in June 2006. The output of this scope of work would be a detailed agenda and timeline for the forum, explanations of processes to be followed, and possibly initial correspondence with key speakers.