AMMAN — The
Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation said Wednesday the Jordan
Response Plan (JRP) to the Syrian crisis for the year 2021 has only received
9.1 percent of the necessary funding for the current year.
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As of August 15, the
JRP has received $220.7 million out of the required $2.43 billion, Al-Ghad
daily reported.
The JRP 2021 budget is
distributed between a number of different categories of the plan, according to
the ministry.
Two of these categories
include supporting host communities, which has been received $92 million of the
budgeted $192 million and supporting refugees, which has received $117.3
million out of the required $617 million.
“The coronavirus
response plans ... include interventions to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on
Syrian refugees and host communities affected by the refugee crisis,” the
ministry said, adding that the projects included in the JRP were budgeted to
received $260 million but have only received $9.7 million.
Furthermore, the
ministry indicated that of the allocated $411 million to fund infrastructure
and capacity-development projects, only $1.6 million had been received.
“To date there has been
no funding provided to the response plan to support the Treasury,” the ministry
added, out of the required $948 million.
Since
the beginning of the crisis in 2011, Jordan has hosted more than 1.3 million
Syrians, including 669,922 refugees registered with UNHCR, out of more than 5
million Syrian refugees in Jordan and neighboring states.
“It
is too early to judge the contribution of (top JRP donor nations),” the
ministry said, noting that “The US was at the forefront of funding the JRP 2020
with a donation of $521 million, followed by the Federal Republic of Germany
with $204 million, and the EU with $124 million, including through the EU
Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis with about 53 million
dollars.”
In
2020, the JRP received $1.1 billion out of a required $2.24, representing a
financing rate of 49.4 percent to support Syrian refugees in Jordan.
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