AICS goal to reducing inequality has increasingly promoted initiatives to restore prosperity, wellbeing and dignity through enhanced livelihoods opportunities. Through its programmes implemented by International partners and CSOs, AICS encourages women and youth empowerment, supports persons with disabilities and helps people secure long-term means of subsistence by taking ownership of economic initiatives, to enhance in the long run Jordan’s prospects for sustainable growth.
AICS approach to resilience in the context of the humanitarian crisis in Iraq consists of both reducing the vulnerabilities and also the consequences of the crisis; it does so, on the one hand, by mitigating the risks and strengthening the capacities of the most vulnerable to absorb the shocks, such as conflicts and the severe economic crisis exacerbated by Covid-19 pandemic, and to avoid dangerous coping strategies providing livelihoods support through income generating and employment opportunities for IDPs and refugees in camps, out of camps, returnees and host communities. On the other hand, AICS seeks to improve the organisational capacities to effectively respond to the most urgent threats and risks coming from the crisis, providing support to local authorities through capacity development of governmental entities to protect the rights especially of the most vulnerable.
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