AMMAN: The US Agency for International Development has offered the World Food Programme in Jordan $22 million in assistance toward the country’s response plan to the Syrian refugee crisis, Jordan News Agency reported.
According to a statement issued by USAID on Sunday, the new funding will allow the WFP to provide food vouchers and monthly cash assistance to about 465,000 refugees, preventing a short-term aid gap.
The new assistance package will bring USAID’s total contribution in 2022 to about $89 million, accounting for almost one-third of the financial needs of the UN program to provide food aid in Jordan in 2022, it said.
Despite the new aid, the WFP still has a $34.5 million deficit, forcing it to cut cash transfers for 353,000 refugees living in Jordan’s cities and other host communities by one-third beginning in September.
USAID Mission Director in Jordan Sherry Carlin said that the world could address the global food security crisis through coordinated action and commitment to collective action, humanitarian aid and investment in food systems.
