WFP: At the Berm, Save the Children International has been entered into partnership as Cooperating Partner (CP) to implement the food assistance distribution at Rukban and Hadalat.

The UNHCR’s Award for Team Achievements in Gender Integration goes to the dedicated work in increasing the attention to the needs of women, girls, boys and men in the development of refugee programming in Jordan. The Jordan Refugee Inter-Sector Working Group has set up a cross-sectoral network called the Sector Gender Focal Point Network focusing on the promotion of gender equality. They developed a tool to monitor Gender Equality Measures in humanitarian projects within a pilot project.

UNHCR welcomes the announcement from the GoJ regarding the waiving of fees for Syrian refugees for annual work permits in the coming 3 months (until the 4th of July).

USAID has launched new five-year, $50 million Health Service Delivery Flagship to expand the capacity of the health system. The goal is to improve access to quality services through expanding health networks; promoting the integration of key reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions; and fostering community ownership to increase health facility accountability

- JICA launches 2 years project for improvement of services at village health Centers (VHCs) in rural host communities. Project activities include training, development of Manual procedure, community health committees and one mobile clinic in Irbid, Mafraq and Balqa

WVI has granted from World Vision Taiwan fund for a school feeding programme in Azraq Camp from 1 April - 30 September 2016.It’s on going programme but with new fund from World Vision Taiwan to cover the period from (1 April - 30 September 2016)

• WFP rolled out the iris-scan payment system in Azraq camp during the month of April. The pilot operations are now running successfully in KAP and Azraq camp. During April, WFP reached 2,997 households (14,020 individuals) through the iris-scan payment system in Azraq camp for a total value of 280,787 JOD (396,591 USD) in beneficiary voucher transactions

• WFP continued distributing dry ration parcels along with ready-to-eat parcels throughout April, assisting stranded Syrian refugees at the berm with fresh fruit and vegetables. During the reporting period, WFP dispatched 58,788 RTE parcels

[Inter-Agency Financial Tracking: Refugee Component] During the 1st quarter of 2016, 164 million USD (21% of the total requested funds) have been received under the refugee component.

Emergency vaccination campaign conducted on Jordan berms at Hadalat and Rukban from 16th to 25th of April. Outcome: 13,896 children below 15 years received polio vaccine, 13,053 children aged from 6 months to 15 years, received measles vaccine 6,278 children from 6-59 months, received vitamin A and 5,423 women at reproductive age received TT vaccine.