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JCO as part of the new approved SN 2023-2027 have revised the programme ToC reflecting the humanitarian-development nexus. An oasis redesign process is also underway in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development with a specific lens on long-term sustainable change. This redesign will allow for a progressive transition to national implementation and a development model for the Oasis model particularly in in Host Communities. |
JCO |
2023/12
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Completed
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JCO as part of the new approved SN 2023-2027 have revised the programme ToC reflecting the humanitarian-development nexus. An oasis redesign process has also been conducted with a specific lens on long-term sustainable change. This redesign will allow for a progressive transition to national implementation for the Oasis model particularly in in Host Communities. |
As direct implementation of OASIS is an administratively heavy endeavor, UN Women to consider transitioning programme implementation to partners or service providers. UN Women to focus instead on providing strong implementation oversight, technical support and quality assurance, strengthening coordination with other UN entities and playing a more strategic role to facilitate gender and social transformative changes such as by ensuring women’s voice and representation on issues related to the right to work for refugee women, conflict prevention and peace building. |
JCO |
2024/06
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Completed
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UN Women launched a call for proposal to engage with a programme partner for the implementation of the Oasis model in camp setting. A partner was selected and endorsed by the GPAC by end of 2023. Due to the long process of receiving approval from the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, the signature of the agreement was delayed. However, in November 2024, the agreement with the selected partner (ACTED) was signed. The handover process will now begin and UN Women’s role in the camps will shift from direct implementation to more oversight, technical support and quality assurance. |
Ensure that the programme transition is conducted in a manner that is accountable to beneficiaries and is sensitive to the fragile context causing minimal disruption. |
JCO |
2024/03
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Completed
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The redesign of the JCO humanitarian program is being approached with a focus on accountability to beneficiaries and sensitivity to the fragile context, ensuring minimal disruption. A participatory process is being employed, which includes consultations with relevant beneficiaries and coordination with the Ministry of Social Development (MoSD) for the HCs. Joint messaging will be developed in collaboration with MoSD to communicate any changes within the program while adhering to the Accountability to Affected Population principles.
In late 2023, a redesign consultant was recruited to support the process, conducting consultations with MoSD staff, donors, and UN Women personnel. Based on these consultations, the consultant developed new program materials with updated implementation models. Additionally, a needs assessment on the capacities of the MoSD center managers was conducted to inform these implementation models. These models were presented to MoSD center managers and representatives, with a collaborative workshop planned for late November 2024 to discuss different scenarios for the new Oasis model. In the ongoing redesign process, UN Women, in partnership with MoSD, will assess MoSD's institutional capacity to adopt and effectively implement the revised Oasis program model. Additionally, UN Women will conduct a needs assessment around each center to understand the context-specific needs for each governorate we are operating in. |
Specific attention to be paid to the following components of cash-for-work:
• Work systematically to break occupational gender segregation.
• Ensure that the goods and services produced provide a social good and fulfil market needs, making a contribution to the real economy.
• Link cash-for-work activities to producing or delivering shared social goods, i.e. producing goods for government (school uniforms, blankets, baby kits, healthy school meals) or running social services such as legal aid clinics. In camp settings, activities should be linked to internal camp service delivery and humanitarian procurement chains (WFP buying healthy meals from UN Women cash-for-work beneficiaries).
