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Ammon News - Ministers of Agriculture, Khaled Hneifat, Water and Irrigation, Mohammad Najjar, and Environment, Muawieh Radaideh, were briefed on Sunday, on the mechanisms and plans for implementing Green Climate Fund (GCF) $33 million project to build climate resilience in Jordan.

Funded in partnership with FAO and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the project seeks to improve water use efficiency in agriculture in the Kingdom's southern governorates.

Hneifat said his ministry, as part of its efforts to adapt to climate changes and achieve food security, worked to establish about 2,000 rainwater harvesting wells in a number of Jordanian governorates.

This effort comes within the ministry's plan to establish 6,000 wells and a number of dams countrywide, in cooperation with the Jordan Armed Forces (JAF), leading to a water harvest for household uses and farming, Hneifat added.

During a ministry meeting, he said this project is in line with the government's plans to take advantage of rainwater to the "utomost" extent possible, and involve families in the countryside, as part of measures to build wells to achieve income.

Hneifat also stressed the importance of cooperation within the the project on expanding Jordan's green area, investing in field schools, and steering agricultural plans to expand cultivation of water-saving crops that benefit from modern technology.

Radaideh said Ministry of Environment seeks to work under the project's action plan to coordinate requirements aimed to mitigate climate change effects and follow up on agricultural inputs, in line with environmental conditions.

For his part, Najjar said the Ministry of Water’s openness, as part of its water harvesting plans, has launched frameworks for contacting and following up on to achieve the "greatest" achievement, which is reflected in the "optimal" rain water harvesting.

This effort would supply drinking water quantities from this project with "positive" participation with all partner institutions in integrating water-saving and harvesting technology, Najjar added.

Meanwhile, FAO representative in Jordan, Nabil Assaf, reviewed the most important mechanisms of the project's executive action plan, 7-year implementation and cooperation with official institutions.

Assaf also lauded the government's "remarkable" cooperation to implement the project within a "clear" path that serves the environmental, water and agricultural reality in Jordan.