Funding and oversight partner
Future Skills Fund
The Future Skills Fund is an active funding and oversight partner in Jordan. It funded the completed AI.SPIRE implementation and supports work beyond it, including the cybersecurity and digital forensics program now in development. It is one example of the kind of funding and oversight structure LevelUp can help design with local partners.
At a glance
What a funder-side operating partner contributes.
Funding is the visible part. The harder contribution is the coordination that lets several organizations deliver one program.
- Role
- Funding mechanism and operational oversight for the AI.SPIRE implementation.
- Ecosystem
- Connected to Jordan's wider youth and skills agenda. One market's version of a structure that takes a different form in each.
- Programs supported
- AI.SPIRE, completed July 2026 — 48 learners certified.
- Delivery partners
- LevelUp Economy for curriculum and delivery; Istidama Consulting for local operations.
The contribution
Capital, clarity, and a route into the national agenda.
Funding
Capital that supports capability
Funding the operating model lets the program aim at durable capability.
Oversight
Operational clarity
The funder role helps align stakeholders, track delivery against what was agreed, and keep the work connected to its larger goals.
Ecosystem
A bridge into the skills agenda
The fund connected AI.SPIRE to a broader national focus on youth opportunity and economic participation. A lead partner elsewhere might be a ministry, a university, an employer coalition, or a workforce agency; what matters is the alignment.
Funding logic
Turning capital into coordinated implementation.
In the LevelUp model, funding does the most work when it strengthens the whole system: curriculum, delivery, employer relevance, reporting, and the pathways that come next.
Phase 01
Set the mandate
Clarify what the initiative needs to accomplish for learners, employers, institutions, and the wider economy before delivery begins.
Phase 02
Fund the delivery architecture
Support the operating model behind curriculum development, hybrid delivery, learner support, and partner coordination — not the classroom hours alone.
Phase 03
Maintain accountability
Use oversight and reporting to keep implementation visible and aligned with what stakeholders were told to expect.
Phase 04
Build a platform for what follows
Use what AI.SPIRE taught to inform future programs, including the cybersecurity and digital forensics work and technical readiness programs in other markets.
A funder who only pays for delivery gets delivery. A funder who funds the architecture around it — curriculum development, partner coordination, employer engagement, reporting — gets something the region can run again without them. That is the arrangement this initiative is structured around.
Related
Where this sits in the rest of the work.
Initiative
AI.SPIRE
The completed Applied AI and ML Systems pathway this funding and oversight structure supported.
Capability area
Align capital
How LevelUp works with funders to point capital at the parts of a system that make delivery repeatable.
Get involved
Fund this work
What funding a cohort, a pathway, or a regional program involves, and what a funder gets back.
Next step
Fund a pathway in your region.
Foundations, public funders, and philanthropic partners can back a cohort, a pathway, or the delivery architecture around both.