AMMAN — The Regional, Refugee and Resilience Plan in response to the
Syrian Crisis
for 2022 estimated Jordan's funding requirements at nearly $1.3 billion,
according to Al-Ghad News.
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The
Jordanian government had estimated its need at $2.094 billion for the year
2022, a $700 million gap between the UN estimate and the Jordanian government's
estimates.
The
Jordanian government’s estimate, in Jordan’s response plan to the Syrian crisis,
for the years 2020-2022, stood at about $6.6 billion, including $2.249 billion
for 2020, $2.262 billion for 2021, and $2.094 billion for 2022.
Jordan
hosts 759,300 refugees registered with the
UNHCR, of whom about 672,800 are
Syrians; 82.8 percent of these live in host communities.
Jordan is
the second-largest refugee-hosting country in the world; it guarantees a
protected environment for refugees and the protection of their basic human
rights through national frameworks.
The plan
pointed out that Jordan faces many economic challenges, some of which result
from the impact of hosting this large number of refugees, and some caused by
global economic factors, such as the impact of the corona pandemic.
The slowdown
in GDP growth, caused by the Syrian conflict, led to a 4.0 percentage point
increase in poverty rates among Jordanians, which stood at 16 percent among
Jordanians and 40 percent among non-Jordanians.
In terms of
working to address social and economic challenges, the response program will
seek to expand access to transportation and infrastructure to enable vulnerable
Jordanians and
Syrian refugees both in camps and urban areas to access
commercial centers and industrial areas.
Until
November 3, 2021, the volume of funding for the plan was $555 million out of
$2.4 billion.
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