AMMAN — Funding for
Jordan’s Response Plan for the Syria Crisis last year amounted to $667.4 million, out of $2.43 billion,
according to Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Nasser
Shraideh.
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Shraideh told Al-Mamlaka TV on Tuesday that the
amounts of aid contracted to Jordan last year were allocated to projects for
host communities worth $149.8 million, and for the refugee support sector,
which includes direct aid, food aid, medical aid, shelter, and others worth
$517.6 million.
He said available funding for the plan for last year
was 27.4 percent, while the deficit was 72.6 percent; a deficit of $1.764 billion.
Jordan has hosted more than 1.3 million Syrians
since the beginning of the crisis in 2011, including 672,952 registered
refugees with the
UNHCR as of
December 31, out of more than five million Syrian refugees in Jordan and
neighboring countries.
The minister, in
a previous statement, urged the international community to carry out its
responsibilities towards the countries hosting
Syrian refugees, specifically
Jordan, considering the remarkable decrease in the volume of support provided
to the Jordanian Response Plan to the Syrian crisis from donors during the past
two years.
In 2020, the amount of
funding for Jordan’s response plan reached $1.11 billion, out of $ 2.24 billion
budgeted, with a funding rate of 49.4 percent, and a deficit of about $1.137
billion.
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