Amman: The total value of foreign aid, including grants and soft loans committed to Jordan in 2022, amounted to about $4.4 billion, the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation announced Monday.
According to the ministry’s foreign aid report, issued Monday, this aid was distributed as follows: Regular grants amounting to $1.66 billion, including grants to support the general state budget amounting to $1.12 billion, and the rest to implement development projects at the national level.
The volume of additional grants directed to support the Syrian crisis response plan amounted to about $760 million this year, constituting 33.4 per cent of the amount of funding required for the Jordan Response Plan to the Syrian crisis, the report said.
The volume of contracted soft loans amounted to about $2 billion, $1.47 billion of which to support the general state budget or sectoral support through the general budget, and the remaining amount is to implement development projects through the relevant sectoral ministries.
According to the report, the key economic sectors that leveraged grants and soft loans within foreign aid last year are: the general state budget support with a rate of 41.2 per cent, the water and sanitation sector with a rate of 14.4 per cent, then the food security and agriculture sector with a rate of 13.2 per cent, while the social protection sector accounted for 11.7 per cent, then the education sector accounted for 4.7 per cent, and employment, vocational training and livelihoods accounted for 3.1 per cent, and the remaining amounts were distributed among other sectors.
The Ministry of Planning said that this aid came as a result of His Majesty King Abdullah’s efforts with brotherly and friendly countries and entities, who support the reforms that Jordan is implementing at all levels.
Source: Jordan News Agency