Ostathi — Digital Marketplace for Skills, Income, and Economic Participation
From outreach to income. Ostathi connects trained and certified professionals to clients locally, regionally, and globally — enabling verified income generation in the digital economy.
Ostathi is UniHouse's proprietary digital marketplace — the platform infrastructure through which structured digital workforce development pathways become real economic outcomes. Developed by UniHouse and supported by Microsoft, Ostathi connects trained professionals with clients across Jordan, the MENA region, and globally — enabling them to publish services, build verified professional identities, receive orders, and get paid from anywhere in the world.
Ostathi is the delivery engine of the UniHouse Workforce and Entrepreneurship Engine (WEE™) — an eight-stage framework that takes beneficiaries from initial outreach through skills development, professional credentialing, and marketplace activation to verified income generation. Every transaction on Ostathi is recorded and auditable — eliminating self-reporting and providing the verified outcome data required by international development funders.
Ostathi is currently deployed as a national initiative in Jordan under the World Bank-funded Youth, Technology and Jobs (YTJ) Project in partnership with Jordan's Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE).
Download the full UniHouse
Workforce & Entrepreneurship Engine framework documents — the methodology powering Ostathi.
Core Features of Ostathi
For professionals and beneficiaries — a structured route from training to income. Build a verified profile, publish services, receive orders, and earn from clients globally.
For implementing partners and governments — a platform that generates auditable income and activity data at the individual beneficiary level, meeting the evidentiary standards of World Bank and IFC programmes.
For funders and donors — verified outcome measurement through transaction records rather than self-reported data, with Competency Development Evaluation Framework (CDEF) governed M&E integrated from programme inception to handover.
Key Features
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Verified professional profiles
Each graduate receives a dedicated Ostathi profile URL consolidating their credentials, certifications, portfolio, and service offerings into a single, professionally presented digital identity verifiable by clients globally.
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Digital verifiable certification Certificates issued upon successful CDEF completion are permanently linked to each beneficiary's Ostathi profile — tamper-proof, shareable, and recognised by employers and clients.
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Service publishing and client matching Beneficiaries publish their defined services, set pricing, and are discoverable by clients across Jordan, the MENA region, and globally.
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Personal promotion campaigns
Targeted paid digital campaigns drive client traffic directly to individual profiles — accelerating time-to-first-client and reducing the cold-start problem.
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Digital payment gateway
Ostathi's integrated payment infrastructure enables beneficiaries to receive income from clients anywhere in the world — securely, compliantly, and with full transaction records.
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CDEF-governed outcome data
Every interaction from profile activation to income receipt is tracked and reportable — providing verified, disaggregated outcome data that meets donor and sponsored standards.
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Multilingual delivery
Arabic and English interface with real-time support, ensuring accessibility across the MENA region and beyond.
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Microsoft Azure infrastructure
Scalable, secure cloud infrastructure under the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub programme — enabling national-scale deployment with full data security and uptime reliability.
Powered by Microsoft for Startups
Ostathi operates on Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure under the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub programme — providing the scalability, security, and AI capability required for national-scale digital workforce development.
This partnership enables scalable platform infrastructure that accommodates growing national programme demand without compromising performance or data integrity. It enables AI-powered tools integration across training delivery, profile optimisation, and client matching — equipping beneficiaries with the AI literacy required to compete in the modern digital economy. It enables cross-border payment and service delivery, connecting Jordanian and regional professionals to clients globally with full regulatory compliance. And it enables the data security and audit trail required by international development funders for verified outcome reporting.
Ostathi in Jordan — A National Initiative
Ostathi Jordan is currently deployed as a national digital skills and income generation initiative under the World Bank-funded Youth, Technology and Jobs (YTJ) Project — in partnership with Jordan's Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE). UniHouse serves as strategic advisor and implementation partner.
The initiative equips Jordanian youth, women, and Syrian refugees with market-aligned digital skills, verifiable credentials, and marketplace access — enabling verified income generation locally, regionally, and globally. Aligned with SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities), the Ostathi Jordan deployment demonstrates that structured, platform-based workforce development can achieve national scale with rigorous outcome measurement and genuine inclusion.
Ostathi Jordan:
jo.ostathi.com