Day: March 8, 2024

Amman: For the second year in a row, the Jordan River Foundation (JRF) and the Aqaba Governorate Council (AGC) have signed a collaboration agreement to promote trainings in women’s and youth empowerment throughout the southern port city.

Under the foundation’s Community Empowerment Program, the agreement signed by AGC Chair Emad Amro and JRF Director General Enaam Barrishi paves the way for interventions aimed at enhancing the capacity of women and youth. These interventions include self-development, entrepreneurship, psycho-social support, financial literacy, and workforce readiness.

Through the partnership, JRF will be able to reach recipients throughout the southern governorate. Through grants and the development of their project management, web marketing, and financial literacy abilities, it seeks to empower women and young people on both a social and economic level.

The project will promote the establishment of enterprises and also provide networking possibilities for product marketing. The project al
so intends to improve the handicraft abilities of fifty women, so advancing their professional and personal growth.

Additionally, the initiative will provide learning support services and increase the inventive capacities of one thousand male and female students in Aqaba. The project intends to take the knowledge gained from the social innovation lab to isolated villages in the Aqaba region, thereby expanding its influence to underprivileged populations in far-off places.

Activities include giving young people tools for social innovation and entrepreneurship as well as improving their robotics and artificial intelligence skills. The project’s goal is to foster a society that honors and reveres innovators and inventors.

The project has funded sixteen women-led business, services, and tourist enterprises in the last year.For 87 women, it offered a variety of training courses in content production, project management, and self-empowerment.

Over 1400 children and teenagers profited from the center’s child saf
ety initiatives during the three project-related open days that JRF organized. Furthermore, ten Aqaba-based community volunteers received social innovation training and empowerment, and they went on to mentor over 2100 kids via the center’s mobile social innovation station.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: The Jordan Armed Forces- Arab Army carried out nine airdrops on northern Gaza Strip, Friday, in accordance with Royal directives.

The targets of the airdrops are various locations in the northern Gaza Strip. This action was taken in response to the humanitarian duty and as part of the ongoing efforts of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to support the steadfastness of the Palestinian brothers and lessen the size of the repercussions of the Israeli war on Gaza Strip.

The operation involved the participation of four C130 aircraft from the Royal Jordanian Air Force, one aircraft from the Arab Republic of Egypt, one aircraft from the United States of America, one aircraft from the Republic of France, one aircraft from the Netherlands, and one aircraft from the Kingdom of Belgium.

This action is part of Jordan’s continuous efforts to provide families in the Gaza Strip with food, medical care, and humanitarian supplies. With the intention of lessening the consequences of the conflict and making up for the a
cute scarcity of food and medication brought on by Israel’s ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Whether by aid flights from Marka Airport towards El-Arish International Airport, airdrops on the Gaza Strip, or land aid convoys, the JAF reaffirms that it is still sending aid via an air bridge to supply humanitarian and medical supplies.

The JAF has conducted 33 airdrops since the start of the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip. An additional 28 airdrops were conducted by the Armed Forces in collaboration with friendly and fraternal nations.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: The percentage of women in Jordan employed in the information and communications technology industry is 33 percent; in contrast, the percentage for administrative roles was 4 percent, according to the Information and Technology Association of Jordan (int@j).

According to the primary data for 2023, the proportion of women working in technical jobs was 16 percent, and 30 percent of them were founders or members of the executive teams of startup businesses, int@j said in a statement on the occasion of the International Women’s Day.

Nidal Al-Bitar, the CEO of the “Intaj” Association, emphasized the importance of the “SHETECHS” Initiative Council, which was established to improve collaboration between the public and private sectors, as well as between academic institutions and civil society organizations, in order to boost women’s representation in the workforce and aid in the shift to a digital economy.

In addition to highlighting the critical role that women play in driving digital transformation and a
dvancing the field of information and communications technology, he emphasized the necessity of ongoing initiatives to empower and support women working in this industry.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: During his official visit to the UK, Speaker of the Senate Faisal Al-Fayez met separately with the Jordan Group in the British Parliament, the Council of Arab Ambassadors in London, and the Minister of State for Middle Eastern Affairs, Lord Tariq Ahmed, to discuss the state of affairs in the region. The Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, as well as methods to improve ties between Jordan and the United Kingdom in a number of areas.

Senators Alia Bouran, Nasser Judeh, Mazen Darwazeh, and the Jordanian ambassador to the UK, Manar Al-Dabbas, were present when Al-Fayez discussed the difficulties facing Jordan, the need to halt Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip, and the value of advancing and fortifying ties between the two countries in a number of areas.

Al-Fayez said that Jordan is a strong nation in terms of politics and security, but because of Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip and the presence of 1.3 million Syrian refugees, it is facing economic difficulties. The amount of foreign support for t
he response strategy Jordan and its allies devised for the Syrian crisis no longer surpasses 21 percent of the expenses incurred in meeting the needs of the refugees.

Al-Fayez expressed gratitude to the United Kingdom for its support of Jordan’s economic development initiatives and urged British lawmakers to advocate for increased aid to Jordan and to monitor the results of the donor conference that the United Kingdom hosted in 2019. With the intention of giving Jordan an economic package that will help it deal with the Syrian refugee crisis.

He said that in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel has been committing war crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing, famine, and destruction against the Palestinian people. His Majesty King Abdullah II is working tirelessly to put an end to this aggression and to expose the truth about these atrocities.

In the meetings, he went on to say that the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital in accordance with the two-state solution
is the only way to bring an end to the conflicts in the region and allow people to live in peace. He implied that there is no other way to provide security or stability for Israel or anyone else.

As a translation of His Majesty King Abdullah II’s aspirations, Al-Fayez reviewed Jordan’s comprehensive reform process during the discussions. The process aims to increase public participation, empower women and youth, reach programmatic partisan parliamentary governments, and create an environment that is both stimulating and attractive for investment.

The British Parliament’s Jordan Committee Chairman and its members, for their part, expressed delight in Jordanian-British relations in a number of areas, including continuing parliamentary exchanges and a wish to deepen them.

The committee also acknowledged Jordan’s crucial role in addressing regional issues and ensuring peace and security in the area, led by His Majesty King Abdullah II.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Yesterday, Wednesday, the Governor of the Central Bank, Al-Siddiq Omar Al-Kabir, held a meeting in his office with a number of members of the House of Representatives and advisors to the Central Bank, to discuss a number of banking and financial issues.

The Central Bank said in a statement that the meeting, which was attended by Marai Al-Barassi, Deputy Governor, the Chairman and members of the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives, and some advisors at the Central Bank of Libya, dealt with following up on the stages of preparing the unified budget law for the year 2024, the rise in the exchange rate in the parallel market, and the smuggling of food commodities and others for neighboring countries, rationalization of spending and the effects of currency of unknown origin on national security.

The meeting also discussed the uses of foreign exchange for various commercial and personal purposes, and the public sector in light of the expected revenue indicators during the year 2024, in addition to
discussing the proposal of the Central Bank of Libya to impose a fee on the exchange rate to control the parallel market and agree on the procedures presented in this regard. .

Source: Libyan News Agency

Amman: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates recalled the contributions made by female diplomats and ministry staff from Jordan, who skillfully represented their country in all international forums.

The ministry said, in a statement on Friday in honor of International Women’s Day, that women’s accomplishments and valuable contributions to the advancement of Jordanian diplomacy are deserving of recognition. We applaud their innovation in fostering growth and success, emphasizing the importance of Jordanian women in diplomacy, and recognizing their excellence as well as their contributions to and accomplishments in Jordanian foreign policy.

Source: Jordan News Agency