Policy Briefs
The Importance of the Transformative Angle for Advancing the Social Protection Agenda in Jordan
No.
PB 90
Publisher
ERF
Date
September, 2022
Topic
H5. National Government Expenditures and Related Policies
I3. Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
In a nutshell
- The publication of the National Social Protection Strategy (JNSPS) 2019-2025 (JNSPS, 2019), marked an important juncture in the evolution of Jordan’s social protection sector, with an emphasis on improved targeting, strengthened institutional capacity, and enhanced coordination.
- The Mapping of social protection programmes discussed in this brief highlights that programmes are mainly reactive in nature, and an overarching harmonization is still missing.
- A proper understanding of the social protection landscape in Jordan helps to uncover the potential for the further development and implementation of the existing social protection agenda, while focusing on the transformative implementation of the agenda.
- Transformative social protection can be best grasped as a conceptualization which looks at social protection as a process, whose goal is to promote sustainable social justice for the most vulnerable groups, improve social equity, build sustainable social institutions and prevent the that achieved impacts on poverty and vulnerability remain scattered.
- In moving forward, Jordan does not need to start from scratch. It has an established and long history of producing visions, strategies, plans and policies. Transformative social protection policies and programmes in Jordan should incorporate both development and humanitarian objectives. This will reduce benefit dependency, and it will preserve and augment the human capital of citizens so they can contribute to economic growth while reducing the need for fiscal outlays.
Policy Affiliates
Mary Kawar
Former Minister for Planning, Jordan
Research Fellows
Zina S. Nimeh
Associate Professor of Public Policy, United Nations...
Speakers
Tamara A. Kool
Researcher, Verwey-Jonker Instituut