Annual Report 2017
www.jordanriver.jo Table of Contents Annual Report 2017
23 Years of Empowered 04 Generations Table of A Message from the 06 Director General Contents 08 Vision, Mission, Values 10 Governance
Board of Trustees 11 12 Our Programs & Impact 14 Empowering Communities 28 Protecting Children 38 Training to Success 46 Building Social Enterprises 52 Donors & Partners
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23 Years of Empowered Generations
Chaired by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, the Jordan River Foundation (JRF) is a non-profit, non- governmental organization established in 1995.
For the past 23 years, JRF has been helping generations of and the socio-economic independence of Jordanians and individuals to realize their full potential as proactive citizens refugees alike; focusing on children, youth, and women. contributing to the social, economic and familial wellbeing of their communities. JRF has also been supporting homegrown solutions designed Focusing on community empowerment and child safety as its to engage local communities and help them address two main pillars, JRF has been supporting local communities challenges, while placing the wellbeing of children at the center across Jordan by advocating social justice, poverty alleviation, of the Foundation’s development initiatives.
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What Matters Now
At JRF, empowerment has always been a genuine Building social enterprises through handicraft collective of trainers, specialists, partners, donors, and projects and centers for homemade culinary arts has beneficiaries. A collaboration making a real difference impacted thousands of community women and their by offering communities, youth, women and children families. We continue our mission towards combating access to sustainable livelihoods, equal opportunities, unemployment in Jordan, with a special focus on and abuse-free environments. vulnerable youth, in an economy grappling with a joblessness rate of 18 percent. Each year, and since our establishment in 1995 by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, we enable Our income-generating initiatives, including a joint thousands of individuals to overcome economic and handicrafts project with IKEA, are about women’s right social challenges through our development programs to a better future; they are about helping them rise in Community Empowerment, Child Safety, Training above themselves and unleash their entrepreneurial and Consultancy, and Social Enterprises. potential. This model is able to save families, otherwise facing a future shackled by issues such as child abuse, Under these unique and interventions, vulnerable troubled youth, violence, crime, child marriages, sexual woman refugees become breadwinners, youth qualify exploitation, and human trafficking, to name a few. for jobs, and children become aware of their rights and ways women protect themselves against all forms of 2017 has been a year of great triumphs and abuse. challenges; with the launch of innovative empowerment models and new child safety programs; all designed to envision a Jordan for safer children, We’ve been able to develop and replicate equal opportunities and sustainable growth. our empowerment models across an array of We look forward to welcoming 2018 with your organizations and counterparts, transforming our continuous support and partnership, in this life- experience into best practice models, both adaptable changing endeavor, that is called JRF. and scalable.
Sincerely Yours, Enaam Barrishi
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Our Vision A Jordan where solutions are homegrown, where the opportunity to prosper is for all, and where the wellbeing of our children shapes our future.
Our Mission To engage Jordanians to realize their full economic potential and overcome social challenges, especially child abuse.
