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Ammon News - Only $744 million of Jordan’s $2.432 billion response plan to the Syrian crisis (Jordan Response Plan "JRP") was made available by the international in 2021, according to Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation's figures.

With only 30.6 per cent of the plan’s total amount financed, the deficit now stands at $1.687 billion, or 69.4 per cent of the total needed, a breakdown of last year’s figures reveals.

The amount secured was used to support refugees ($538 million out of $617 million needed), host communities ($136 million out of $192 million needed), and infrastructure and institutional capacity-building ($55 million out of $412 million needed). While a new item, response to the Covid-19 pandemic, received a meager $14 million out of $261 million envisaged in the plan.

The "state's treasury support" item received zero financing in 2021 while the target was $948 million, according to the data.

The sub-areas of spending of the total amount collected were as follows: healthcare ($126 million), economic empowerment ($260 million), education ($47 million), social protection and justice ($272 million, public services ($13 million), shelter ($13 million), and sanitation services ($13 million).

The Federal Republic of Germany was the largest financier of the plan with $179 million, followed by the United States ($173 million), multilateral funds ($71 million), and EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis "Madad" ($50 million).

In 2020, the plan's financing amounted to about $11.11 billion, out of $2.24 billion, with a financing rate of 49.4 percent.