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Country Office PortalAnnual Report 2011 for Jordan, MENA0Executive SummaryThe year 2011 started on a high note with the results of a survey by UNICEF and the Ministry of Educationfinding that physical violence in public and UNRWA schools had decreased by 11 per cent following anational communication for development campaign launched the year before. In addition, the Ministry ofHealth adopted a National Health Strategy to diagnose child abuse and create a referral process in thehealth system.A social protection initiative to support the National Aid Fund and Zakat Fund was carried out to improvethe conditionality and targeting mechanisms of their cash distribution assistance ensuring a more equitableapproach to beneficiaries, specifically children.For the first time in the region, Jordanian adolescents prepared their own report on the Convention on theRights of the Child (CRC), reflecting their opinions and views on its implementation in their country. Thischildren’s shadow report will be submitted along with the official and NGO shadow reports to the CRCCommittee while the findings will be discussed with policy makers in relevant ministries. Adolescentsinvolved in the preparation of the report come from different backgrounds and included school children,drop outs and children with disabilities.The General Budget Department Circular for 2011 included clear guidance on Child FriendlyBudgeting, which led to the 2012 budget allocations of the Ministries of Education, Health, Labour, andSocial Development being reviewed and amended with a focus on children’s programmes. This newbudgeting mechanism is paving the way to reach more disadvantaged children and ensuring a clearinvestment on disparities affecting children is implemented and monitored.The important national perinatal and neonatal mortality study to examine the causes, risk factors andcircumstances of death was delayed due to concerns about the sample size and reluctance to add to thealready heavy workload of medical staff of some designated hospitals. The development of the campaign topromote breastfeeding was challenged by the lack of evidence base on the situation of breastfeeding in thecountry. The endorsement of the new Juvenile Law was delayed due to lengthy approval processes.UNICEF Jordan successfully joined forces with other UN agencies (UNDP, UNFPA, UNWOMEN, UNHCR, andWHO) to support the development of a national computerised violence tracking system to monitor the flowof cases of violence and identify loopholes and gaps in the services.UNICEF has partnered with the Ministries of Interior, Awqaf, and Islamic Affairs to jointly advocate for anenvironment for children that is free from violence. Related to the above, UNICEF also partnered with aFacebook initiated network working to eliminate violence against children, which was adopted by JordanRiver Foundation.The Jordan country office (JCO) took part in a partnership satisfaction survey conducted by UNICEF in NewYork. This survey aims to further improve the relation between the JCO and its partners to deliver betterresults for children.Country SituationJordan is rated as a middle income and medium human development country, ranking 95th among 187countries in the 2011UNDP Human Development Index. The Millennium development goals (MDGs) havebeen integrated into the Government’s national developmental plans and have been making progress. The2010 MDG report[1] confirms that MDG 2 has been achieved, MDG 5 and 6 are on track, and MDG 1, 3, 4,and 7 are achievable if certain measures are taken. According to the MDG Report, the current globalfinancial and economic crisis constitutes an impediment to achieve unmet goals, affecting the poor moreData refreshed on: 2/24/2012 12:46:37 PMPage 1 of 40

Country Office PortalAnnual Report 2011 for Jordan, MENAacutely. The Government has a range of social protection and food and fuel subsidy programmes.Nevertheless, addressing the impact of the economic downturn remains a challenge.Opportunities for youth: In 2011, the Government took a proactive approach to the problems of youth(15 – 24 years). As part of the political and economic reform initiative, it instituted committees and otherforums supporting the participation of youth in political processes and promoted the profile of the HigherCouncil for Youth by giving it the status of a full-fledged Ministry. UNICEF gave added attention to the civicparticipation programme for adolescents aged 10 – 18 years. Jointly with the British Council, the JCOsupported the Government to integrate critical thinking into the curriculum and organize debate sessions inschools to encourage youth to express their voices. In 2011, adolescents figured prominently in the CCAand the UNDAF for 2013-2017 through support of civic engagement opportunities for adolescents in schooland in the society in general.Neonatal mortality: The infant mortality rate (IMR) is 23, and the under-five mortality rate is 28, perthousand live births[2]with slightly higher levels in rural areas. The neonatal