Our Values Social Justice Responsibility Participation Sustainability
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Governance Board of Trustees
Since the establishment of the Foundation, Her Majesty proper implementation of required administrative and • Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah Queen Rania Al Abdullah has been involved in all aspects of financial systems and procedures. Among the Board’s key Chairperson its growth and development. In her role as Chairperson of responsibilities is the utilization of sound fiscal and ethical the Board of Trustees, Her Majesty chairs board meetings accounting and management practices, ultimately ensuring and provides visionary leadership to ensure the continuity of that the Foundation maintains full transparency and • Mr. Amin Khlaifat • Mrs. Reem Goussous Fakhoury long-term, impact oriented programs. accountability at all times. Vice Chairperson The Foundation’s Board of Trustees is comprised of individuals from the public, private, and non-profit sectors; The Board meets on a quarterly basis to oversee • Mr. Sa’ed Karajah • Mrs. Taima Khoury Kawar working hand in hand to provide guidance and expertise the smooth execution of all JRF activities and legal towards the strategic development of JRF. responsibilities. It also lays down strategies and approves Board Secretary long-term annual business plans. In their capacities, they oversee and monitor the implementation of all JRF projects, whilst ensuring the • H.E. Mrs. Suzanne Afanah • H.E. Ms. Khawla Al Armouti
• H.E. Dr. Nawal Al Faouri • Mr. Ihab Saadi
• Mr. Tarik Awad • Mrs. Enaam Barrishi Director General
• Eng. Khalid Nahhas
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Our Programs Our Impact
JRF realizes its mission of empowering communities and The Foundation oversees a multitude of services, initiatives, promoting child safety and protection through a variety of and centers to empower communities and promote family integrated programs, adopting international best practices and child safety. Program beneficiaries are the biggest in assessment, implementation and quality control. testament to JRF’s impact. JRF’s initiatives have succeeded in creating sustainable livelihoods for individuals and communities, as well as promoting child safety and sound The holistic approach applied in JRF’s programs is parenting practices. unmatched locally and regionally. JRF makes every step count, whether in supporting entrepreneurship or in helping 50,094 4331 218 families maintain their unity. Professionals and Beneficiaries Community based community members of community organizations received specialized empowerment partnering with training programs JRF
14,093 Children, families and women received protection and parenting support
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Empowering Communities
Since its launch in 1997, the Jordan River Community JRCEP also aims to mobilize members of vulnerable Empowerment Program (JRCEP) has worked diligently communities with the potential to become entrepreneurs or to provide local community members with economic employees. The program’s overall objective is to increase opportunities to improve their livelihoods and that of their household incomes, self reliance and resilience through two families. JRCEP has benefited thousands of individuals areas: and families by implementing programs and projects • that empower communities to articulate their needs and Micro and Small Enterprises and Entrepreneurship. facilitate their contribution to their own economic and social • Job Placement and Workforce Development development.
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Our Projects Development and Support of Saving and Credit Groups and Associations Impact Ajloun, Jerash, Mafraq, Balqa, Madaba
Funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development and Support of Saving and Credit Groups and 543 Development (IFAD), the Rural Economic Growth and Associations, as well as Business Mentoring and Marketing Employment Project (REGEP) aims to contain and reduce and Specific Training for Farmer Groups and Associations. 4062 1317 poverty, vulnerability and inequality across rural areas in The main objective was to create sustainable jobs and Ajloun, Jerash, Mafraq, Balqa and Madaba. Partnering income generating opportunities for local communities Beneficiaries attended Beneficiaries established with IFAD, and in cooperation with the Jordan Enterprise across these governorates, especially among youth and awareness sessions 114 Saving and Credit 774 Development Corporation (JEDCO), JRF managed and women, through business mentorship and facilitating Groups implemented two main initiatives under REGEP: the access to grants.
354 521 219,080 JD Full time equivalent Beneficiaries successfully Total amount of money jobs created established agribusinesses saved as internal saving 1102 384 718 Achievements Trainees reached through capacity building programs Increased and advocated Launched several Increased and advocated Advocated key business the participation of unprecedented agricultural the role and participation of concepts including: financial beneficiaries in agricultural products including the community women across literacy, value chain, and bazaars and exhibitions. plantation of: sesame several agricultural projects entrepreneurial thinking. seeds, turmeric, flax, and in targeted governorates. Adopted innovative water peanuts. saving methods across a number of key agricultural projects. 100 Grants for individuals and groups 156 313 distributed across five governorates, supporting 469 beneficiaries
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Pathways to Poverty Reduction for Vulnerable Jordanians and Success Stories TAILORED FOR Syrian Refugees SUCCESS
