Partners - Jordan-en
Partners
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
As part of PROSPECTS, the International Finance Corporation aims to help de-risk and increase the financial viability of high impact projects benefitting refugees, forcibly displaced persons and their host communities. The International Finance Corporation’s 3.0 Strategy aims to stimulate private sector interventions in challenging geographies and to underserved target groups. IFC brings its experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where needed to support refugees and host communities.
International Labour Organization (ILO)
The ILO brings significant expertise and experience in supporting enabling environments to underpin inclusive socio-economic growth and decent work, strengthen labour markets and promote access to improved working conditions and fundamental rights at work, including through the involvement of its tripartite national constituents. The ILO stimulates labour market demand and immediate job creation through employment-intensive investment, local economic and business development and promotion of specific value chains and market systems. The ILO provides targeted support to labour market institutions, services and compliance and monitoring mechanisms that facilitate the integration of refugees into the labour market in accordance with its strong normative foundation of international labour standards. The ILO brings expertise on technical and vocational education and training and on the recognition of prior learning for certifying the skills of refugees to better ensure access to the labour market, and methods for assessing labour market demand to provide the right skills to refugees needed by employers.
For more information visit: www.ilo.org/prospects
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to reach the most disadvantaged children and adolescents – and to protect the rights of every child, everywhere. Since 1952, UNICEF has worked closely with the Government of Jordan to help children to realize their rights and fulfil their potential as they transition to adulthood.
Working with PROSPECTS, UNICEF is helping to build a better world for both refugee and host community children and young people through improved access to education and learning, protection services, social protection, skills building and engagement initiatives, entrepreneurship and training opportunities and career counselling.
Leveraging UNICEF’s strengths in supporting the most vulnerable children with evidence-based programming before, during and after a crisis, as well as advocating for improved policies and legislation that support children’s rights and sustainable development, the multi-year PROSPECTS partnership is helping to empower and build the resilience of communities in Jordan.
For more information about UNICEF and its work for children, adolescents and youth, visit www.unicef.org/jordan.
World Bank (WB)
The World Bank takes a development approach to the forced displacement crisis that complements humanitarian interventions; focuses on addressing longer term social and economic challenges; and benefits the forcibly displaced and their hosts. The World Bank brings to this partnership a comparative advantage through its analytic, operational and financial platforms, its global knowledge base, convening power and country dialogue. In the last few years the Bank has stepped up its support for displacement-affected populations with a wide array of additional activities and interventions including evidence-based analyses and increased annual commitments, while taking a lead for concessional financing through the Global Concessional Financing Facility (GCFF) and the IDA Regional Sub-Window for Refugees and Host Communities (currently the Window for Host Communities and Refugees). In the long term, the World Bank is putting a stronger focus on addressing the root causes of forced displacement, as well as supporting the move towards durable solutions, which include return and reintegration.
The Government of the Kingdom of the Netherland
The Government of the Netherlands brings long-term, flexible financial inputs to operationalize a development response to forced displacement situations. The Netherlands leverages its diplomatic links with the Government of Jordan and other stakeholders to further dialogue and generate an enabling environment for development interventions and to support coordination among PROSPECTS partners. The convening power of the Netherlands also allows other like-minded institutions and partners to share and move toward common goals.