AMMAN — The World Food Program's
(WFP) projects in Jordan for 2023, including providing food assistance to some
465,000 refugees, will cost around $230 million.
اضافة اعلان
The WFP's country strategic plan for Jordan
for 2020–2022 required total funding of $767 million, of which $705 million
have been received. The total funding requirements for the current year have
reached $261 million.
For the six months from December 2022 to
May 2023, $40.8 million is required to meet the food needs of 465,000 refugees
in Jordan and provide school lunches for around 450,000 schoolchildren, the
program said in a statement.
Vital cash transfers
A monthly report reviewed by Al-Mamlaka TV
showed that the WFP provided food assistance to around 460,000 vulnerable
refugees residing in camps and host communities during November via cash-based
transfers.
As a result of an improvement in financing,
the program was able to restore the full transfer value for beneficiaries in
local communities (about 353,000 individuals) to August levels after
temporarily reducing the transfer value by almost a third since September. From
December onwards, refugees will receive the full value of their assistance
funding, with the most-vulnerable refugees receiving $32 and vulnerable
refugees receiving $21.
Meanwhile, the WFP has been gradually
shifting to mobile financial services to enhance financial inclusion — some
26,000 Syrian refugees received assistance through this mechanism in November.
For the six months from December 2022 to May 2023, $40.8 million is required to meet the food needs of 465,000 refugees in Jordan and provide school lunches for around 450,000 schoolchildren.
WFP's school meal project also continued in
November, distributing biscuits to about 410,000 students in camps and host
communities and healthy meals to 85,000 students in local communities.
The majority of refugees who receive WFP
food assistance come from Syria, 96 percent, and a minority from Iraq also receive
assistance, 3 percent. The remaining beneficiaries, 1 percent, are from Yemen,
Sudan, Somalia, and other countries.
The strain on scarce resources
In Jordan, which has a population of 10.9
million and hosts the second highest share of refugees per capita in the world,
with some 750,000 registered refugees, 6 percent of residents receive some form
of assistance from the WFP.
According to the program's country report,
Jordan suffers from a food shortage in tandem with dwindling energy and water
resources and limited agricultural land. This is credited to the fact that
Jordan bears the social, economic, and environmental responsibility of hosting
674,000 Syrian refugees and 84,000 refugees of other nationalities registered
with UNHCR as of the end of November.
A food security index conducted by the WFP
in the second quarter of this year showed that 58 percent of refugees in local
communities suffer from food insecurity, and the remainder are exposed to food
insecurity, meaning that the food assistance provided by the program is vital.
Families headed by women, small families,
and families with individuals with special needs especially suffer from food
security issues.
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