mortality rate accounts for 68per cent of the IMR and needs to be addressed in order to meet the MDG 4 target. Supported by UNICEF,data collection for a national study on the causes of neonatal mortality has been almost completed in 2011.While almost all births occur in health facilities and 98 per cent of infants received DPT3 in 2009, coverageis consistently lower in rural areas. The exclusive breastfeeding rate is low at 22 per cent pointing to theneed for further efforts.Education: Jordan has generally a pro poor public financing policy for education. However, public financingof basic education is more pro-poor than that of secondary schooling. The latest net enrolment ratio(NER)[3] in primary education was 95 per cent for girls and 93 per cent for boys, and NER in secondaryschools stands at 83 per cent for girls and 80 per cent for boys. Jordan has achieved MDG 2, but disparitiesexist with lower enrolment levels in Mafraq, Jerash, Ma’an and Aqaba. Remaining disparities also includelow access for children with disabilities to proper schooling and low access of the poor to higher education.Primary education dropouts are presently only about 0.4 percent but an increase has been noticed in recentyears. The most at-risk group for dropping out is the 16-18 years old boys, also caused by a mismatchbetween curricula and labour market needs. Financial agreement for Education Reform for KnowledgeEconomy (ERFKE) II was signed between the government and the donors in 2011. ERFKE II intends topromote equity in education through increased access for students in the poorer quintiles, further closingthe gender gap, enhanced educational opportunities for early childhood education in poor (rural and urban)areas, and addressing the situation of students with special needs.Pre-primary education: Availability of nursery and pre-primary education is low, especially in poor andrural areas. No more than two percent of children 0-4 years old attend nursery services. However, from2008 to 2010, the overall number of kindergarten rooms and teachers increased. Kindergarten netenrolment was 39 per cent in 2008-2009 with no significant gender difference. Approximately 88 per centof enrolled children attended private and 12 per cent attended government kindergartens. The ERFKE aimsat ensuring KG 2 for all children.Decline in Violence against children in schools: According to a national survey in 2008, violenceagainst children is common with 70 per cent exposed to verbal violence at home and in school, while 34 percent were exposed to physical violence at home, and 57 per cent at school[4]. A survey done by theMinistry of Education in public and UNRWA schools in December 2010 revealed that physical violence byteachers against children was reduced by 11 percent and verbal abuse by 7 per cent as a result of thenational campaign to end violence in schools and homes.CRC and CEDAW:· The third and fourth CRC report was prepared and was complemented by a shadow report by children.Jordan’s CEDAW periodic report and the initial reports on the two optional protocols were finalized in aconsultative manner and submitted to the Committee by the Jordanian National Commission for Women(JNCW) and the National Council for Family Affairs (NCFA). The preparation of fourth and fifth CRC reportby the Government and the Shadow Report by NCHR continued in 2011, with input from a wide network ofNGOs.Data refreshed on: 2/24/2012 12:46:37 PMPage 2 of 40

Country Office PortalAnnual Report 2011 for Jordan, MENA· With regard to MDG 6 on HIV/AIDS prevention, Jordan is a low prevalence country. The Ministry of Healthmanaged the HIV/AIDS portfolio in coordination with the UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS. Toward achievingMDG 7, the Ministries of Environment, Water and Irrigation and Agriculture have put in place policies andaction plans. However, proper management of the scarce fresh water remains a key challenge. TheGovernment has played the lead role towards achieving MDG 8 by being proactive in joining globalinitiatives, bridging the scientific and technological divide between the North and the South, and promotingpublic-private partnership.[1] Second National Millennium Development Goals Report Jordan 2010, Ministry of Planning andInternational Cooperation 2010, http://www.undp-jordan.org/uploads/publications/UN 1292424706.pdf[2]Population and Family Health Survey 2009[3]State of the World’s Children Report, UNICEF, 2012[4]Violence against children study in Jordan, UNICEF, 2007.Who are the deprived children in your country context?About 57%, or 781,000, of the total poor are located in the more populated governorates of Amman, Irbid,and Zarqa, while 33.5% or about 263,000 reside in the poverty pockets, which are spread across thecountry. At the governorate level, the percentage of poverty varies from one governorate to another, with31.9% poverty in Mafraq, followed by Maan (24.2%) and Tafileh (21.1%).Poverty affects children disproportionately. Over 17 per cent of all children live below the poverty line, incontrast to about 10 per cent