Jordan

Water security and food safety dominate Jordan's One Health attention given the country's severe freshwater scarcity, alongside zoonotic surveillance tied to its livestock sector.

Jordan hosts one of the world's highest per-capita refugee populations, placing sustained strain on health infrastructure, particularly in northern governorates near the Syrian border.

Jordan maintains a comparatively well-developed health system by regional standards, with strong specialist and referral care concentrated in Amman and significant strain in refugee-hosting northern regions.

Jordan is among the most water-scarce countries in the world, with direct implications for sanitation infrastructure, agricultural water use, and long-term health system planning.

A modest but functional veterinary system monitors the country's livestock sector, with growing attention to food safety given Jordan's heavy reliance on food imports.

Worsening water scarcity, compounded by regional climate change and upstream water use by neighboring countries, is Jordan's most consequential long-term structural health and economic risk.

Jordan maintains credible national surveillance capacity and has built substantial refugee health service delivery experience through sustained management of displacement from multiple regional conflicts.

Sustaining health service delivery in refugee-hosting regions while managing acute water scarcity investment needs are the government's central and closely linked priorities.

Jordan receives substantial humanitarian and refugee-response financing, alongside water infrastructure investment from multilateral development banks and bilateral partners.

UNHCR, the World Bank, the European Union, USAID historically, and Gulf bilateral partners maintain significant programs across refugee response, water infrastructure, and health system strengthening.

Refugee-hosting health service costs continue to outpace the international financing allocated to cover them, creating a persistent structural funding gap in Jordan's northern governorates.

Jordan's water scarcity and refugee-hosting burden are converging into a single planning problem: any credible health investment strategy now has to treat water security as core health infrastructure, not a separate sector.