Jahez: Climate-ready refugee hosting communities in Jordan

Through Jahez, which means ‘ready’ in Arabic, IWMI will build ‘climate-ready’ refugee hosting communities in Jordan.

This project aims to build climate resilience in refugee-hosting communities and along the humanitarian-development spectrum, through scalable interventions that integrate localized impact-based weather and climate information systems with community-based disaster-risk reduction and nature-based solutions, leveraging climate finance and other funding mechanisms. As a cornerstone of the Jahez project, IWMI and its partners will develop innovative, practical pilot projects in refugee-hosting communities in Jordan that prove the concept and demonstrate the effectiveness of a holistic approach to resilience.

Jahez is integrated into FCDO’s regional PHENOMENAL program and IWMI’s broader regional initiatives –Al Murunah, Al Murunah+ and Wiqaya – that collectively advance nature-based solutions for climate resilience. Together, they represent a coordinated regional approach, rather than isolated, stand-alone efforts.