of working age adults, and 7 per cent of the elderly. Children make up 41 percent of the population, but 57 per cent of the poor. Jordan’s population of six million accordingly has some400,000 poor children, the majority of whom live in Amman, Irbid, and Zarqa.The key factors contributing to poverty include unemployment, low wages, and wide geographic disparities,which resulted in poverty accounting for 13.3% of the country’s population. (Poverty is measured as thepercentage of individuals whose spending is less than the average general poverty, calculated at 4.00 perperson per day). The distribution of wealth is also a key determinant. For example, while the GINI indexdecreased by 1.5% between 2006 and 2008, data show a rise in the poorest population group’s share (firstquintile) of the total income of the country from 7% in 2006 to 11.2% in 2008.Data/EvidenceThe Situation Analysis of children, country assessment, surveys and studies are the primary tools forbuilding knowledge on children, disparities and disadvantaged groups, also providing the basis for targetedprogramme interventions. In 2011, Jordan prepared the Country Assessment reflecting disparities as abasis for the development of the UNDAF. The JCO conducted a desk review of the situation of vulnerableIraqi children and women residing in Jordan, which informed the design of relevant programmeinterventions. UNICEF also finalized and launched a baseline study on sports to generate information on thesituation of adolescents and youth including those living in disadvantaged communities and provide a basisfor the improvement of the quality of sports programmes.A screening study of the psychosocial and mental health needs of children placed in residential care homesand juvenile detention centres in Jordan has been finalized this year to inform the development ofcommunity-based alternatives to institutional placement.Data refreshed on: 2/24/2012 12:46:37 PMPage 3 of 40

Country Office PortalAnnual Report 2011 for Jordan, MENAUNICEF also supported two major on-going studies that will guide and advance UNICEF’s work in the fieldof Young Child Survival and Development: one on the causes of neonatal mortality, and the other on thesituation of breastfeeding in the country.JorInfo, which is owned by the Department of Statistics (DOS), was established as a national databasewithin the DevInfo framework, and is periodically updated to capture information on the main issues relatedto children and women and their situation. The database is disaggregated by gender, age groups andgeographic area, as well as at the sub-national level as relevant. DevInfo was customized to be used as atool for the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) to monitor progress on indicators related to Child FriendlyCities.Monitoring MechanismJCO has developed results on equity under its current programme and is striving to ensure that focus onequity becomes an integral part of its regular monitoring and reporting systems. To this end, JCO, incooperation with MENARO, has determined targets and indicators for disparity reduction, ensuring theirintegration into the next Country Programme Cycle (2013-2017). Also the current programme indicatorshave been refined to enable the monitoring and assessment of progress on improving equity, which willrequire intensive and dedicated efforts at all levels. The office uses its Result Matrix and the monitoringcomponent of its project agreements and the activity reports by the institutional partners to monitor theachievement of results among the most disadvantaged population.As part of the development of the UNDAF 2013-2017, an M&E workshop was held in October 2011 by UNCTfor the further development of the UNDAF Results Matrix where national partners participated andcontributed to the formulation of results, outputs and indicators.Support to National PlanningUNICEF counterparts in the government and elsewhere maintain records and provide quarterly and annualprogress reports on the projects. However, financial and human resources allocated to M&E activities areinsufficient, especially among government partners.Supporting partners in tracking and assessing programme progress and results constituted JCO’s majorsupport to the Government of Jordan (GoJ). Assistance to partners was in the form of capacity building inM&E and conducting joint studies, surveys, qualitative assessments and evaluations covering certainthemes. It also involved the establishment/enhancement of equity-focused information monitoringsystems, to measure progress and effectiveness of programme interventions.The involvement of the General Budget Department in the Child Friendly Budgeting intervention will allowfor the tracking of state funds allocated for children with an annual monitoring report to be produced in2012, which will identify budget allocations to child programmes and track performance and utilization. TheJCO supported the Ministry of Education (MoE) in developing a school based tracking system to monitor theextent of verbal and physical violence and the use of