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by the Syrian crisis. Therefore many of those challenges remain and these components were
brought forward through the next educational strategy document for 2016-2025, the National
Strategy for Human Resource Development plan (NSHRD or simply HRD)521. Aligned with the
Jordan 2025 Vision, the HRD inputted the evaluation of the ERfKE and the implementation has
been taken into account from the start by defining who will have ownership of the various sets of
projects, the sequencing and the practical activities and the resources required.
Program Governance. General overview will be carried out with an HRD Reform Board and an
independent HRD Results and Effectiveness Unit will act as watch-dog of the entire reform. An
Executive HRD Working Group Committee, comprising ministers and heads of implementing
agencies, will coordinate the delivery of the HRD strategy. Phase 1 will work on short-term
changes i.e. pending and agreed projects and establishing the pre-requisites for further changes.
Phase 2 will implement new initiatives and Phase 3 will roll-out system-wide reforms. Although
this is a 10-year strategy, most of the major elements of the HRD will be implemented within the
first 6 years, with the last 4 mostly concerned with benefits realisation.
The next sections will cover selected education policies and programs aimed at dealing with the
refugee crisis, supporting the demand for education as well as improving the supply and quality
of education in Jordan.
Response to the Syria Crisis
As a response to the Syria crisis, Jordan prepared a National Resilience Plan (NRP) in 2014
focusing mainly on the hosting communities. At the end of 2014, the Jordan Response Platform
for the Syria Crisis (JRPSC) was created to oversee the JRP 2015 and JRP 2016 which bridged the
short-term refugee response with the longer-term developmental response to the crisis522. The
JRP 2017–19523 seeks to address the needs and vulnerabilities of Syrian refugees and Jordanian
people, communities and institutions affected by the crisis. The JRP is also involved in planning
and coordination tools for the international organizations’ and NGOs response to the crisis on
Jordanian land. Any new project needs to be submitted for approval to the government which
will gauge it against the JRP framework and components, thus limiting the duplication of efforts,
amplifying synergies and aligning the international organizations and NGOs objectives with the
long term strategic plans of the government. In order to ensure that vulnerable Jordanians are
not left out, the government instituted a rule whereby unless they are inside a refugee camp, all
projects aimed at providing assistance to refugees should also benefit the hosting community
and at least 30% of beneficiaries should be Jordanians.
The education component of the JRP focuses on access, quality of school and increasing the
government’s capacity to plan and deliver education for all given the extra pressures brought on
521 CHRD (2016)
522 MPIC (2016)
523 MPIC (2017)