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Despite Jordan’s key strategic position and relative stability within the Middle East, it is challenged by many factors, including lack of natural resources, most notably water and energy; dependence on foreign resources and aid; strained infrastructure; high unemployment rates; low political participation; lack of women’s participation in the public sphere, youth bulge and growing inequality. Furthermore, Jordan’s economy depends heavily on diaspora remittances and tourism, two of its main sources of foreign currency, with a total of 3.798 JD billion in remittances in 2015. The influx of Syrian refugees since 2011 has added to existed challenges. According to UNHCR, Jordan hosts the second largest population of refugees per capita globally with 87 refugees per 1,000 people. As of 7 April 2016, UNHCR-Jordan has registered 638,633 Syrian refugees in Jordan, and about 80% of refugees settled outside refugees’ camps. Moreover, Syrian and Iraqi refugees live primarily in Jordan’s most vulnerable communities with 32.7% refugees in Amman, 20.7% in Irbid, 11.3% in Mafraq, and 7.5% in Zarqa.

 Driven by inequality, sense of economic marginalization including relative deprivation, unemployment, lack of political participation, state-citizen distrust, social marginalization (but also networks to facilitate their socialization with violent extremist groups), and low self-esteem, youth constitute the majority of people who join violent extremist groups. This is particularly concerning for Jordan because its population of 9.5 million people is overwhelmingly young, with 54.3% of the population under 25 years of age and only 45 % of the population in this age group was economically active in 2015. Moreover, in 2015, Jordan was the highest contributor per capita in the world of foreign fighters active in Syria. These statistics do not reflect the number of people who have radical views, at –risk or linked to violent extremist groups, still living in Jordan.

 Even though Jordan has taken a number of steps in order to address this phenomenon:

 In November 2015 the Ministry of Interior established the first national PVE program under the Directorate of Combating Extremism and Violence;

The Community Peace Center, under the Public Security Directorate, operates a preventive radicalization program with local communities and civil society and a prison-based de-radicalization program;

The Ministry of Interior, the Public Security Directorate (PSD), have authority over non-terrorist related crimes; and

The newly established Directorate of Combating Extremism and Violence is tasked to develop preventative and remedial strategies.

 Yet, Jordan currently does not have a comprehensive national strategy for prevention of violent extremism in place. In response, UNDP Jordan is implementing the “Support to Preventing Violent Extremism in Jordan” Project.  Overall, the project aims to strengthen national efforts at reducing the threat of radicalization and violent extremism, especially among vulnerable populations like youth. The three-pronged project aims to strengthen national and local capacities for preventing violent extremism, stabilize livelihoods and create job opportunities for Jordanians nationwide, and foster social cohesion in those communities. Working in collaboration with the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Interior, National Aid Fund, local governorates, NGOs, CBOs, and CSOs, UNDP Jordan employs a multi-sector approach to support national efforts towards  stability and social cohesion by implementing an interconnected set of interventions targeting root causes of violent extremism, through empowering local communities, strengthening the capacity of the state to respond to the needs of the citizens, cultivating social capital, creating youth employment, and building linkages between local, sub-national and national levels of governance in order to most effectively preventive violent extremism in Jordan.

 UNDP Jordan launched a programme titled “Mitigating the Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis through Support to Host Communities” signed between UNDP and the Government of Jordan in June 2013 to help the Government of Jordan in alleviating the impact of Syrian crisis and improving the standards of living for Jordanians in the host communities. The programme encompasses six outputs:

Short-term employment opportunities created and economic recovery initiatives developed geared towards improvement of livelihoods and basic social services deliveries

Enhanced local economic development through skills-matching, MSMEs growth and capacity development;

Improved delivery of municipal and social services;

Develop State-society trust, strengthening community security and social cohesion;

Enhancing community security and crime prevention and support to legal aid in Jordan; and

Technical support to coordination of host community concerns.

Responding to the fourth output, UNDP Jordan seeks to “strengthen national efforts in reducing the threat of terrorism and radicalization, especially among youth and vulnerable marginalized societal groups, to ensure the continued stabilization of Jordan”. The strategy includes three interlinked integrated support pillars: (a) strengthening national and local capacities for counter-terrorism and de-radicalization; b) supporting livelihoods creation for marginalized youth and women in poor communities; and c) fostering social cohesion between Jordanian host communities and Syrian refugees. Such an integrated approach will support national efforts in comprehensively tackling terrorism and radicalization, and enhancing social resilience in the Jordanian society. The project is implemented in five Governorates; Mafraq, Irbid, Zarqa, Tafeeleh and Ma’an.