Khaberni - The Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) for the year 2026 has defined the funding requirements for Jordan for the next year as approximately $654 million, out of a total of $2.74 billion in funding requirements across Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan.
According to the plan, which covered three countries (Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey), the funding requirements included financial costs allocated to support the decisions of Syrians returning to their country, with approximately $13 million allocated for this item in Jordan. It is expected that 75,000 Syrians will return to their country from the Kingdom during 2026.
The plan targets reaching 306.5 thousand refugees, asylum-seekers, and stateless persons, out of 415.3 thousand who need support, and aims to reach 383 thousand Jordanians out of 1.276 million Jordanians who need assistance from the host communities.
The plan mentioned that in 2026, with developments and the occurrence of voluntary return, a renewed coordination structure will be created to ensure efficiency and response to both humanitarian and developmental priorities for refugees in the Kingdom, and this structure will remain in effect "until the full integration of refugees in national services is possible".
The plan's main priorities in Jordan include providing life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable population segments and providing food and cash aid, shelter services in camps, while comprehensive priorities will focus on protection by ensuring safety and dignity, equal opportunities and integration of gender and disabilities, and enhancing communication with communities. Also, coordination mechanisms will be streamlined, reducing fragmentation, and enhancing consistent political dialogue with governmental bodies.
The plan emphasized that a strong partnership with the government will remain central to guiding the response and maintaining a priority-driven agenda. The new structure will enhance links between development and refugee response, and procedures will be gradually simplified by integrating some refugee sectors into developmental groups, while other sectors remain to meet operational needs.
The plan mentioned that following the political change in Syria in late 2024, voluntary returns from Jordan increased significantly in 2025, reaching more than 175,000 people compared to about 50,000 people between 2018 and 2024. And during the next year, it is expected that 75,000 registered Syrian refugees will return under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
It attributed this decrease to -as stated in the plan- extended return intentions over five years, limited access to essential services, and unstable security conditions in some parts of Syria.
The Commission reaffirmed that it will continue with its partners to provide legal assistance, medical support, transportation, targeted cash assistance, accurate information, and coordination with actors in Syria to enable sustainable reintegration and protection monitoring.
While the return operations will continue, there are still challenges facing those who remain in Jordan, including the need to alleviate push factors to prevent early return.
The plan emphasized that "the decrease in funding and limited access to other sustainable solutions affect service delivery and threaten to undermine protection gains."
The response, whether for those who chose to return to Syria or for those who remain in Jordan, is closely coordinated with the Jordanian government, partners, refugees, and host communities.
On the other hand, the plan emphasized that by the end of 2025, the Syrian crisis remains one of the largest displacement crises globally, with about 11 million Syrians forcibly displaced, including approximately 4.5 million Syrian refugees hosted by neighboring countries (Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey), amid ongoing conflicts, natural disasters, and others linked to climate change, as well as deteriorating social, economic, and humanitarian conditions.
Up to 9 out of 10 Syrian refugees face difficulties in meeting their basic needs, while the support needed by host communities has reached unprecedented levels.
Overall, estimates indicate that more than 10.8 million people in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey will need some form of humanitarian and developmental assistance by 2026.
In the current year, about 16.5 million people inside Syria needed humanitarian aid, including 7.1 million internally displaced persons. However, the political change and unprecedented developments in Syria, which led to the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, had a profound impact on the lives of millions of Syrians, both inside and outside the country.
The plan mentioned that the new situation in Syria presents potential opportunities for return, while at the same time exacerbating the risks of new displacement.
It noted an increase in the number of Syrian refugees expressing a desire to return to their homes, where the latest enhanced survey of refugee perceptions and intentions published in September last year, indicates that 80% of refugees hope to return someday, while 18% of them intend to do so over the next year.
It mentioned that most refugees returned during the spring and after the end of the academic year, and by the end of last November, more than 1.2 million Syrians had already returned.
At the same time, new displacement continues. In the first half of 2025, more than 100,000 Syrians fled to Lebanon, the majority from Homs, Hama, Rural Damascus, and Idlib, confirming that although political change has opened prospects for return, protection risks still exist.
