AMMAN
— The
World Bank has finally confirmed that the "Jordan Support for
Employment and Private Sector Skills" project has made reasonably
satisfactory progress in achieving its development objectives, as well as in
implementation, considering environmental and social aspects (ISR).
اضافة اعلان
Implemented
by the Ministry of Labor, the program aims to boost private sector employment
rates
post-COVID-19, particularly focusing on youth and women. It seeks to
stimulate private sector employment, support wages, and provide social security
contributions and transportation allowances for workers in companies
participating in the
National Employment Plan. Targeting unemployed individuals
aged 18 to 40, the program's financing volume stood at $23.2 million as of
December 31, constituting 21 percent of the total project funding of $112
million, Al-Ghad reported.
Comprising
two components, the program supports the National Employment Program, including
on-the-job and classroom training and project monitoring and evaluation.
Key
results include 2,477 Jordanian companies applying to the National Employment
Plan, with 1,704 approvals and 1,330 companies signing grant and partnership
agreements with the Ministry of Labor. Additionally, 28,834 job opportunities
were provided to 79,461 registered job seekers on the
national employment platform (Sijil), with benefits disbursed through Social Security. The project
created approximately 558 job opportunities in the past two months, with an
8,000 increase in job seekers on the platform, 7.3 percent of whom were female.
Moreover, about 13,000 workers from companies partnering with the Ministry of
Labor received training.
On
December 19, the World Bank extended the project's closing date to June 30 of
the following year to allow the Jordanian government to discuss its full
restructuring and extension until the end of 2025. This move was prompted by
the government's response to the ongoing unemployment challenge, with plans to
make the national employment policy an umbrella for all employment initiatives
in Jordan. The government allocated 80 million dinars for this policy in the
2023-2025 budget, with 30 million in 2023, 30 million in 2024, and 20 million
in 2025.
Jordan's
unemployment rate decreased to 22.3 percent in the third quarter of 2023, down
0.8 percent from the third quarter of 2022, when it was 23.1 percent.
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