Afghanistan Global Governance in Conflict

• By 2019 45k of Afghan security forces had been killed, 32k Afghan civilians
• 168th out of 189 HDI, low life expectancy (53), 3.8 mean years of schooling, 12% of women with secondary education
• Attacks on journalists, human rights defenders and women (87% endure violence)
• UNICEF protects against child marriage, provides mobile health teams to vaccinate children
• UNDP have appointed District Development Assembly in most rural areas, including women
• UN World Food Programme provides nutritious food and support for small-holder farmers
• Afghan government working with EU and UNCTAD to improve trade and development
• Treaties including CEDAW, which requires gender equality in access to education, health and politics
• Afghan Aid focuses on some of the poorest and most remote communities, aims for long-term development
• Over 1.5 million people supported in 2023 by Afghan Aid
• 285,000 people supported through water, sanitation and hygiene projects in 2022
• Over 36,000 women mobilised to join self-help and producer groups in 2022
• Over 350,000 families supported with emergency food parcels in the last 18 months
• Rural-urban migration in Kabul has deprived local communities of many services
• Funding from Japanese government to upgrade neighbourhoods given