Only 26% of 2020 Jordan Response Plan financed — Planning Ministry

AMMAN — Funding for the Jordan Response Plan (JRP), the national response to the Syrian refugee crisis, stood at $597 million in the first eight months of 2020, leaving a massive deficit of $1.652 billion, according to the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation.

The ministry’s figures show that only 25 per cent or $597 million of the plan’s 2020 funding needs, $2.249 billion, has been secured since the beginning of the current year, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

Of the amount secured, $124 million went to supporting refugees, $122 million for host communities and $350 million was channelled to support the Treasury while no funding was made available to institutional capacity-building projects, the data reveal.

The figures show that the US was the top donor of this year’s plan at $367.7 million followed by Germany with a grant estimated at $67.5 million.

The government approved the Jordan Response Plan to the Syrian crisis for the years 2020-2022, with a total funding of about $6.6 billion.