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“Education is the light at the end of this dark tunnel.”
Najma, 40, is a mother of ten children. The family fled Syria in 2013, leaving their home in Homs and arriving in Za’atari refugee camp in the north of Jordan. “Camp life was not suitable for my family,” said Najma. “We came to live in this village near the camp where life is cheaper than in the cities.” Eight out...
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Supporting Vulnerable Children’s School Participation and Wellbeing: UNICEF’s Hajati Cash Transfer P
The primary objective of this report was to assess whether the cash assistance provided by UNICEF’s Hajati cash transfer programme to its beneficiaries was effective in supporting the intended aim of increasing school enrolment, attendance and retention of children from vulnerable families, along with potential re...
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The Difference a Dollar a Day Makes
The report entails the benefits of Hajati programme and documents its lessons learned The report highlights the benefits of reliable and continuous cash support It discusses potential ways to enhance the consistency of humanitarian cash support, including integrating emergency cash programming into national social...
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How to Maximise the Impact of Cash Transfers for Vulnerable Adolescents in Jordan
UNICEF commissioned ODI to investigate how to tailor better the Hajati labelled cash for the education programme and its synergies with the Makani child and adolescent one-stop centres so as to promote improved educational outcomes for vulnerable refugee and host community adolescents. Key Objectives of the report...
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Study: UNICEF cash transfer programme helps the most vulnerable children access education
AMMAN, JORDAN,, 29 June, 2021, — UNICEF’s cash transfer programme has played a key role in helping children access education, suggests a new study released today on maximizing the impact of cash transfers for vulnerable adolescents in Jordan. The study [1] found higher school enrolment rates amongst vulnerable J...
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Hajati Baseline Report for 2017-18
Starting from the 2017-18 school year, UNICEF Jordan’s Child Cash Grant launched its new phase, an equity-driven, integrated social protection programme for all children in Jordan, regardless of nationality, called Hajati , or ‘My Need’ in Arabic. For the 2017-18 school year, UNICEF’s Hajati Cash Transfer Programm...
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The Difference a Dollar a Day Can Make
This report describes how children benefit from Hajati and documents the lessons learned during Hajati’s design and implementation. It gives an overview of the research findings, highlighting the benefits of reliable and continuous cash support.1 It discusses potential ways to enhance the consistency of humanitari...
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National Aid Fund Cash Transfer Pilot
The report analyses the beneficiaries’ perception of how much the cash assistance contributed towards covering the household’s basic needs (education, health, food, housing and winterization) and how it prevented the use of negative coping mechanisms (withdrawing children from school, child begging, child labour),...
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Hajati cash assistance effective at keeping vulnerable children in school
AMMAN, 26 June 2019:, UNICEF’s Hajati cash assistance is effective at keeping the most vulnerable children in Jordan in school and preventing drop out, a new study has shown., The programme supported 10,000 children in the 2018-19 academic year. Hajati is an unconditional cash transfer for some of the most vulnerable families in Jordan whose children are registered in double shift schools. The programme is accessible to all children, irrespective...
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My needs, our future
In September 2017, UNICEF Jordan integrated its child cash grant programme within a larger package of social protection services. The Hajati ”My Needs" programme aimed to cover the most vulnerable children in 205 Double Shift Schools; The grant sought to reduce vulnerable families’ reliance on coping strategies su...