Shamil: Technical Assistance for Comprehensive Social Protection

The Shamil technical assistance facility is a core component of the United Kingdom’s £95 million, five-year‑ programme Strengthening Societal and Economic Resilience in Jordan (SSERJ). The goal of the SSERJ programme is to support the Government of Jordan to build a comprehensive and sustainable social protection system, protecting people from shocks, based on a strengthened social contract. SSERJ consists of the following components:

• • Technical assistance to strengthen the social protection system

• • Financial assistance to pilot new social assistance and/or social insurance schemes

• • Financial assistance for vulnerable refugees and research to promote refugee economic inclusion and self-reliance

• • Technical assistance for monitoring, evaluation and lesson learning.

Shamil is a four-year project that runs from 2023-2027 and aims to support the government of Jordan to build a national social protection system that ensures access to social security for everyone, across the lifecycle. The project will promote greater gender equality, women’s empowerment, and the inclusion of persons with disabilities and other at-risk groups within the national social protection system and more broadly across society.

Shamil adopts a flexible, demand-driven and partner led approach to supporting social protection system strengthening by closely collaborating with key stakeholders in Jordan’s social protection space, including government, non-government and development partners. Shamil will work with key government partners to identify and address needs and priorities for system strengthening. Shamil will also foster collaboration with the other key technical assistance providers and development partners working in the social protection sector to ensure synergy, complementarity and greater effectiveness of results.

Shamil supports the Government of Jordan across all aspects of social protection, including analysis of the challenges Jordan faces that can be addressed by social protection; policy development; evidence generation; and strengthening the design and effectiveness of social protection schemes.

Shamil is being implemented by Development Pathways, in partnership with Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD) and MMIS Management Consultants.