QUDORAT views financial assistance to CBOs as "investments" that expand opportunities and leverage additional investment and learning. Building on the experience and skills gained through QUDORAT capacity building component, the Investment Grants Program will be launched. 40+ investment awards will be made on a competitive basis to those CBOs with concrete income-generating project proposals demonstrating strong organizational capacity, contributions, community participation, and prospects for sustainability. Special attention will be given to the development of this competitive and transparent process from the program's outset.  CBOs will be required to leverage local contributions of at least 30% (including in-kind, cash, labor and expertise) and to ensure high potential for buy-in and ownership from the triangular linkages of local government (municipalities), CBOs, and the private sector creating new models for investment and economic development 
  
It is anticipated that the prospects for winning a CBO Investment Grant will be a strong motivator for Jordanian CBOs to participate in QUDORAT capacity-building programming. While the investment awards are important to the overall success of the program and economic development in Jordan, QUDORAT has been carefully designed to enable CBO self sufficiency, instill business practices, create market dynamics based on local resources, SMEs, industry and markets to revitalize the local economy and ultimately result in public-private linkages and CBO sector enhancement. By this, strong components in outreach, training/certification, and mentoring have been developed. To insure CBOs understanding of the role of IGPs in social as well as economic development, all IGP proposals will include a section on the relation of the IGP to the CBO's social services and programs.   The outcome of this program will be 40+ CBO-run IGPs. Effective and tested business management and marketing approaches are key to the sustainability of income generating projects. Special attention will be devoted by senior QUDORAT program staff to the design of ownership models that effectively balance the often competing interests of sustainable business development with widespread community benefit. Lessons learned and CBO performance results will be disseminated through CBO web site, workshops, conferences, cross-visits organized by the QUDORAT team.
 
The importance of CBO understanding of local markets and value chains will be emphasized throughout the program in order to maximize the profitability and effectiveness of the IGPs and their communities. Partnerships and linkages developed under the first pillar of the project will be integral for the continued assessment and monitoring of market niches, the development and design of CBO IGPs and their ultimate implementation and marketing value chain practices will be incorporated into the IGP development, management and implementation. It will be an organizing principle for many of the networking activities to promote CBO IGPs and encourage long term investment planning about business goals rather than simply implementation steps in the development of the IGPs. Priority in IGP project selection will be given to CBOs that are working within the same value chains to create sound linkages and potentials for collaboration. Through CBOs value chain networking collaboration on IGP development as well as engagement in joint marketing, procurement of raw materials, cooperative and jointly use of equipment will result in CBO IGP cost reduction and revenue increase..