The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan hosts a sizeable refugee population, which contains over 700,000 Iraqis and Syrians. This refugee influx challenges Jordan’s national refugee response by allowing deficiencies, or “provisional gaps”, from governmental and humanitarian assistance to emerge and persist throughout current response plans. Within this paper, “provisional gaps” are defined as refugees’ inadequate access to essential rights as well as resources. Insufficient governmental and humanitarian assistance, as seen through provisional gaps, delays the development of sustainable refugee response strategies that would integrate Iraqi and Syrian refugees into the greater Jordanian society, including the national economy. As conflicts in neighboring Middle Eastern countries, such as Iraq and Syria, prolong without a foreseeable end, the protracted reality for refugees in Jordan necessitates durable efforts by the governmental and humanitarian sectors to fill these provisional gaps by implementing long-term refugee integration resolutions. This paper seeks to understand how provisional gaps emerge from governmental and humanitarian assistance by answering the main research question: “Why do provisional gaps in refugee assistance towards Iraqi and Syrian refugees in Jordan exist?” By exploring this research question, this paper will critically analyze the existence and persistence of provisional gaps through the lens of key governmental and humanitarian actors operating in Jordan. This actor-based, interdisciplinary research will consult various primary sources, such as governmental reports and humanitarian sector data, as well as secondary sources, including academic literature, academic journal articles, analyses regarding refugee conditions in Jordan, and excerpts from interviews with humanitarian workers in Jordan. This research interrogates how the interrelated actions of both the governmental and humanitarian sectors contribute to provisional gaps in refugee assistance. Overall, this paper will provide a contextual understanding of Jordan’s refugee response that concludes with an equitable vision aiming to improve future provisional efforts towards Iraqi and Syrian refugees on the ground.