Project profile — Education for Jordan's Prosperity II

The Education for Jordan Prosperity - Phase II (E4JP-2) project aims to further support Jordan, enabling access to quality education for all while strengthening its education systems. This project benefits approximately 1.6 million children across the country’s 4,060 schools, including 152,000 refugee children. Specifically, the E4JP-2 aims to build upon the education sector strengthening work of the E4JP phase l ($75M, 2017/18-2023). Project activities include: (1) consolidating development gains and results over the life of the programme, (2) targeting final capacity building for the Ministry of Education (MoE) in preparation for complete programme handover by 2026, and (3) expanding the programme to include on-budget support to the MoE, helping to meet its refugee student-related costs.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) strengthened MoE systems, the skills and resources of staff in developing, planning, and implementing policy and programmes; (2) enhanced education quality at all levels of the education system, including vocational education; and (3) helping more refugees and children with disabilities get a good education.

Results achieved as of February 2025 include: (1) improved equitable provision of quality, gender-responsive, and environmentally sustainable public education. Provided financial support to 4,060 public schools and 42 field directorates to implement their school improvement plans. These plans helped them to enhance learning environments through teacher professional development, minor school maintenance, procurement of learning supplies and school community engagement; (2) strengthened evidence-based policy-making, planning, and management by the Ministry of Education. This includes the launch of the Jordan’s first Education Sector Analysis and is nearing completion. This comprehensive analysis is instrumental as it serves as an evidence-based tool to guide future educational policies and interventions in the country in Jordan. 4 thematic working groups are activated to support policy dialogue and coordination among partners and with the Ministry in key areas; (3) expanded access to inclusive and equitable quality education for marginalized children. This resulted in a total of 155,779 Syrian refugee students (51.3% girls) and 3,111 non-Syrian refugee students enrolled in schools, and tuition and textbooks provided for all of them. This represents an increase of about 8,500 more refugee students. Also strengthened inclusive education for students with disabilities, with 5,183 students (2,265 boys and 2,918 girls) enrolled in public schools. This is an addition of 731 students compared to the previous year.