Amman, Madaba, Irbid “The jobs I had in the past Center. I joined a 15-day been doing this for the past sell as well. It was a tough were spontaneous attempts training course offered five years, based out of start, but I am confident I to make ends meet,” says by JRF, which helped me my home, but I didn’t have can scale up my business Funded by the United Nations High Commissioner for by assessing and launching micro businesses and Syrian refugee Ammar later develop an idea for a the capacity to expand the through the grant I’ve Refugees (UNHCR), the project is designed to mitigate developing workforce readiness skills, which in turn would Kazarah. “I heard about micro-business. My project business with more material received through JRF.” the Program through JRF’s offers ready made clothes and machinery. I didn’t economic and social challenges facing host communities increase employment prospects in the private sector. Queen Rania Family & Child and tailoring services. I had have enough clothes to affected by the Syrian Refugee Crisis. JRF aims through the Qualified beneficiaries received grants to start their own initiative to improve the livelihoods of Syrian and Jordanian income generating projects. beneficiaries across Amman, Madaba and Irbid,
Achievements AIMING HIGH
Improved the self-reliance Provided training in financial Conducted socio-economic to the overall understanding “I’ve spent the first four reached out and informed of 200 urban refugee and literacy, sustainable assessments across Syrian of sustainable livelihood years working at several me about a 10-day training Jordanian households. livelihoods, and communities in targeted solutions to be scaled up in local butcher shops. I course, after which I had a wasn’t really comfortable; job interview at Carrefour. self-employment. governorates; contributing the future. Adopted innovative poverty long working hours, I I landed a job there: eight wasn’t treated fairly, and I hours a day, including a one alleviation models including Conducted awareness rarely saw my family,” says hour break, and medical cash transfers to stabilize sessions on understanding Alaa Basher Al-Jasem, a insurance. I never thought income. local market needs. Syrian refugee. “I had no the day would come when work permit, no medical I could settle in with a insurance or social security. sustainable income and a I was scared, because steady job!” I violated the law. JRF Impact 214 120 80 Total number of Established micro- Beneficiaries employed beneficiaries businesses by the private sector
Increase in household 74% incomes
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Enhancing Access to Livelihoods and Employment Opportunities for Jordanians and Syrian Refugees Ramtha
In partnership with JRF, the UNDP funded program aims their crisis management skills and offering access to to advocate intervention initiatives offering resilience immediate livelihoods and sustainable income generating based development solutions for Syrian refugees residing opportunities. JRF has adopted UNDP’s renowned and in Ramtha. The project also aims to strengthen the ability innovative three phased approach (3x6) in promoting of local communities and Syrian refugees in Ramtha sustainable livelihoods for local communities and refugees to address socio-economic challenges, by developing affected by disasters and violent conflicts.
Impact 152 76 76 Total number Employed Started their of beneficiaries Own Businesses
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Community Empowerment Impact Initiative in Mafraq Mafraq Trained Beneficiaries to be employed beneficiaries by September 2018 Implemented by JRF and in partnership with local in Mafraq. Funded by the Regional Development and organizations across Mafraq, the project aims to improve Protection Programme (RDPP), the project includes training 286 100 the livelihoods of Jordanians and Syrian refugees, with the in capacity building, economic empowerment, and local aim of launching income-generating micro businesses, and community mobilization. securing sustainable jobs for unemployed beneficiaries Micro-businesses to be launched/ 170 developed by September 2018
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Tamkeenoha Initiative Success Stories HOMEMADE TRIUMPHS Madaba, Balqa Esraa Wishah turned her an employee: underpaid, through JRF,” says Esraa. variety of homemade kitchen into a homemade overworked, having no “I have a social security products targeting food business after savings, social security account, I am supporting customers seeking Funded by The Royal Hashemite Court, the initiative aims to institutional capacities, mainly in portfolio and project receiving seed funding or health insurance. “I’ve my family, and have been organic preservative-free via Tamkeenoha. It didn’t scaled up my business, able to employ women products.” empower local authorities to facilitate zero interest loans for management, as well as monitoring and evaluation. The come easy. She spent years thanks to the training from my neighborhood local community women, across Madaba and Balqa, which project’s main objectives include: strengthening the role of clocking long hours as and funding I’ve received to help produce a in turn would create sustainable income-generating projects local development bodies, building a credit system serving that would leverage livelihoods of families and individuals villages in Madaba and Balqa, and leveraging the economic across the two governorates. JRF’s mandate revolves empowerment of women through the development and around enhancing the developmental role of women’s implementation of sustainable income-generating projects associations by managing loan portfolios and building and feasibility studies.
