Facing Double Crises: Rapid assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable workers in Jordan

The current report has been developed by the ILO in collaboration with the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research (Fafo), and focuses on the impact of the pandemic on vulnerable groups in the Jordanian labour market, including vulnerable Jordanians, Syrian refugees, women and workers in informal employment.

The focus on – and use of the term – “vulnerable workers” reflects the fact that the respondents who were approached in the questionnaire survey were sampled from the ILO’s programme databases . These databases primarily contain individuals that have required various types of support from the ILO in obtaining work and/or in ensuring decent working conditions – i.e. workers

who in different ways can be described as “vulnerable” with respect to the labour market.

This also implies that the assessment presented in this report is based on a nationally non-representative – but focused – sample of workers and job seekers.