Total funding of JRP 2022 reaches $189m so far — Planning Ministry

AMMAN — Funding for the Jordan Response Plan (JRP) for the Syrian crisis in 2022 has so far amounted to about $189 million, or 8.3 per cent of the plan’s requirements of $2.28 billion, the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation announced on Tuesday. 

The ministry’s data shows that of the secured support, $62.4 million has been allocated to refugee support, $39 million to support host communities, and $1.2 million has been allocated to fund requirements for the COVID-19 response, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. 

Meanwhile, the “Infrastructure and Institutional Capacity Building” component received some $86.3 million.

The value of finance for the requirements of the JRP last year reached some $744.4 million, constituting some 30.6 per cent of the total plan requirements of $2.4 billion, while the deficit for last year's plan reached around $1.687 billion, or 69.4 per cent. 

In March, the ministry said that work was ongoing to update projects of the JRP for the current year, in light of the response of donor countries.

At the time, the ministry said that the plan would continue with the same components of supporting refugees, host communities, building institutional capacity, and the coronavirus response, distributed over seven sectors of education, health, shelter, water and sanitation, economic empowerment, public services and social protection and justice, in addition to a special chapter of supporting the Treasury.