Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Prime Minister, Omar Razzaz, on Thursday launched a EU-funded project aimed to promote social protection and integration, worth 23 million-euro.

The launch ceremony was attended by Prince Marad bin Raad, Chairman of the Supreme Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Minister of Social Development Basma Ishaqat, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Mary Kawar, EU Ambassador to Jordan Andre Fontana and a number of officials and officials.

The project aims to improve the performance of Jordan's social protection system by developing the infrastructure of the centers and administrative units of the Ministry of Social Development and boosting the monitoring and evaluation network to ensure the best social services for the poor and vulnerable groups of youth, women and persons with disabilities.

During the ceremony, Razzaz thanked the European Union (EU) for supporting this important project along with several ventures and programs on social protection and integration, pointing to the importance of cooperation with the EU to support social workers and their rehabilitation to learn about the reality of targeted families to get a holistic assessment to ensure providing services for each family individually and through an integrative role between the government, private sector institutions and civil society in light of the government's inability to provide all services to all families and individuals.

The Prime Minister said this meeting reflects the determination of all partners not to accept the current status quo, which considers poverty as a "fragmentary state" and treats disabled people as exceptional cases that must be separated from society and its institutions.

"We are in the process of an integrated project that redefines poverty and the poor, defines social protection, and the role of government and civil society institutions," he said, pointing out this requires the engagement of several ministries in this process, which the Ministry of Social Development is now the key player in this regard.

Citing the ministries of planning, health, transport, energy, education, as other key stakeholders, he said such a move aims to shift from a narrow definition of poverty to the recognition that poverty requires many different and complementary interventions.

"Through these projects, we are establishing a multi-faceted society," Razzaz said, pointing to the negative impact of the separation of people with special needs and disabilities from the integration schools.