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PM checks on major projects in southern Jordan Valley
By JT - Jun 27,2021 - Last updated at Jun 27,2021
Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Bisher Al Khasawneh checks on a project during his visit to the southern Jordan Valley on Saturday (Petra photo)
AMMAN Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Bisher Al Khasawneh on Saturday toured the southern Jordan Valley as part of his recent field visits and tours to a number of regions in the Kingdom, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
Khasawneh was accompanied by the Minister of Water and Irrigation Muhammad Najjar, Minister of Agriculture Khalid Hneifat and the Minister of State for Follow-up and Government Coordination Nawaf Tall, Minister of Youth Mohammad Al Nabulsi, Minister of Interior Mazen Faraya, Minister of Health Feras Al Hawari, and the administrator of the southern Jordan Valley Brig. Khaled Qudah.
A video showing Israeli and Jordanian women embracing and meeting caused an uproar among Jordanians late last month.
It was posted on Israel’s official Arabic-language Facebook page, highlighting an Israeli government-backed initiative called Bless Your Hands.
The initiative purports to “support the socioeconomic and environmental well-being of the communities of Israeli and Jordanian women” in Wadi Araba, an area south of the Dead Sea along the border between Israel and Jordan.
Under the banner of promoting textile handicrafts and business development, the project brings together Israeli and Jordanian women for “meetings and seminars in both Israel and Jordan.”
It involves the Jordanian women collecting and processing wool from local sheep and exporting it to the Israeli women, who then make it into decorative textiles that are priced as high as $1,100 apiece.
With $850,000: The UN Aims to Support Jordan Women Via Covid-19 Project Published March 3rd, 2021 - 07:43 GMT
King Abdullah Mosque - Jordan (Shutterstock)
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This new funding is part of the ongoing financial and technical assistance from multiple UN agencies to find ways to redress this impact, especially on the most vulnerable population and ensure the socio-economic recovery, while building back better
The United Nations COVID-19 Response and Recovery Multi Partner Trust Fund announced $850,000 in funding to implement a new project in response to the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in Jordan.
Titled “the Socio-Economic Empowerment of Vulnerable Women in Ghor Al Safi through Improving Access to Safe and Green Public Spaces”, the project comes in line with the UN Socio-Economic Framework in Response to COVID-19 in Jordan and will be implemented jointly by UN-Habitat, the lead Agency, UNOPS and ILO, according to a UN statement.
UN COVID response fund to support vulnerable women in Ghor Al Safi
By JT - Mar 03,2021 - Last updated at Mar 03,2021
AMMAN The United Nations COVID-19 Response and Recovery Multi Partner Trust Fund announced $850,000 in funding to implement a new project in response to the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 in Jordan.
Titled “the Socio-Economic Empowerment of Vulnerable Women in Ghor Al Safi through Improving Access to Safe and Green Public Spaces”, the project comes in line with the UN Socio-Economic Framework in Response to COVID-19 in Jordan and will be implemented jointly by UN-Habitat, the lead Agency, UNOPS and ILO, according to a UN statement.