HC Deb 07 February 1994 vol 237 cc70-1W
Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list each project funded by the Overseas Development Administration in Jordan over the last five years.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

Projects funded by the Overseas Development Administration in Jordan over the last five years are as follows:

  • Provision of a livestock expert to assist the Ministry of Agriculture sheep husbandry project.
  • Financial assistance to farmers to replant fruit trees in the Jordan valley following the severe storms of January and February 1992.
  • Provision of advice to the Jordan Industrial Consortium Engineering Company.
  • Senior advisory assistance to the Jordanian Electricity Authority and to the Irbid District Electricity Company.
  • Provision of equipment to the Jordan Meteorological Department for monitoring weather systems and locust swarms.
  • Advice on air traffic control to the Jordan Civil Aviation Authority.
  • Feasibility study for the Government of Jordan on the restructuring of telecommunications.
  • Provision of equipment and advice to the geological mapping section of the Natural Resources Authority for compiling and printing maps.
  • Advice on computerising the Jordanian passport system.
  • Study of an aquifer at Qa Disi in southern Jordan to enable the Water Authority of Jordan to determine sensible abstraction rates.
  • Study for a possible professional link between the Water Authority of Jordan and a United Kingdom water company.
  • Diagnostic study into pollution at the King Talal dam.
  • Study of possible contamination of groundwater in the Amman Zarka basin.
  • Feasibility study into centralising the Water Authority of Jordan's maintenance facilities on a single site.
  • Advice to develop in-service teacher training and textbook production.
  • Provision of equipment to the structures testing laboratory at the Jordanian university of science and technology.
  • Assistance to develop teaching English for specific purposes at the Jordan university of science and technology.
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  • Provision of computers and consultants to increase computer awareness among secondary school pupils.
  • Provision of equipment and advice to develop the national centre for occupational safety and health, and advice on industrial safety legislation.
  • Provision of equipment to vocational secondary schools.
  • Provision of a walking dragline for the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company.
  • The heads of mission small projects scheme is administered by the British ambassador to Jordan and funds four to six small projects each year.
  • The joint funding scheme has contributed to 11 Oxfam projects in Jordan over the last five years.