UNICEF
Amman Country Office
PO BOX 1551
11 821 Amman, Jordan
Tel: (962-6) 550 2400
Fax: (962-6) 553 1112
Activity Title:
Promoting Opportunities for Adolescents in Jordan with a Focus on Girls.
Date:
May 2000 - April 2003
Objectives/Goals:
The project has an overall objective to create public awareness and commitment to adolescents’ development. The Project also aims to:
1. Ensure that Jordan has an accessible & sustainable national knowledge base on the situation of adolescent and young girls and boys aged (10-24) in Jordan.
2. Ensure youth participation in the relevant issues pertaining to the Higher Council for Youth (HCY) and Ministry of Education (MOE).
3. Support capacity building, of 6000 youth workers in leadership, in participatory involvement and in gender.
4. Empower 9000 adolescents (60% girls) with basic life skills.
5. Increase the percentage of women aged (20-24) who are self-employed and actively seeking employment in the labour force by 20%.
6. To contribute to the prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission and of tobacco use among adolescents.
Support:
UNICEF provided technical and financial support to concerned ministries, NGOs and the Department of Statistics, in addition to two resource and training centers.
Brief:
The Project has addressed most of the items on the Braga Action Plan, particularly to emphasizing the right of participation with focus on girls, such as:
1. Empowering 9000 adolescents, 60% girls, with basic life skills;
2. Providing capacity building to 6000 service providers on participatory planning and management of adolescents’ development, in a process of institutional development involving a number of NGOs, the Higher Council for Youth, Ministries of Education, Health and Social Development;
3. Ensuring that data analysis and survey results are based on a developed national strategy.
Fields of Implementation:
1. Education
2. Employment
3. Health
4. Juvenile delinquency
5. Human rights
6. Young women
7. Capacity building
10. Other: Children’s Right to participation, research, advocacy and policy development.
Activity Title 2:
Other youth related studies and surveys supported by UNICEF, Amman Country Office.
Brief:
1. Review of youth centers (2001);
2. National youth survey entitled “Jordanian Youth: their lives and views” (2002);
3. Anemia among young women of childbearing age (is being finalized);
4. Evaluation of the adolescents programs (2003);
5. The determinants of risk factors among adolescents (2003).