Impact
Total number of trained 152 beneficiaries2017
To be trained by 270 February 2019
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Internal Strengthening For Citi Micro Entrepreneurship Change - Phase II Award Tafileh, Karak, Ma’an, Jerash, Ajloun, Zarqa
Funded by FHi360, the project aims to enhance the networking and partnership opportunities. The project also Implemented by the Citi Foundation, the Citi Micro non-governmental and private sector institutions. Selection level of awareness of civil society organizations (CSO) enables small CSOs throughout the Kingdom to engage Entrepreneurship Award aims to strengthen the effective role criteria is based on measuring both the entrepreneurial concerning the fundamentals of nonprofit management and participate in local development, empowering change of microfinance in alleviating poverty worldwide. This award potential and income levels of future entrepreneurs and and governance, by utilizing existing institutional capacity among vulnerable communities. seeks to create awareness and appreciation of the active business visionaries. For the past 12 years, JRF has development tools, as well as providing CSOs with contributions of individual micro entrepreneurship projects. been facilitating nominations, press campaigns and an Since the launch of the award in 2005 in Jordan, which has annual awards ceremony. Winners of the 2017 awards, so far recognized the achievements of 274 entrepreneurs, representing an array of industries including trade, services, JRF has been offering turn key management support liaising agriculture, tourism, and green energy, were offered Citibank with nominees, recommended by a number of MFIs and grants to help develop and expand their projects. Impact lending institutions. JRF has also formed a national selection committee consisting of individuals from governmental,
Total number 168 of beneficiaries
9 CSOs 32 CSOs
Developed and implemented internal functional P&P Developed and implemented 3-year internal plans based on manuals (Procurement, Good Governance and Financial institutional development assessments. Management).
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Protecting Children
Launched in 1997, the Jordan River Child Safety Program JRCSP’s mission is to mitigate violence against children (JRCSP) is the result of Her Majesty Queen Rania by raising community awareness, offering capacity Al Abdullah’s relentless efforts to place the welfare of building to transform participants into advocates within children at the forefront of national policy agendas. The their communities, later becoming advocates within program aims to promote child protection and safety, and their communities, and encouraging holistic and healthy enhance positive child rearing practices by approaching interactions between family members. JRF works closely the family as a whole unit. The program works in two areas: with governmental and non-governmental entities to enforce intervention through rehabilitation services for abused child protection laws, as part of Jordan’s commitment to children, and prevention; offering comprehensive services the Human Rights Treaty. This all encompassing approach that protect children’s rights and promote a culture of sound is the result of relentless work and a solid record of parenting and child safety in Jordan. accomplishments in the field of child and family safety.
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Highlights Our Helpline
Launched in 2007, JRF’s 110 for Families & Children impairing their parenting, as well as abuse cases. The Helpline is an unprecedented, free of charge service helpline is a confidential service that primarily focuses available throughout Jordan, operating 7 days a week from on women and children. It prevents abused children and 9:00 –-19:00. The Helpline offers services in psychological women from being stigmatized and provides callers with support and consultation, as well as referrals. The service resources and guidance that do not obstruct, label or judge aims to alleviate the effect of risk factors children in them. vulnerable families, including families facing challenges
Number of cases that relieved Number of received case management, counseling 248,403 calls during 2017 5460 and referrals
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Our Community Centers Impact
Activities and interventions provided by JRF’s community Center (QRCEC). Both centers serve as hubs and case Total number of centers focus on two pillars: family and child safety, and study labs to help launch new program ideas. They work in economic empowerment. To this end, JRF has established partnership and in coordination with local communities and QRFCC beneficiaries branches for two of its community centers across Jordan: institutions across Jordan, while engaging public and private 4500 the Queen Rania Family and Child Center (QRFCC), and organizations in a series of development projects aimed at the Queen Rania Al Abdullah Community Empowerment empowering individuals, families and communities.
