AMMAN —
The
Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation said that by the end of
the third quarter of this year, funding for Jordan’s response plan to the
Syrian crisis had amounted to $316.5 million, out of the requested $2.28
billion, Khaberni said.
اضافة اعلان
According to the
ministry, of the funding, $145.4 million went to support refugees and $67.8
million to hosting communities, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
The plan also
funded $4.7 million to support projects in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
that are part of the
Syrian Crisis Response Plan, and $98.5 million toward a
projects that supports infrastructure and institutional capacity development.
According to the
Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation data, “no funding has been
provided in the plan to support the budget item until now.” The ministry also
said that only 13.8 percent of the plan was funded, while the deficit amounted
to $1.963 billion, or 86.2 percent of the total plan size.
Minister of
Planning and International Cooperation Nasser Al-Shraideh had urged the
international community to shoulder its responsibility toward the countries
hosting Syrian refugees, specifically Jordan, in light of the noticeable
decline in the volume of support provided by donors to Jordan’s response plan
to the Syrian crisis over the past two years.
At the end of the
annual Jordanian-German governmental negotiations for development cooperation,
which were held in Amman, Shraideh announced that Germany had allocated 95.5
million euros in humanitarian aid for the current year to help Jordan bear the
repercussions of hosting Syrian refugees.
Jordan has hosted more
than 1.3 million Syrians since the beginning of the crisis in 2011, including
676,684 registered with the UNHCR.
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