Recognising Urban Refugees in Jordan: Opportunities for mobile-enabled identity solutions | Mobile for Development
Tuesday January 22, 2019

Recognising Urban Refugees in Jordan: Opportunities for mobile-enabled identity solutions

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This report, through an extensive literature review and stakeholder interviews, brings new focus on the complex identity-related challenges faced by urban refugees in Jordan, the tenth largest refugee-hosting nation in the world. UNHCR’s year-end 2017 data states that there are nearly 691,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan, and 85 per cent are presumed to be living outside of camps.