Funding teachers’ salaries for teaching Syrian refugee children in Jordan VII

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The Jordanian education system is heavily overloaded due to the number of Syrian refugees, meaning that a large number of Syrian children cannot attend school. The majority of refugee children are taught in double-shift schools, usually separately from local children, which makes integration difficult. At the same time, there is a lack of employment opportunities for Jordanians, which is increasingly leading to social tensions against the backdrop of the refugee crisis. The core problem was further exacerbated by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to help maintain and expand the employment of teachers and administrative staff in order to improve access to primary and secondary education for Syrian refugee children. The measure includes the continuation of the financing of salaries for a total of 5,430 teaching and administrative staff in the 2022/2023 school year and focuses primarily on regions with a particularly high density of refugees in the north of the country and in Amman. In cooperation with other donors (especially the EU, USAID, UK), this will ensure the financing of lessons for up to 150,000 Syrian children. The project sponsor is the Jordanian Ministry of Education (MoE), which already acted as sponsor in the previous phases.