Success Stories Beit Zgheer Art Therapy IN THE LIMELIGHT The program is designed to help each child develop self QRFCC offers a series of child-focused projects including Lama, 15 years, suffered After attending 12 art of pottery making activities Today, Lama is giving back Beit Zgheer; a interactive space aimed at increasing expression and confidence skills through 15 special art severe emotional abuse therapy sessions with 15 that helped her express her to her community after knowledge and awareness of key concepts pertaining to sessions, during which parents are actively involved in by her family, including girls, Lama was able to emotions and address her becoming a volunteer at the maternal negligence, rekindle her self confidence anxieties with the support of Center. protection from child abuse. Beit Zgheer consists of a small interacting with and interpreting their children’s artworks. which contributed to her and emotional wellbeing. the group she worked with house, and a park overlooking a popular neighborhood anxiety attacks and weak She participated in a series on a daily basis. communications skills. where children are introduced to key survival concepts Green House including traffic safety and dealing with strangers. The project also aims to reinforce privacy and anonymity to QRFCC’s Green House Project aims to leverage children’s encourage children to talk about and discuss sensitive financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and life skills, through SLAYING DRAGONS issues related to abuse. It’s an educational microcosm a series of gardening and environment friendly activities focusing on micro business projects and agricultural Ibrahim, 10 years, spent 18 Al-Nasser. An introvert at group therapy sessions him earn money and resonating with real world situations and challenges, and is months of his childhood in home and school, Ibrahim at QRFCC. He was later contribute to his family’s a hub for advocating key social concepts that go beyond initiatives. a war zone before his family overcame the overwhelming actively involved in several expenses. children’s rights to include topics like personal hygiene, decided to seek refuge in emotions that welled up business literacy activities QRFCC’s three major projects will be replicated in Aqaba Jordan’s Zaatari Camp, through the war years in and projects organized by personal space and emotional intelligence. later relocating to Jabal Syria, following a series of the Center, which helped during 2018.
Raised the awareness of Over Over Over 1500 1700 1500 1300 women and female women and adolescents underwent cases of abused children were children were targeted adolescents concerning the interactive awareness sessions addressed, many ending up through a series of summer risks of child marriage. addressing sound parenting tips, many of whom being referred to and winter camps and child safety practices, and self- case management staff. activities. assertiveness.
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Our Projects
Capacity Building Through Case Management Support
The project aims to improve the level of services allocated methodologies, procedures and standards. An initial referral to domestic violence cases handled by governmental social system was created addressing the needs of children and workers (the Ministry of Social Development, & the Family families while accumulated open case files were reviewed Protection Department); leveraging their case management by a team of trained social workers from different GOs and skills by adopting international case management NGOs.
Impact
2029 773 1256 Case files Case files closed Case files recommended accumulated for further follow up
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Safe Spaces and Access to Protection Services for Families and Children Success Stories QUIET AGGRESSIONS East Amman, Mafraq Following a series of challenges and problems parenting sessions, peacefully. Life is no longer Ahmad’s physical a series of parental fits and The project expands and strengthens child protection violence (SGBV), including victims of early marriage. The aggression towards his family fights. efforts in vulnerable communities, mainly in areas mostly children became a thing of project is implemented by JRF’s Queen Rania Family and the past. He reconnected affected by the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Funded by the United Child Center in East Amman, in partnership with several with his wife and children, Nations Office for the Coordination of the Humanitarian community based organizations, including the Jordanian and began to address Affairs (OCHA), child protection activities include both Society for the Care of Orphans and Juveniles in Mafraq. intervention and prevention, focusing on children at risk, and those involved in child labor and sexual gender based
Impact NEW BEGINNINGS Amal’s way of raising brink of escape. Following “Offending children by any her children relied on a series of specialized means only conjures havoc. psychological abuse. parenting courses via JRF, Nothing good comes out of Curses filled the house, and Amal gradually came to abuse,” reflects Amal. her children were on the terms with her temper. Total number 1676 of beneficiaries
