Contribution to the UNHCR's activities in Jordan 2021 (2)



Contract partner: UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Jordanien Funding amount: € 1.000.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2021 End: 31.12.2021

Short Description:

Overall goal


In line with the 2021 Jordan Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), UNHCR’s strategic and operational priorities for 2021 are:

• Attaining Favorable Protection Environments;

• Realizing Basic Rights in Safe Environments;

• Empowering Communities and Achieving Gender Equality; and

• Securing Solutions.


Expected results


Under its 2021 response plan, UNHCR aims to achieve the following key results:

1. 33,000 vulnerable refugees’ families receive monthly cash assistance;

2. 100,000 persons of concern (POCs), are assisted with primary health care services;

3. 6,000 Best interests assessments conducted (child protection);

4. 1,500 awareness raising campaigns on gender-based violence (GBV) prevention conducted;

5. 50,000 of PoCs receiving legal assistance.


Target group / Beneficiaries


Target group of the entire programme: UNHCR provides 33,000 families with monthly cash assistance amounting to roughly USD 180 per family per month.


Austria's contribution of EUR 1,000,000 will allow UNHCR to provide support to over 6,130 vulnerable refugee families through the provision of monthly cash assistance.


Beneficiaries are located throughout Jordan and are based in urban settings as opposed to camps.


Activities


Activities include: Making sure that the most vulnerable refugees do not resort to harmful coping mechanisms and respond to their essential needs through the provision of monthly cash assistance.


Context


Over the last years, 668,332 Syrians have found refuge in Jordan – 49.3% children, 4.1% older refugees, and 46.6% are of working age. Jordan hosts the second highest number of refugees in the world as a proportion of its population, and is the seventh

1 A complete list of all SDG targets can be found here: sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/sustainabledevelopmentgoals

2 Exchange rate will be the official UN exchange rate on the date of the agreement.

Humanitarian Aid Measures / Template highest refugee-hosting country in the world.

The situation for Syrians within the country remains difficult. The majority of families live outside of camps, and over 80% are below the national poverty line. With the COVID-19 pandemic, refugees have been adversely affected with many losing stable sources of income. The 128,862 refugees registered in camps in Jordan (majority are women and children) also face difficult living conditions. Livelihood opportunities in the camps are very limited and have become even more scarce during COVID-19.

The host community has struggled too. The global economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have had a detrimental effect on Jordan’s economy. In 2020, the unemployment rate in Jordan hit 24.7% with a staggering 50% unemployment rate among the youth. In the last quarter of 2020, the economy contracted by 1.6%. This complex situation, however, now provides the opportunity to ‘build back better’ and to transform the refugee response into a more sustainable endeavour, in line with the JRP, the Global Compact on Refugees (CGR) and the SDGs.

project number 2694-11/2021
source of funding AKF
sector Humanitäre Hilfe: Sofortmaßnahmen
tied
modality
marker Poverty: 1
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
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    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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