Monday, February 24, 2020
BLOG: The short answer is: women. They are increasingly employed in jobs that are difficult to replace with new technologies, according to our new report on the Jordanian labor market.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
BLOG: 'People are hesitant to go out now,' the director of a Jordanian community center in Karak said. Karak castle was the site of an attack by gunmen in late 2016 that left 19 people dead. But the fear she described was not that of being caught up...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
The European Union adopted a new €297 million assistance package to support refugees and host communities in Jordan and Lebanon via the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis. The EU has also decided to extend the mandate of the Trust...
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Asia, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Europe
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Thursday, August 1, 2019
For almost half a year, the Women and Girls Safe Space Centre (WGSS) has been operational in Azraq refugee camp. It was opened in March by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) and The Jordan Times was recently able to talk to the centre’s manager, Reem...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
The World Bank has more than doubled its commitments to Jordan with a $1.45bn financing package to stimulate inclusive growth and employment. Jordan’s economic growth and reform plan, formed in response to external shocks such as the Syrian...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Tens of thousands of Jordanian families will receive financial aid and full health insurance under a new wide-ranging social safety net launched by the Jordanian government on Wednesday. The government unveiled the National Strategy for Social Protection...
Saturday, April 27, 2019
The Cash-for-Work (CfW) programme has no strong impact on local economic development in Jordan, the Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS) at the University of Jordan and the German Development Institute (DIE) said in a joint statement on Saturday. ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is expanding its blockchain testing from refugee aid in the Middle East to supply chain management in Africa. Following the agency's well-publicized pilot of an ethereum-based system for cash transfers in...
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Africa, Asia, Jordan, Syria
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Friday, August 10, 2018
1.3 million refugees are currently hosted by Jordan, a country that continues to demonstrate humanitarian leadership in the Syrian refugee crisis. In 2012, UN Women opened its first Oasis— a centre for refugee women and girls to access emergency aid and...