negative reinforcement against students after theimplementation of the Ma’An campaign - a national programme for behaviour modification of teachers withregard to verbal and physical violence. This system allows the MoE to measure the change in the teachers’practices disaggregated by the student’s gender, school, grade, educational directorate, and theeducational authority.UNICEF collaborated with MoE to develop an M&E manual to ensure regular monitoring of psychosocialactivities conducted in schools as a result of the psychosocial training programme of counsellors andteachers. This manual will be used by the Counselling Department in the MoE and executed by the heads ofcounselling units in collaboration with counsellors and focal points at schools, as a tool to track projectData refreshed on: 2/24/2012 12:46:37 PMPage 4 of 40

Country Office PortalAnnual Report 2011 for Jordan, MENAimplementation and report on progress made.To strengthen Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) practices and capacities at the national level, UNICEF andthe Government Performance Administration (GPA) at the Prime Ministry of Jordan signed a Memorandumof Understanding to support a network of M&E professionals in Jordan with the aim of facilitating knowledgeexchange, and influencing policy and programme decisions by investing efforts in a reliable evidence-baseand a strong M&E culture within Jordan. A one-day meeting was held with 71 M&E practitioners to begin adialogue, discuss terms of reference and formulate a work plan for the future to enabling it to serve as anM&E network. Also, a one day RBM orientation meeting was conducted for partners of the EmergencyProgramme to enhance their understanding of planning and managing for results.Any other relevant information related to data/evidence?Country Programme Analytical OverviewTwo main strategies guide the country programme: Upstream support for national policies, strategies, andenabling an equitable environment for all children to realize their rights, and targeted interventions toaddress sub-national issues and issues directly associated with disadvantaged communities and children.(1) Upstream workVisibility of budget allocations benefitting children. A team from the General Budget Department (GBD) andpilot Ministries was trained on “Budgeting for Better Results for Children” and a 5-year Child BudgetEngagement Plan was put in place. The GBD Circular for 2011 included instructions and forms on ChildFriendly Budgeting. Strategic plans, objectives, programmes, activities, as well as 2012 budget allocationsof the pilot ministries (Education, Health, Labour, and Social Development) were reviewed and amendedwith a focus on children’s programmes. The project will further work on budget analysis, improved resourceallocation and monitoring focusing on disadvantaged children and disparities.Knowledge generation and monitoring. JCO supports the integration of child related indicators in thecountry’s DHS surveys and works with the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and other UNagencies on poverty analysis and monitoring of disaggregated socio-economic data on children. A nationalperinatal and neonatal mortality study to examine the causes, risk factors and circumstances of death willhelp achieve MDG 4. Also planned are studies on poverty, children with disabilities, social protection, andschool dropouts.Support for the adoption of policies and strategies including IMCI strategy for under-five health; detectionand referral strategy on child abuse by medical staff; revision and activation of Parent Teacher Associationsand Student councils (Necessary budget lines in the Ministry of Education (MoE) budget were created, andan ISO compliant monitoring system enhanced the roles of students in schools); a multi-layer strategy tostop violence in schools; and the adoption of a National Plan of Action for early childhood care. Future focusshould be on an improved juvenile justice system to adopt restorative justice practices.(2) Targeted interventionsThe Better Parenting programme is designed to help parents gain better knowledge and child rearingpractices and in the case of parents of adolescents, improve their skills to manage intergenerational gaps.This programme mostly benefits disadvantaged communities, and needs to be scaled up and adopted bythe concerned Ministry to expand services to cover all disadvantaged communities.A social protection initiative to support National Aid Fund and Zakat Fund is carried out to improve theconditionality and targeting mechanisms of their cash distribution assistance ensuring a more equitableapproach to their beneficiaries. Their management information system also needs to be improved toData refreshed on: 2/24/2012 12:46:37 PMPage 5 of 4

Pre-primary education: Availability of nursery and pre-primary education is low, especially in poor and rural areas. No more than two percent of children 0-4 years old attend nursery services. However, from 2008 to 2010, the overall number of ki

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