Discussion Paper 25: Examining Barriers to Workforce Inclusion of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

When Syria's conflict entered the sixth year, Jordan hosted 7 million refugees and continued the burden of disproportionate refugees because it became the second largest refugee-accepting country for all residents of the world It was. Jordan opened the door to more than 650,000 Syrian refugees; the majority - about 79% - live outdoors and face an unstable living environment

In relation to this, the Jordan Compact is aimed at developing a roadmap to achieve the long-term resilience of Jordanian and Syrian refugees by shifting focus from short-term aid to job creation, growth, to Syria Respond to the refugee crisis and invest

This report focuses on Jordan Compact's livelihood and provides timely analysis of the new realization environment created by the revised trade agreement between Jordan and the European Union. The Jordan Compact assumes a strong investment environment, but our main focus is to investigate the obstacles Syrian refugees face in seeking labor permission and sustainable living in Jordan. For this purpose, this report analyzes specific barriers to restrict formal employment of Syrian refugees in development areas, especially in export industries.

In this survey, we focused on refugee's perspective as an analysis and revealed important proposals on meaningful strategies for increasing Syrian refugees' formal participation in the Jordanian labor market. In addition to identifying ways in which Syrian refugees can obtain a formal job in Jordan, the most important thing is that they can do decent jobs to ensure sustainable living, and above all else their dignity You have access to the opportunity.

To understand why progress has been delayed, we conducted a live survey on the obstacles faced by Syrian refugees when they entered Jordan's labor market. Our new report, 'Solving the Employment of Refugees in Jordan' reveals these obstacles, reveals the network of complex subjects confronted by refugees, and impairs a series of common myths. Fourth, there are lots of material barriers. I heard from male and female refugees that childcare expenses and transportation expenses are a big obstacle to accessing employment opportunities. In addition to the cost, the fear of being away from home too far in an emergency will even make me hesitate to go to work with some refugees.

Jordan - As of June 2015, Jordan had 628,427 registered Syrian refugees. However, the Jordanian census conducted in November 2015 showed that 1.4 million Syrian refugees live in this country. This means that more than 50% of Jordanian Syrian refugees are not registered. According to the World Bank report of 2016, the inflow of Syrian refugees to Jordan spends more than $ 2.5 billion annually, about 6% of Jordan's gross domestic product, or about a quarter of the government's annual income . Dedicated international aid has been reduced by hundreds of millions of dollars of total cost. As a result, the state's public debt in 2016 has expanded to 95% of the gross domestic product, and economic growth has drastically weakened. Because most of Jordanian refugees live in local communities, not refugee camps, especially in the northern Jordan town near the Syrian border, we are placing great pressure on infrastructure.