To be the primary catalyst towards developing a more internationally competitive Jordan.

King Abdullah II Center for Excellence aims at promoting a culture of excellence in Jordan and the Region through developing excellence frameworks and assessment criteria based on international best practices, assessing organizations' performance, managing King Abdullah II awards for excellence and promoting excellence to public sector, private sector, not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations

The Center aims at:-

1. Promoting the culture of excellence through promoting awareness about concepts of distinguished performance, innovation and quality in line with international excellence models.
2. Providing a reference guide and setting a criteria benchmarked with international best practices for the participating organizations in the King Abdullah II Awards for Excellence in all sectors.
3. Measuring the progress and improvement in public sector institutions' performance and enrich the positive competition among them.

According to the Center’s bylaw, the Board consists of the Chairman, who is appointed by a Royal Decree, and not less than nine experienced and qualified members appointed by the Chairman for a period of two years subject to renewal.

The Executive Director reports directly to the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and is responsible for implementing the decisions of the Board of Trustees.

• The King Abdullah II Center for Excellence received in 2007the “Committed to Excellence” Certificate, which is awarded by the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), which is considered the leading international organization concerned with excellence of performance. With this achievement, the Center becomes the first organization in the Middle East and North Africa Region to acquire this Certificate. The Center is preparing to apply for the next stage "Recognized for Excellence", so as to align all its procedures and processes with international best practices.

  

• The Center received an international training license from the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), which enabled the Center to be an approved organization to provide training in EFQM self-assessment and to provide "Approved Assessor" and "Approved Mentor" and "How to start the journey to excellence" training courses. The Center also attained the approval of the EFQM to translate the case study into Arabic to be used in training courses.

• The Center signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Public Sector Development, to strengthen the cooperation in the process of developing the public sector.

• In order to strengthen the cooperation with Arab countries, KACE has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Bahrain Center for Excellence in the Kingdom of Bahrain to develop the performance of institutions in the public and private sectors. KACE, has also signed a cooperation agreement with the Dubai School of Government to strengthen the cooperation between the two parties and the implementation of joint capacity building projects.

• “King Abdullah II Award for Excellence in Government Performance and Transparency” -Public Sector
• “King Abdullah II Award for Excellence” -Private Sector
• “King Abdullah II Award for Excellence” - Business Associations Sector -Business Associations Sector

• The Center conducts awareness seminars for organizations participating and willing to participate in the Awards it manages for the public, private and business associations sectors. The seminars aim to introduce these organizations to the awards’ criteria, assessment process, and participation report writing, as well as the Awards’ timeline.
• The Center conducts training courses for organizations participating in the King Abdullah II Awards for Excellence for public, private and business associations sectors with the aim of providing more detailed information about the Award’s criteria, assessment process and method of writing the participation report.
• The Center conducts training courses for nominees to join the Assessors’ Panel for each Award in order to introduce them to the Award’s criteria, assessment process, and method of writing the assessment reports.
• The Center conducts training courses for individuals willing to acquire the "Approved Mentor" certificate that enables them to work with the organizations participating in the King Abdullah II Awards for Excellence. The courses provide the participants with knowledge about mentoring stages, mentor's skills and requirements, mentoring process and tools needed, how to diagnose the organization's current situation through awards criteria, and the assessment mechanizm.
• The Center conducts training courses entitled "How to Translate the Assessment Report into Action Plans" for the participating organizations who are willing to benefit from the assessment report and to translate it into action plans, so as to be reflected on the organization's performance.
• The Center conducts training courses entitled "How to Start the Journey towards Excellence" to provide the organizations who aim at improving their performance with the knowledge needed for self assessment, gap analysis and developing required action plans.

Under the Royal Patronage, the Center celebrates the winning organization of the King Abdullah II Award for Excellence at a special ceremony where the winning organizations receive a trophy of the Award and a Certificate of Appreciation in recognition for their distinguished performance