AMMAN —
The
UN World Food Program (WFP) needs $73 million until the end of the year to
maintain the current level of assistance and avoid reducing the number of
beneficiaries or the quantity of food aid given to eligible refugees, seeing
that it suffers from a “significant funding gap”, Al-Mamlaka TV reported.
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According to a
WFP report, “the funding gap for the WFP remains large until the end of this
year”, and thus the program “as of September 2022, will have to reduce the
level of assistance it provides for all refugees living in communities by
nearly a third, to ensure the continuity of aid to the neediest families and to
avoid cutting off assistance to some”.
The WFP report
said if it were to increase the value of food assistance “to bring it up to the
2018 level, when the current value was determined, the program would need $97.6
million to cover the needs of 465,000 beneficiaries until the end of the year”.
Between this
August and coming January, WFP needs $114.7 million to fund all its Jordan
operations, which include providing food assistance to targeted refugees, and
continuing the school feeding project, the report said.
In addition, WFP
requires $3.2 million to provide daily school meals to 433,000 vulnerable
students in Jordan in the same period.
“With such significant
funding constraints, WFP in Jordan cannot maintain the same level of food aid
for all refugees in host communities,” the report stated, adding that refugee
families classified as “most in need of food assistance” outside the camps,
that usually receive food assistance at a value of JD23 per person/month, will
receive JD15 per person/month, refugee families outside the camps classified as
“in need of medium food assistance” who usually receive food assistance at a
value of JD15 per person/month will receive JD10 per person/month, and all
refugee families registered inside the camps continue to receive food assistance
as it is, at a value of JD23 dinars per person/month if funding continues to be
made available to the program, it said.
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