WFP Building Blocks — Iris-Scan Blockchain Cash Assistance for Refugees in Jordan
Since 2017, WFP's Building Blocks has let Syrian refugees in Jordan's Azraq camp pay for food with an iris scan instead of …
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Since 2017, WFP's Building Blocks has let Syrian refugees in Jordan's Azraq camp pay for food with an iris scan instead of …
World Bank-funded ($200M) programme that trained 10,591 youth in digital skills and delivered digital curricula to 402,757 school students, while improving 200 …
Jordan's ISSF mobilised $108.97m in private capital alongside $98m in World Bank and Central Bank financing, backing ~160 startups and 22 investment …
UN Women's Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Jordan Network grew from 50 signatory companies in 2021 to 256 by 2025, covering 100,000+ employees; …
An NGO's Talent Catalog matches displaced, skilled professionals in Jordan and Lebanon to ordinary skilled-worker visas abroad; a 2026 pre-registered study of …
Jordan's largest microfinance institution, Microfund for Women (MFW), has since 1994 extended 1.2 million loans worth USD 827 million across 60 branches …
Founded in Amman in 2010, Oasis500 is one of the MENA region's first early-stage accelerators. By 2026 it had backed 193 startups, …
Since 2018, UNHCR Jordan and Learning Equality, funded by Google.org, have run 10 offline Kolibri e-learning hubs — three inside the Zaatari …
Two competition-winning mobile games — Antura and the Letters and Feed the Monster — delivered a 27-hour literacy programme to Syrian refugee …
War Child Holland's tablet-based Can't Wait to Learn uses a Stanford-co-developed ML layer to detect when a child is academically "stuck" and …
Jordan's pioneering seed accelerator has invested in 193 startups since 2010, helping them raise $135M+ in follow-on funding and create nearly 5,000 …
After a 2019 audit of Jordan's national portal found 325 accessibility problems and 1,535 unresolved warnings, ministry MoDEE issued Government Websites Guidelines …
Jordan's Ministry of Finance and National Commission for Women, with UN Women and a €151.5m AFD-financed programme (2022-2025), wrote gender-responsive budgeting into …
Jordan's largest wastewater plant treats ~70% of the country's sewage and discharges 133 million m³/year of high-quality effluent into the Zarqa River, …
Since 2016, WFP's Building Blocks lets Syrian refugees in Jordan pay for food with an iris scan matched to their existing UNHCR …
Jordan's Digital Economy Ministry, with Japan's JICA and Amman-based Eqra Tech, used AI to repair national-ID links on 2M+ 1985–2004 exam records …
Jordan's Ministry of Education piloted Siraj, a source-citing generative-AI assistant, reaching 16,000+ teachers who used it to prep lessons and explain concepts, …
Jordan revived the ancient Hima communal rangeland system at Bani Hashem in the Zarqa River Basin, using rotational grazing exclusion to nearly …
A tablet-based telehealth pilot let Jordan's community rehab workers hold video consultations for refugees with disabilities, alongside 3D-printed prosthetics and hearing devices …
Since 2011, Jordan's National Steering Committee for Pay Equity, co-chaired by the National Commission for Women and Ministry of Labour with ILO …
The 2016 EU-Jordan Compact tied trade preferences to Syrian refugee jobs, but only 5% of garment-sector work permits went to women. ILO …
Backed by a $1M Bloomberg Philanthropies award (2021, chosen from 630 cities) and UNDP, Greater Amman Municipality launched a trial AI-assisted feedback …
Miyahuna, Jordan's state water utility, is running a $24m USAID-backed AI platform integrating SCADA, smart meters and GIS in Amman to fight …
Jordan's Queen Rania Foundation built Iqrali, an AI app generating personalised Arabic children's stories, countering a baseline where under 1% of parents …
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