AMMAN — Only $744 million of Jordan’s
$2.432 billion Response Plan to the Syrian Crisis (JRP) was made available by
the international donors in 2021, according to Ministry of Planning and
International Cooperation’s figures.
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The Federal Republic of Germany was the largest
financier of the plan, with $179 million, followed by the US ($173 million),
multilateral funds ($71 million), and EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the
Syrian Crisis “Madad” ($50 million).
Kuwait ranked sixth globally and first in the Arab
world on the list of donors to the response plan, with about $32.7 million,
followed by the UK with $32.5 million, Luxembourg with $30.5
million, and Canada with $23 million.
With only 30.6 percent of the plan’s total amount
financed, the deficit now stands at $1.687 billion, or 69.4 percent of the
total needed, a breakdown of last year’s figures reveals.
The amount secured was used to support refugees
($538 million out of $617 million needed), host communities ($136 million out
of $192 million needed), and infrastructure and institutional capacity-building
($55 million out of $412 million needed). While a new item, response to the
COVID-19 pandemic, received a meager $14 million out of $261 million envisaged
in the plan.
The “state’s treasury support” item received zero
financing in 2021 while the target was $948 million, according to the data.
The sub-areas of spending of the total amount
collected were as follows: healthcare ($126 million), economic empowerment
($260 million), education ($47 million), social protection and justice ($272
million, public services ($13 million), shelter ($13 million), and sanitation
services ($13 million).
The volume of funding for Jordan’s Response Plan for
the Syrian Crisis in 2021 amounted to $744.4 million, 3.6 percent short of the
$2.43 billion Jordan said it needed, according to the Ministry of Planning and
International Cooperation, which said that funding is $1.687 billion short.
Jordan has hosted more than 1.3 million Syrians
since the beginning of the crisis in 2011, including 672,952 refugees
registered with the UNHCR until December 31, out of more than 5 million Syrian
refugees in Jordan and neighboring countries.
Minister of Planning and International Cooperation
Nasser Shraideh urged the international community to assume its
responsibilities towards the countries hosting Syrian refugees, specifically
Jordan, in light of the noticeable decline in the volume of support provided to
the Jordan Response Plan for the Syrian Crisis by donors during 2020–2021
Shraideh had asked for sufficient funding to support
the plan for the year 2021, which was prepared and updated through the
collaborative effort of all relevant ministries and institutions, United
Nations organizations, donor countries, and non-governmental organizations, and
included new changes to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, the volume of funding for the plan amounted to
about $1.11 billion, out of the requested $2.24 billion, with a financing rate
of 49.4 percent, and a deficit of about $1.137 billion out of the annual budget
allocated to support Syrian refugees in Jordan.
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