Jordan Response Plan funding stands at $52.1m — Planning Ministry

AMMAN — The Jordan Response Plan (JRP), the national response to the Syrian refugee crisis, received a total funding of around $52.1 million as of Thursday, constituting 2.1 per cent of the funding required, according to Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation’s data.

The required funding stands at $2.432 billion while the deficit, since the beginning of this year, stands at around $2.379 billion, according to the funding status report of the JRP, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

Of the amount secured, $34.2 million went to support refugees, $14 million for host communities and $1.4 million to develop infrastructure and institutional capabilities and $2.4 million to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, while the Treasury received no support.

The data showed that the plan provided the health sector with $9.9 million, economic empowerment with $5.7 million, education sector with $11 million, social protection and justice with $21 million, public services with $3.2 million, shelter with $364,000 and sewage services with $666,000. 

The United States is the top donor to the JRP 2021, according to the figures, with donations amounting to around $12.5 million, followed by Germany with a grant of around $11.5 million, and $8.8 million from several finance funds.

The government had set its needs to cover the requirements of the JRP during 2021 with $948 million to support the General Budget, $617 million to support refugees, $192 million to support host communities, $261 million to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and $412 million to develop infrastructure and institutional capabilities. 

The funding secured for the JRP in 2020 amounted to $1.111 billion out of a total of $2.24 billion with a funding percentage of 49.4 per cent and a deficit of $1.137 billion.