Caregivers received Beneficiaries Empowered training in parenting attended awareness 297 Youth 239 education 801 sessions
Case management Psychosocial services provided to interventions provided to 365Cases Cases23
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Nour: Child Friendly Spaces Impact Amman Children attended art, life Funded by World Vision, the project aims to empower Jordanians and Syrian children and adolescents within the skills, edutainment and sports activities Jordanians and Syrian refugee children and youth within ages of 6 and 17; focusing on life skills training including 1438 Jordan’s host communities by improving their quality of self expression, communication, decision making, critical life through active social engagement, integration and thinking, problem solving, in addition to concepts related participation. The project focuses on protection and to healthcare, environmental awareness and communal prevention concepts related to abuse. Implemented at integration. the Queen Rania Family and Child Center, Nour targets
Success Stories FOUR YEARS OF SOLITUDE
Spending four years in of breakdown. Enrolling in hometown in Syria. Back read my name on a book complete social isolation a series of basic life skills to school and invigorated, one day, and it will be your with no friends to visit, training helped her express Zainab is ready for life. favorite!” and no school to attend long buried emotions “I dream of becoming a brought Zainab to the brink and memories of a lost famous author. You will
REBIRTH Rasoul, a young 17 years people. But three months QRFCC, and a role model till it hit me one day: What old Jordanian, recoiled of coaching were enough for his community and the about my future? I learned from life as he gradually lost to unleash a new Rasoul; children he coaches there. “I a lot through JRF’s QRFCC, interest in interacting with now a volunteer at JRF’s was alone most of the time, I’ve discovered a new me!”
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Foster Care Amman Success Stories TOGETHER, AGAIN
Targeting orphans, children of unknown parents, and by providing psycho-social therapy, relying on evidence Reuniting Samia with her to integrate her with a foster rehabilitation sessions prior children of disintegrated families, the project aims to based interventions, as well as local needs assessments. brother and sister was family that had already to joining her new family. closer to a miracle. The adopted her siblings. decrease child admissions to residential care institutions by The project also features weekly psychological sessions Foster Care team managed Samia underwent several offering communal alternatives. Launched in partnership including parenting skills and psychological education with the Ministry of Social Development and UNICEF, the during its first four months, followed by monthly project promotes the healthy development of children interventions.
Impact
Up to monthly and semi annual follow up visits made to
Children27 were successfully integrated into foster 500 77 fostered children families weekly,
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Strengthening Case Management Success Stories Services and Empowerment in BREAKING THE SILENCE For Rana, a 36 year old Psychological interventions abuse she was subjected Syrian refugee, ending and counseling sessions to by her husband, and a the daily nightmare of recommended through new chapter in her life as a Host Community CBOs domestic abuse meant JRF offered Rana hope, an mother of three. only one thing: attempting opportunity to heal from the to take her own life. continuous violence and Amman, Karak, Ma`an
The project provides comprehensive case management violence against women, and empowers families and youth, support for Jordanians and Syrian refugees and Jordanian within a community based approach implemented by the COMING OF AGE
children and women in host communities; offering holistic Queen Rania Family and Child Center, in cooperation with Asmaa’s son, 10 years, disorders. Asmaa lacked the Asmaa frequented JRF’s services to promote a culture of child safety. Funded by the several community based organizations (CBOs). was forced into the dark necessary parenting skills QRFCC to empower her corners of child labor to to deal with her children, with key parenting skills. UNHCR and UNICEF, the project combats child abuse and provide for a family of 7. so she reverted to beating. Her husband received Dropping out of school The son and daughter psychological counseling and suffering the blows were later referred to the as well. Case management of his father’s physical UNICEF-funded Makani assistance contributed to abuse weighed him down. Project where they received the overall improvement of Her 13 year-old daughter key life skills training and Asmaa and her family. Impact suffered from sleeping informal education, while
Total number of women, youth 2114 and children beneficiaries 1558 140 186 Empowered 230Youth and adolescents Case management Psychosocial counselling Women empowered
