UNDP signs grant deals with 34 community organisations

AMMAN — UNDP said on Wednesday it has signed grant agreements with 34 community based organisations (CBOs) in Irbid, Mafraq and Zarqa. In a statement, the agency said the grants, totalling $1.3 million, come under the scope of its “social cohesion and stability programme” backed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and the Japanese and Kuwaiti governments.

Also on Wednesday, UNDP said it held the “first national meeting of entrepreneurs for the emergency employment project (3X6)-Jordan”. The meeting aimed to increase networking among 3X6 entrepreneurs in Mafraq.

The project improved the income of the beneficiaries’ families by about 54 per cent, with 1,350 young people participating in the first phase of the emergency employment project.

Some 441 young men and women were also supported to establish their small businesses to become entrepreneurs in Mafraq, UNDP said in a second statement. Japanese Ambassador Shuichi Sakurai attended the meeting.