AMMAN: Around 327 development projects and programs are being implemented in Jordan through foreign aid, according to Planning Ministry figures. The total foreign aid to Jordan since the beginning of 2015 until end of July amounted to about $1.06 billion, the figures revealed.
According to the ministry’s data, water ventures ranked first with 61 projects, followed by civil society, good governance and human rights sectors with 33 projects and health sector with 30 projects. Education sector’s ventures totaled 28, while the agriculture sector development projects reached 9. Youth sector projects were the same as those of the transportation with 3 ventures each, while 4 projects are being carried out for the Small and Medium Enterprises sector, the statistics said.
