Sama is currently conducting a large-scale KAP study under the Himaya Activity, examining the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of more than 2,100 frontline service providers involved in responding to domestic and sexual violence across the Family Protection and Juveniles Department, Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Interior, and the judiciary.
Client:Himaya Activity
Year:2025
Country:Jordan
This study examines Jordan’s care economy across three groups: children aged 0–5, older people, and persons with disabilities. It asks who needs direct care and support, how those needs are currently met, under what conditions, what prevents families from accessing alternatives, and how Jordan can finance and govern a stronger care system.
Client:International Labor Organization
Year:2026
Country:Jordan
Sama conducted an OH assessment to generate credible, evidence-based insights into the changes associated with CARE Jordan’s MHPSS intervention in Azraq Camp and CARE’s plausible contribution to those changes. The assessment was designed to surface the most significant changes that have occurred, examined the evidence for CARE’s role in producing them, identified where that contribution is strong and where it is partial or constrained, and generated actionable recommendations grounded in an honest reading of the evidence.
Client:Care International
Year:2026
Country:Jordan
Sama conducted the midterm evaluation of a multi-year child labour and child protection project implemented by Save the Children Jordan . Working across Amman, Irbid, and Balqa, the project targeted Syrian refugee and host-community households through an integrated systems-strengthening model combining direct prevention and response services for children affected by or at risk of child labour, capacity-building of national protection institutions and civil society partners.
Client:Save the Children
Year:2026
Country:Jordan
Sama conducted the evaluation of a multi-year SecDev Foundation programme addressing technology-facilitated violence against women and girls in Egypt. The evaluation adopted a formative, learning-oriented contribution lens, examining institutional change at partner CSOs, professional and editorial change among journalists, and the uptake of digital safety resources. Findings informed final-phase implementation decisions and future donor programming in restrictive civic-space contexts.
Client:SECDEV
Year:2026
Country:Egypt
Sama served as the technical advisor for a national study commissioned by the National Council for Family Affairs under the UK-funded Strengthening Societal and Economic Resilience in Jordan programme. The study examined older persons’ access to pensions, income security, health and care needs, and family support networks, applying a gender and life-course lens. Findings contributed to enhance the evidence base to inform the Jordanian National Strategy for the Elderly (2025–2030) and policy dialogue on expanding multi-tiered social protection and pension coverage.
Client:Shamil Project
Year:2025
Country:Jordan
Sama has been supporting ECO Consult in conducting Gender and Human Rights Risk Assessments as part of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment process for renewable energy projects across several countries. The assessments aimed to identify risks such as potential human rights violations, limitations on workers' ability to act or access remedies, and key gender-related risks. The findings helped inform mitigation measures to ensure that project implementation respects human rights and promotes gender inclusion.
Client:Eco Consult
Year:2024
Country:Iraq, KSA, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan
In 2024, the Jordanian government mandated NCFA to lead the development of a national ECCD policy. Sama supported this work through a structured and participatory approach, ensuring the policy was evidence-based, grounded, and forward-looking.
Client:National Council for Family Affairs
Year:2024
Country:Jordan
Output:Report
Sama supported the Tawasol team in Iraq in defining, measuring, and documenting the Youth Empowerment Index. The index is designed to assess the economic empowerment of female and male youth in Iraq, and is rooted in a participatory methodology that centers the voices and lived realities of youth themselves.
Client:WUSC Iraq
Year:2025
Country:Iraq
The objective of this assessment is to conduct a gender and social inclusion analysis in seven target communities. This will involve gender-sensitive community assessments to examine key social and gender dynamics, and the potential impact of CfW activities on gender roles, social interactions, and the acceptance and integration of refugees within these communities.
Client:UNOPS
Year:2025
Country:Jordan
Sama is leading a gender mainstreaming assessment for EFE Jordan, aimed at strengthening the organization’s institutional capacity to advance gender equality across its operations, programs, and internal culture. The assignment includes a comprehensive gender assessment process, the development of a Gender Action Plan, and capacity building for staff and trainers.
Client:EFE Jordan
Year:2025
Country:Jordan
In 2024, Plan International Jordan entrusted Sama Consulting to guide the development of its new Country Strategy for 2025-2029. This partnership embraced strategic planning as more than just a process—it became a journey of learning and meaningful stakeholder engagement. Through a dynamic two-stage approach, we ensured that insights and results from each phase directly shaped and strengthened the foundation of PIJO’s future strategy.
Client:Plan International
Year:2024
Country:Jordan
Sama conducted the Baseline Study of the BUCRA project, a five-year collaborative initiative implemented by WUSC that ultimately aims to enhance economic empowerment for women in Jordan. BUCRA takes a systems approach, engaging and supporting local stakeholders to drive gender-transformative change and address the most pressing childcare issues preventing women from participating in the workforce.
Client:WUSC
Year:2024
Country:Jordan
“Water and Sanitation for Syrian Refugees and Host Communities” is a project that aims to improve water supply and sanitation infrastructure in the Northern Governorates of Irbid, Mafraq, Ajloun and Jerash. The project includes specific interventions focusing on enhancing water and wastewater infrastructure of selected vulnerable households in the targeted areas. Sama is conducting an initial vulnerability assessment with 1,500 households in the targeted governorates to assess overall vulnerability as well as WASH needs.
Client:Water Authority of Jordan
Year:2024
Country:Jordan
In 2023, we conducted the endline evaluation WE LEAD, a 7-year project designed and implemented by the World University Service of Canada. The project aimed to increase women’s economic empowerment in Jordan in the health and childcare sectors, with a budget of $9.993 million CAD.
Client:WUSC
Year:2023
Country:Jordan
In late January and early February of 2023, artists, activists, and cultural practitioners from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) gathered in the Jordanian capital of Amman for the AFSC's latest convention in the region, which was organized and facilitated by Sama Consulting.
Client:AFSC
Year:2023
Country:Jordan
Output:Report
Climate change has created unprecedented changes to environmental patterns across the Arab States region. The social implications of climate change are, importantly, not gender neutral. There is a significant gap in literature on the ways that climate change amplifies gender-based inequalities.
Client:UNDP
Year:2022
Country:Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen
Output:Report
Art in all its forms, can provide inspiration and hope, foster a sense of solidarity between people who might otherwise feel disconnected or be in conflict with each other, and give people a sense of pride in their identities even when those identities are under attack.
Client:AFSC
Year:2022
Country:MENA
Output:Report
Al-Aman Fund provides education to the boarding orphans who have resided in orphan care centers for part of, or all their childhood as well as the non-boarding orphans who live in poverty with a guardian or an immediate relative and are supported by orphan support organizations.
Client:Al Aman Fund
Year:2022
Country:Jordan
While everyone everywhere is subject to the effects of climate change, women and girls face heightened risks. This project explores the impact of climate change on women and girls in Jordan with a particular focus on gender-based violence (GBV).
Client:UNFPA
Year:2022
Country:Jordan
Output:Research brief
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