Counseling satisfaction rates among Jordanians and Syrian refugees 95% 86% 92.5% 84.7% Women received Women received Adolescents received Families received individual counseling group counseling psychosocial counseling psychosocial counseling sessions sessions sessions sessions for their children
Adolescents participated in Sessions conducted adolescent empowerment Youth initiatives launched for 16 youth groups and completed 218 sessions 206 15
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Training to Success
The Training and Consultancy Division (TCD) supports JRF’s consulting, training external entities, and conducting nation- programs; serving as a capacity building and development wide studies commissioned by global organizations. Focus division within JRF offering internal support, as well as areas include:
Youth & Social Innovation Family & Child Protection
With a solid record of accomplishment driven by a rich Our programs are conceived and rolled out by a highly and cumulative experience in youth empowerment for specialized and experienced team of child and family safety local communities across Jordan, JRF’s Youth and Social trainers and consultants, with a solid local and regional track Innovation training programs are designed to empower record in the design and execution of interactive training individuals as social and entrepreneurial innovators and sessions based on JRF’s cumulative experience in the field advocates in their own communities. of child safety, through a series of programs addressing prevention, intervention and public awareness.
Community Empowerment Business and Entrepreneurship
Our model advocates active participation and positive JRF offers a wide variety of advisory and consultation contribution among community members, by leveraging services pertaining to business and entrepreneurship, based skills and knowledge required to improve efficiency and on the needs of individuals, communities, and organizations; best practices designed to sustain the livelihoods of local adopting the highest international standards of training and communities. This is delivered within a comprehensive capacity building. model that integrates social and economic development, in cooperation with community based organizations.
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Our Projects
Social Innovation Labs All Jordanian Governorates
Funded by UNICEF, the Social Innovation Labs project ways to serve their communities, as well as develop focuses on leveraging the creativity and 21st century skills their work readiness and employability skills through the of vulnerable Syrian and Jordanian children, adolescents development and application of innovative technology tools and youth. As a UNICEF partner organization, JRF equips and solutions. beneficiaries with tools that allow them to think of innovative
Impact 137 17,324 Community initiatives Beneficiaries of social developed and implemented innovation training curriculum by youth across several governorates
8174 Beneficiaries trained on social innovation curriculum
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Makani Success Stories Jerash, Ajloun, Irbid, Mafraq, Amman, OUT OF DARKNESS
Karak, Aqaba, Zarqa Lara’s epilepsy was closing by anxiety and fear, soon surroundings. Lara’s social in on her. The 12-year addressed through a life and belief in herself were old was on the verge of series of group activities finally reawakened following Funded by UNICEF, Makani is an all encompassing initiative regardless of their gender, ability, language, ethnicity, social and psychological including art therapy. months of daily interactive alienation when her parents The sessions boosted and rehabilitation sessions that targets community members of all ages, engaging religion or nationality. It also provides life skills training for were introduced to Makani. her self-esteem and the at Makani. them in activities that improve their social and emotional adolescents and youth to support civic engagement and Lara frequented the center way she approached her with hesitation, bounded medical condition in social well-being. Based on local community findings and needs social cohesion, as well as foster employability. Additionally, assessments, Makani offers well-coordinated, cost- Makani refers children in need to appropriate channels, effective, multi-sectoral services to vulnerable children, and provides information for parents and caregivers about creating a safe social interactive space to connect, children’s rights, protection, as well as preventing and learn and play within a healthy and clean environment. responding to gender-based violence. Makani ensures all children have equal access to services COMING OF AGE Jenan, 15 years, had management transformed serious temper issues. Jenan as she succeeded She didn’t expect much to channel her aggression from her visits to one of and empathize with her Makani’s centers at the peers through interactive beginning. But she soon programs designed to Impact realized she had to address help adolescents address her anger, before it took personal challenges and control over her life. Several anxieties. awareness sessions on key life skills and anger 38,966 22,349 16,617 Beneficiaries Jordanians Syrians
