Jordan: Iris Scanning Program In Action
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Загружено: 2016-01-21
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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi visited an iris scanning identification programme during a visit to Jordan, where about 85 percent of the 630,000 Syrian refugee live in cities. The secure biometric programme ensures that the most needy receive the cash assistance they need much faster and more easily, allowing them to pay for food and rent.
“Anybody who is registered can be assisted, at the moment we are assisting 40,000 families. And the registered are around 150,000 families. We can actually assist all of those in two days.”
85% of the 630,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan are urban refugees. Officially they can’t work but still must pay for food and rent. The update to UNHCR's system will help the neediest among these people get the special cash assistance they need much more quickly and simply
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