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JCO |
2024/12
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Completed
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JCO continues to ensure that the cash-for-work activities are linked to producing and delivering shared social goods, such as the baby kits and school uniforms that benefit the larger community. As part of the Oasis redesign process, and with the support of the technical consultant hired, JCO is exploring the occupations that are relevant to the market but also acceptable by women and society. It is important to note that most of the women engaged in the program have never been employed or active economically before and that for them being engaged in any type of work, is actually gender transformative. Similarly many beneficiaries indicate that they are interested in skills which would allow them to work from home through micro-entrepreneurships projects. A stronger component on entrepreneurship was therefore added to the content of the program and a new partnership has been established with the local organization Education for Employment, which prioritizes MSME and job placement training, as well as mentorship support and significant follow up with the participants to ensure their access to income-generating opportunities following their participation in the programme. The JCO has also ensured that some new, strongly gender segregated, occupations such a security guards in the camps are now open for women. |
Ensure the programme monitoring framework and system includes and systematically measures outcome and impact-level results. Separate the monitoring function from programme management to ensure data independence. Allocate adequate financial and human resources for monitoring. |
JCO |
2024/03
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Completed
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Efforts have been made to strengthen the M&E under each programme through adding new dedicated M&E human capacity to the program teams. This is coupled with the oversight, guidance and technical support provided by the M&E Analyst to ensure data independence.
JCO has revised the project appraisal workflow to ensure all projects and partners’ projects results frameworks are reviewed by the M&E analyst who has been assigned as a member of the Local project appraisal committee. The office has also reviewed the donor reporting workflow ensuring close oversight from the Deputy Country Representative and the M&E analyst to ensure reporting at outcome level is strengthened. Indicators under the JONAP and Oasis programmes have been revised to ensure they capture the change that the programmes intend to achieve.
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Strengthen the Ending Violence Against Women and protection component of the programme, focusing on social norms change and by adopting a socio-ecological model working with men, boys, families and institutions. |
JCO |
2024/03
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Completed
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A new social norms programme will be implemented in Jordan for 2 years under a regional proramme. The objective of the programme is to enhance men’s role in care work to support women’s labor force participation and reduce violence against women. The JCO has also strengthened its programming on EVAW as follows:
On prevention, UN Women works with governmental and non-governmental organizations to ensure commitment for addressing violence against women, as an example; UN Women is supporting the independent election commission in developing a localized definition of violence against women in politics and drafting procedures to mitigate it in the upcoming elections. UN Women also engages with men and boys to change social perceptions around violence and reduce its acceptance within camps and host communities.
On the response, UN Women intervenes at two levels:
1) Ensuring that quality services are in place through building the capacities of service providers from security sector agencies and non-governmental organizations to deliver survivor centered essential services against violence in line with global standards. Examples include enhancing capacities of the family protection department within the public security directorate but also the collaboration with the Jordanian Women Union for service delivery, with focus on the southern region.
2) Ensuring that women and girls (end users) are equipped with knowledge, skills, and confidence to report VAW and to exercise their rights to quality services, with particular focus on poverty pocket areas, targeting Jordanian vulnerable women and Syrian refugees in camps and host communities.
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Review existing complaints and grievance redressal procedures to align them with established good practices. Revise the complaints hotline process to increase transparency, gender sensitivity and accountability as per standard good practices.
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JCO |
2023/12
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Completed
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In January 2023, an AAP focal point was recruited with direct reporting lines to the Country Representative. The AAP focal points was assigned the task to manage the grievance and feedback mechanisms and to report on weekly basis to the representative the status of complaints and issues received. Cases are kept in confidential records with regular analysis. The JCO has developed SOPs for AAP taking into consideration programmes directly implemented and those implemented through responsible parties. The SOPs include clear guidance on the actions to be taken by category of complaints classified by severity level. |
Develop a knowledge and evidence strategy for OASIS to systematically capture lessons and for course correction, including thematic lessons on gender transformative humanitarian development nexus interventions. |
JCO |
2024/12
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Completed
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With the support and guidance of RO, JCO has adopted an enhanced approach to measuring change in the lives of women and girls, known as the "One Monitoring Approach." As part of this, baseline and endline data collection tools have been refined and integrated into the regional Track-It dashboard, ensuring that program impact is effectively captured and presented. A knowledge management strategy is also in development, with plans to finalize it soon, to facilitate the broad sharing of lessons learned. Additionally, the Oasis program is in the final stages of creating a comprehensive Communications Plan, designed to capture and share impact stories from beneficiaries with all stakeholders. |