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Building Social Enterprises
JRF strives to create sustainable economic opportunities for culinary arts and handicrafts. These projects are particularly local community women and female refugees by capitalizing designed to leverage their employability and social skills, as on their potential as independent breadwinners within their well as their business acumen. JRF Social Enterprises are: families. There has been an immense interest from women • Jordan River Designs to participate in JRF’s social and economic empowerment • projects, especially in the fields of entrepreneurship, Al Karma Kitchen
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Our Projects Success Stories FROM THE ASHES
IKEA & Jordan River It was 2012 when Freeha professional courses, but ashes,” Freeha reflects. and her five children that didn’t help much. “Supporting a family of embarked on an arduous Family pressures mounted; six has never been easy, escape across their war- education, clothing, and but at least I have a career Designs torn hometown in Syria. an apartment rent pushed now I can rely on. One of Walking over her country’s her to the edge of despair. my daughters has been ash-covered streets, But several training courses awarded a scholarship to JRF has partnered with IKEA to integrate Syrian refugees and regionally. The first limited collection of handcrafted tramping side by side in in knitting and embroidery study civil engineering in rain and mud with her were enough to set her on and local community women through a series of exquisite textiles, titled TILLTALANDE, has been produced by 110 Turkey several years ago. family, heading to unknown the right track. I dream of the day when I handicraft collections capturing Jordan’s tradition and women artisans. The project aims to employ 400 by the territories, Freeha’s thoughts Freeha’s life took on color could attend her graduation. were already in Amman, heritage. The initiative will help sustain social and economic end of 2020. IKEA Jordan was the first store to launch the when she joined the JRF/ I hope it happens! Hope is the refuge she hoped to IKEA Project “This job what kept me alive all these stability across host communities, offering local women collection, to be followed later by several GCC countries assemble some kind of a saved my life! It took me years!” home in, and land a job that and Syrian refugees jobs to produce handmade carpets and stores in North Africa, the US and Europe. years to secure a steady would save her family from income, and I’ve never had and embroidery items, sold exclusively by IKEA, locally poverty. Freeha fended off health insurance or a social despair by throwing herself security account before! into selling homemade food, It was as if I rose from the after undergoing several
110 Employed400 women Women artisan beneficiaries by 2020
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Al Karma Kitchen
Established in 2006, Al Karma Kitchen offers a wide variety and vegetarian kubbeh, sambosak, musakhan rolls, and of freshly cooked foods, prepared by women in local shushbarak. communities. Products include traditional Arabic sweets, By 2018, the Kitchen will empower more than 30 women in spicy macaroons and frozen foods. The kitchen hires line with JRF’s aim to increase production volume, which in highly skilled Jordanian female chefs and provides unique turn would support the livelihoods of more women across economic opportunities in East Amman. Eastern Amman. Al Karma Kitchen has empowered 15 women during 2017 to launch a new line of frozen foods, including meat
Empowered15 women Empowered30 Women
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Partners & Donors
JRF is extremely proud of its partnerships with local and and act proactively to cement new partnerships with international entities, and continuously works towards organizations that share our objectives in social and cultivating these relationships, while exploring new economic development in Jordan. opportunities for collaboration. We continue to evolve
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Corporate Institutional Donors Donors
Regional Development Ministry of Social Royal and Protection Pro- Development Arab Bank UNICEF UNHCR European Union Hashemite Court gramme (RDPP)
Arab Potash UNDP UNESCO JEDCO IFAD Mercy Corps OCHA Company Zain
Commercial Office of ASEZA (Aqaba Special Danish the Republic of China Economic Zone Au- Global Communities FHI 360 USAID Refugee Council (Taiwan) thority)
Housing Bank for Societe Generale De National Commercial Bank Dar Al Handasah Trade and Finance Banque- Jordanie
EIN HERZ FÜR KINDER World Vision Family for AFC Consultants Inter- foundation Citi Foundation International Every Child national
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JordanRiverFoundation www.jordanriverdesigns.com
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