Refugee women ‘worse off’ two years into Jordan Compact — report

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Two years into the implementation of the Jordan Compact, an agreement aimed at improving the resilience of refugees and host communities in Jordan, many refugees, especially women, find themselves in a worse situation than before, a report published on Monday by the NGO Refugees International (RI) pointed out.

Described as a “paradigm shift” upon its signing by Jordan and the global community in February 2016, the compact entailed the provision of financial aid to the Kingdom, in exchange for Syrian refugees’ facilitated access to the labour market, according to relevant literature.