On 7/1/2010 Lana Adnoni gave Amman Institute staff a presentation entitled “Assessing The Development Difference Between West And East Amman“

1. Assessing the Development
Difference Between West
and East Amman
Lana Andoni

2. Why I chose this topic
To determine whether the perceived development
difference between West and East Amman actually exists
For years, people have perceived Amman as being divided
into two parts; the West, the more prosperous part
where upper – middle neighborhoods, high rise office
buildings, hotels, businesses and banks locate, and the
East, the older part of Amman, where lower income
neighborhoods, refugee camps, and small informal
markets locate.
I wanted to see whether this difference exists, and to what
extent…

3. Method
• Determine the indicators to be tested -
i.e. education, healthcare, employment, income
• Creating an English and Arabic form of the
Questionnaire

4. Method

5. Method
• Systematic sampling

6. Results - Education
Education Attainment in West and East Amman for
Females and Males
East Amman
Females
Males
West Amman
Females
Primary
Secondary
Males
College
University
100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0

7. Results - Income
Income in West and East Amman for Females and
Males
60
50
West
Males 40
Females
East 30
Males
Females
20
10
0
<
< 120 120 120-200
120-200 201-500
201-500 501-1000
501-1000 > 1000
>1000

8. Results – Density
Density - Area per person in house
35
30
25
20
West
East 15
10
5
0
<10
< 10 b/ 10 - 19
10-19 20-29
20-29 30-39
30-39 40-49
40-49 50-59
50-59 60-69
60-69 70-150
70-150 150-250
150-250

9. Results – no. of Children
Number of Children in each Household of West and East Amman
West Amman East Amman

10. Results - Technology
Presence of a computer in the East and West household
West Amman East Amman

11. Suggested Development projects
SOME of the suggestions included –
• Projects which provide job opportunities for the youth with reasonable income
• Improve and provide transportation in the district
• Parks for children
• Libraries for children
• Improve health care & renew facilities
• Means for recreation such as parks, playgrounds, pools for children
• Better garbage collection process
• Open vocational schools
• Mall
• Parking lots
• Maintain the cleanness of the neighborhood
• ‘Change the people’
• Sports clubs
• Underground train
• Better Car parks – ensure every business which opens has its own parking space
• Open offices to transmit information and complaints between population and authorities
• Make roads and pavements more handicapped friendly

12. Conclusion
• After obtaining the results and analyzing the
data, I found that discrepancy between the two
regions is inevitably there.
• This difference in development is witnessed – to
different extents - in all of the assessed aspects,
whether in female empowerment, education
levels, income, employment rates, technology
availability and health care.
• We need to try to bridge the gap between these
two areas