About us

Climate Action Network Jordan (CAN)

Identity: Climate Action Network Jordan is an environmental NGO founded in 2013 and based in Amman. It was the first environmental organization in the Middle East focused on climate-change solutions and operates under Jordan’s Ministry of Environment.

Structure:CAN is governed by a Board of Directors of climate and sustainability experts. Its Executive Team manages daily operations and includes 21 full-time employees—8 men and 13 women, including 18 university graduates or higher—as well as more than 25 volunteers. CAN has six technical departments, supported by administration, finance, and monitoring and evaluation units, and is rated “Low Risk” by BDO International.

Mission: CAN promotes climate action through partnerships among communities, businesses, government, and public institutions. It strengthens stakeholder capacity, supports sustainable societies and cities, and prioritizes vulnerable groups such as children, women, refugees, farmers, persons with disabilities, internally displaced people, minorities, and other marginalized communities.

Impact: CAN has implemented successful projects, partnerships, and research; joined regional and international environmental networks; and coordinated grants from the EU, FAO, UNICEF, UNEP, ACTED, and Jordan’s Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation. It also advocates for climate action in Jordanian policies and collaborates with ministries, civil-society organizations, municipalities, and local commun

Vision

We envision a community where there is safe water, green energy, sustainable ecosystem, inclusion infrastructure, and a resilient economy.

Mission

Build a resilient community to climate change through the mobilization of knowledge, enhanced institutional capacity, informed decision-making processes, and facilitate access to finance and technologies.

Core Operating values

Transparency and Credibility

Transparency is a core value of CAN. It is manifest in the CAN’s disclosure of all activities and projects and its commitment to giving access to all those seeking information in a credible, transparent, swift, and precise fashion and in accordance with the law. The goal is to strengthen oversight and accountability

Excellence and Creativity

CAN views excellence as a deep-rooted culture at the individual and organizational levels. Therefore, it continuously strives to improve performance and excellence by applying universal excellence standards, encouraging creativity and innovation, and incorporating concepts related to creativity into CAN’s business model, making it an actionable policy

Team Work

In its workplace environment, CAN and its employees always push for teamwork, cooperation, and sharing of expertise to realize CAN’s goals and ensure integration.

Cooperation

CAN always pursue partnerships, cooperation, and flexible integration with partners and stakeholders to achieve common interests and realize CAN’s goal of conserving and sustaining the environment and its components

Justice

CAN pursues and observes justice in all of its policies and operations in a manner that guarantees fairness to all employees and customers. To achieve this, CAN applies non-discriminatory laws and policies that ensure that decisions are made in a responsive, participatory, and inclusive manner at all levels

Commitment and Responsibility

CAN and its employees cherish the commitment and responsibility toward the community as a basic value without which the CAN’s environmental protection goals cannot be achieved. Therefore, CAN continues to entrench the values of loyalty and responsibility among its employees through better application of laws, regulations, and codes of conduct