Adolescent well-being in Jordan: exploring gendered capabilities, contexts and change strategies
This report synthesises findings about adolescent girls바카라 사이트™ and boys바카라 사이트™ capabilities across 6 themes
Abstract
Situated at the crossroads of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Jordan has a long history of hosting the region바카라 사이트™s refugees. Beginning with Palestine refugees in 1948, followed by Iraqi refugees in the 1990s and, since 2011, accepting hundreds of thousands of Syrians fleeing both drought and civil war, it is estimated that of Jordan바카라 사이트™s approximately 10 million inhabitants, 1 in 3 is a refugee. Of those, more than 2 million are Palestinian (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), 2019b), just over 660,000 are Syrian, and nearly 100,000 are from Iraq, Yemen and Sudan (UNHCR, 2019). While the country is ranked 바카라 사이트˜high바카라 사이트™ in terms of human development (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2019), Jordan has faced significant economic and social challenges in seeking to absorb its large refugee population. Drawing on GAGE바카라 사이트™s mixed-methods research in Jordan, this report synthesises findings about adolescent girls바카라 사이트™ and boys바카라 사이트™ capabilities across 6 key domains:
- education and learning
- health, nutrition, and sexual and reproductive health (SRH)
- bodily integrity and freedom from violence
- psychosocial well-being
- voice and agency
- economic empowerment.
It concludes with policy and programming implications viewed through a multidimensional capability lens.
GAGE is working in 5 governorates in Jordan 바카라 사이트“ Amman, Mafraq, Irbid, Zarqa and Jerash 바카라 사이트“ where most of the Syrian refugee population live. In order to explore the complexity of adolescent realities in refugee and host communities, we spread our sample across 3 very different contexts: host communities, informal tented settlements (ITSs), and United Nations (UN) refugee camps.
This report is an output of the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme
Citation
Jones, N., Baird, S., Presler-Marshall, E., Malachoswka, A., Kilburn, K., Abu Hamad, B., Essaid, A., Amaireh, W., Sajdi, J., Banioweda, K., Alabbadi, T., Alheiwidi, S., Ashareef, Q., Altal, S., Kharabsheh, W., Abu Taleb, H., Abu Azzam, M. and Abu Hammad, B. (2019) Adolescent well-being in Jordan: exploring gendered capabilities, contexts and change strategies. A synthesis report on GAGE Jordan baseline findings. London: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence.