PRESS RELEASE — The Jordan Civil Society Network for Displacement (JCSND) announced
a pledge under the UN Global Refugee Forum 2023 to leverage the socio-economic
welfare of refugee populations and host communities across the Kingdom.
اضافة اعلان
The Global Refugee Forum is scheduled from 13-15 December 2023 and
is cohosted by Switzerland and the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR).
The Forum takes place every four years and is the world’s largest
international assembly on refugees, designed to support the implementation of
the objectives set out through the UN Global Compact on Refugees framework,
including easing pressures on host countries, enhancing refugee self-reliance,
increasing access to third-country solutions and improving conditions in
countries of origin.
JCSND, comprising 28 members from civil society stakeholders
working under five key development and humanitarian sectors consisting of academia, think tanks, the
private sector, NGOs and associations, and fashion, arts and culture, is committed to enhancing
the resilience and self-reliance of refugees and host communities, including
women, men, girls, boys, and people with disabilities, by providing sustainable
livelihood opportunities, education and learning support services, holistic
protection services, and evidence-based research to advocate for social justice
and responsibility sharing through a collective multi-stakeholder approach.
The JCSND aims at applying the principles of a whole society
approach supporting the government of Jordan’s efforts of hosting refugees
noting that Jordan is the only co-convener country from the MENA region in the
upcoming forum in December, along with Colombia, France, Japan, Niger and
Uganda.
The pledge announcement
coincides with the launching of an advocacy paper authored by the West
Asia-North Africa (WANA) Institute at the Royal Scientific Society as part of
and in collaboration with the JCSND. The paper aims to raise awareness of the importance of shared
responsibility towards enhanced self-reliance and accessibility to the formal labour market in Jordan among governments and
international stakeholders at the Global Refugee Forum.
JCSND’s members across academia, the private sector,
socio-economic development, and culture and arts include the German Jordan
University - Social Work Department, Edu-Syria, Al Yarmouk University, LUMINUS
Technical University College (LTUC), Columbia Global Centers Amman, The Royal
Health Awareness Society, West Asia-North Africa (WANA) Institute, Information
and Research Center – King Hussein Foundation (IRCKHF), National Council For
Family Affairs, Thaka Jordan, Jabal Amman Publishers (JAP), Ernest and Young
(EY), Orange, British Council, Jordan River Foundation, Madrasati, Arab
Renaissance for Democracy and Development, Institute of Family Health-King
Hussein Foundation (IFHKHF), Dar Abu Abdullah (DAA), JOHUD, Save the Children,
Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS), National Centre for Culture
and Arts (NCCA), DARRAT Suheil, Jordan Fashion Week (JFW), and Humanitarian and
development experts.
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