School Students Participate in the 2024 EU Beach Cleanup Campaign in Aqaba

Our focus

Next generation UNDP

Today's development challenges are complex and each context is different. That's why we tailor our work to fit the needs of the countries and communities we serve.

UNDP's Country Programme (2023 - 2027) has been designed to be responsive to Jordan overarching development challenges. Addressing these challenges through three main portfolio:  

  • Prosperous and productive People
  • Green and Safe Future Pathways 
  • Holistic and Transformative Systems and Capacities 

 

Our work

As we implement our new country programme for a new era, see how we've been building on our strengths and presence on the ground in close to 170 countries and territories during more than five decades of action.

 

Prosperous and productive People

UNDP endeavor to enhance people’s resilience by nurturing skills development, employability, productivity and livelihoods towards an inclusive, gender-equal, resilient, safe and productive society. UNDP will formulate development policies and the future of work pathways that shape people’s capacities and leverage opportunities to realize their full potential in an equitable and resilient economy in service sectors, including tourism and information and communication technology, fostered on SDG-aligned opportunities, and in line with the national employment programmes.

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Green and Safe Future Pathways

UNDP will build and advance infrastructures and systems resilient to climate change and disaster risks for effective prevention, mitigation, and response to crisis, conflict, natural disasters and climate change impacts while protecting natural ecosystems and mainstreaming green recovery.

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Holistic and Transformative Systems and Capacities

UNDP will support policy advocacy for participatory, consultative and developmentally- geared modernization reform process, facilitate pro-poor legislation, and enhance voice, agency and awareness of complaints, referral and feedback mechanisms. UNDP will continue to emphasize women’s participation in decision-making positions, address systematic gender inequalities, and strengthen the active participation of youth in political life.

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Community Security & Social Cohesion

The work of this Pillar is focused on fostering trust between citizens and state institutions, in complementarity with other UN agencies working in the same area. UNDP supports partners in defining and scaling up strategic policy on social cohesion, including opportunities for enhanced access to justice and frameworks for legal aid and community policing. The Pillar also supports building capacities of NGOs on preventing violent extremism.

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Gender equality and women’s empowerment

Through UNDP Signature Solution 6 on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, UNDP Jordan delivers impactful solutions by targeting the challenges facing women and girls through inclusive stakeholder engagement, building evidence-based assessments, and ensuring gender inclusive programme and policy design.

UNDP Jordan’s goal is to strengthen gender equality and women’s empowerment through an impactful mainstreaming approach to achieve inclusive participation and social cohesion, resilient communities, livelihoods and environment, and enabling an institutional framework for the realization of the SDGs.

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