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Afghanistan

Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development Making Markets work for SDGs

Afghanistan Civil society and effective governance

September 2022

November 2022

This 10 weeks assessment is planned to better understand the impact of the financial crisis that has affected Afghanistan since 2021 on private sector business activities, with a focus on access to financial services, as well as on women-run small-medium enterprises (SME). REACH intends to conduct this research through in-depth qualitative interviews targeting traders, producers, money exchangers, as well as women-led businesses, acting as key informants. The details of the approach and implementation plan are described below. The findings of this assessment are intended to inform UNDP Afghanistan country office and UNDP IICPSD’s private sector-led economic recovery strategy which aims to open credit lines to local companies, including women-led and community organisations in a better capitalised manner, as well as supporting businesses with recent financial restrictions, such as liquidity crisis, money transfer restrictions, access to financial services and foreign currency shortages.

Current projects

Safeguard and Create Artisan Livelihoods and Enterprises for Underserved Populations in Afghanistan (SCALE-UP AFGHANs)

Holistic and multisectoral emergency response, using Settlement Approach, for the population living in and around informal settlements in North, West and Eastern Afghanistan

Provision of emergency food assistance to IPC Phase 3 and 4 populations in Nuristan Province, in Mandol, Nurgaram, Parun, Wama and Waygal districts

Provision of Consultancy Services under Afghanistan Community Resilience and Livelihoods Project

Services to support the Implementation of FAO’s emergency and resilience project to support vulnerable Smallholder communities and farmers through Emergency Food Security Project

Cash for Education for 9,031 households in Nuristan province

Registration exercise for cash for 30,178 households for winter response in Badakhshan province

Provision of Consultancy Services under Afghanistan Community Resilience and Livelihoods Project

Provision of Emergency WASH Assistance to vulnerable people in Kandahar

Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development Making Markets work for SDGs

CCCM Multi-sectorial Service Provision and Coordination in ISETs in Mazar-e-Sharif and Jalalabad

Services to support the implementation of FAO’s emergency and resilience response project aimed to support vulnerable drought affected smallholder farmers

Emergency livelihood assistance to safeguard food and nutrition security and sustain local production of food among most vulnerable rural families affected by multiple shocks in Afghanistan

Emergency livelihood assistance to safeguard food and nutrition security, sustain income and local production of most vulnerable rural families affected by multiple shocks in Afghanistan

Provision of integrated humanitarian assistance, including WASH, Education, and child protection services to the most vulnerable populations including extremely vulnerable children (and their families) in NR

Sustaining Essential Services Delivery Project (Support for Afghan People)

Consolidation and expansion of community-based education (CBE) in Afghanistan

Enhancing access to education for Out-of-School children in Afghanistan and supporting evidence-driven cash responses in Afghanistan through REACH

Accelerating ending open defecation in Afghanistan, Aqcha, Jawzjan province

Emergency Food Aid in Northern Provinces of Afghanistan

Provision of humanitarian WASH response and durable solutions to vulnerable people in humanitarian need

Hiring Facilitating Partner EZ-KAR, Package#2 (Mehtarlam, Assabadad, Parun)

Hiring facilitating partner (FP) : Urban CCAP Second Additional Financing Expansion : Faizabad

Eshteghal Zaiee – Karmondena Project (EZ-Kar), Facilitating Partner-EZ-KAR, Package # 4 (Taluqan)

District Development Fund