Supporting the provision of quality and equitable access life saving, Secondary and tertiary healthcare services for  Syrian refugee Girls, Boys, Women and Men in camps and urban  and vulnerable Jordanians. Five years after onset of the Syrian crisis, the humanitarian aid provided to the Syrian refugee population in Jordan has shifted from emergency programs responding to different emergencies and providing life – saving aid, to programs targeting most vulnerable refugees and contributing to resilient living of refugees within host communities. In this sense, the proposed project is aimed at supporting services already facilitated via JHAS/UNHCR current health operation.

Based on the health sector and OCHA advisory board (call for Proposal OCHA documents), the provision of life saving, secondary and tertiary health care still remain a critical gap. Sustainability of such health services need more support in order to sustain the health conditions of refugees and prevent the deterioration of the refugee’s health status.  Accordingly JHAS has taken all possible measurements to improve the provision of primary health care for the Syrian refugees which will be definitely reflected in a tangible decrement of referrals provided for the same group of patients.

Particularly for the urban setting, JHAS/UNHCR has started implementing the cash for health program for the Syrian refugees to cover the cost of hospitalization services exclusively in MOH hospitals, in order to decrease the financial burden on the allocated annual referral budget.


Despite that JHAS/UNHCR jointly has prioritized the referral services for Emergency/Life saving procedures, and targeting the most vulnerable Syrian refugees. But the need is still beyond the current allocated budget. This is attributed to the remarkable increase of the coverage of health services for war wounded cases from Eastern and Western borders which consumed 35% of the annual allocated budget. In addition to other eligible life saving cases under the current health program for the Syrian refugees in camps mainly Zaatari and Azraq.


The capacity of JHAS referral hub and primary health care services has been gradually built in close coordination with UNHCR. Currently JHAS adopts disciplined and restrictive referral guidelines prioritizing emergency/ lifesaving interventions and a centralized referral team in JHAS/HQ consisting of medical doctors and other personnel to support prioritization of medical cases’ for ensured financial effectiveness. 

As JHAS has figured earlier in 2016 that the expenditure rates will eventually consume the allocated resources before the end of 2016, JHAS has already contacted other agencies to express urgent needs for funding support as explained below
1.	UNICEF in line of UNICEF targeted population groups, JHAS provided UNICEF with referral data on young children and received positive feedback from UNICEF, yet, nothing has been so far confirmed.
2.	UNFPA JHAS and UNFPA already reactivated the implementation of the RH program to Syrian refugees in Urban/ Jordan, therefore, UNFPA has advocated the urgent need to their back donor in order to support the referral for secondary RH services.
3.	UNHCR as the main funding agency for the health program, UNHCR is currently looking for different funding opportunities..