UN Women Jordan Country Office developed a new strategic programme of support to the Government of Jordan for the period 2018-2022. This programme focuses on supporting Jordan’s efforts to continue to respond to the humanitarian crisis in the region while strengthening its own resilience, stability and security. Framed within the global policy context of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the central promise in Jordan’s national planning documents to leave no one behind, in particular vulnerable women and youth, the new programme clearly draws the links between women’s empowerment, sustainable development and Jordan’s security and stability.

UN Women’s new strategic programme applies a “resilience and empowerment” approach, designed to build the short and medium-term resilience of vulnerable refugee and Jordanian women, while also promoting the long term enabling environment for their empowerment. The programme will achieve this through three key areas of work: policy development and global norms; women’s economic empowerment; and women’s voices in peace, security and humanitarian action.