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Girls continue to marry very young — 17 per cent before their 15th birthday. In some parts of the country, a shortage of schools and insufficient transportation are the main obstacles to education — a long walk to school means fewer children go.

Geographical barriers, especially in mountainous areas, also make it hard for children to reach the classroom. Once children do make it, they often receive a lower quality of education because only 48 per cent of their teachers have the minimum academic qualifications equivalent to an Associate Degree. The socio-political and humanitarian crises that Afghanistan faces critically affect a fragile education system.

Natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, and landslides exacerbate the situation for all children. These factors raise parental concerns about safety and can prevent them from sending their children to school. A strong education system is key to getting more children in school, keeping them there, and helping them to become healthy and responsible citizens.

Each year of schooling increases future wages on average by 3. They vowed to fight corruption and improve security, but also followed an austere form of Islam. By , they had taken control of almost all of the country. They enforced their own hardline version of Sharia, or Islamic law, and introduced brutal punishments.

Men were made to grow beards and women had to wear the all-covering burka. TV, music and cinema were banned. After their overthrow they regrouped in Pakistani border areas. In terms of lives lost, it is obviously not easy to say exactly. The number of coalition casualties is much better recorded than Taliban and Afghan civilians. Research by Brown University estimates losses in the Afghan security forces at 69, It puts the number of civilians and militants killed at about 51, each.

More than 3, coalition soldiers have died since - about two-thirds of them Americans. More than 20, US soldiers have been injured. According to the UN, Afghanistan has the third-largest displaced population in the world.

Since , some five million people have fled and not been able to return home, either displaced within Afghanistan or taking refuge in neighbouring countries. How the Taliban plan to govern Afghanistan remains unclear. Women face an uncertain future. Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen says the group will respect the rights of women and minorities "as per Afghan norms and Islamic values".

The militants had declared an amnesty across Afghanistan and said it wanted women to join its government. But there are fears over women's freedom to work, to dress as they choose, or even to leave home alone under Taliban rule. Another major fear is that the country will once again become a training ground for terrorism. Taliban officials insist that they will fully adhere to the US deal and prevent any group from using Afghan soil as a base for attacks against the US and its allies.

They say they aim only to implement an "Islamic government" and will not pose a threat to any other country. Social media sites were and still are awash with anguished comments from American and European veterans, military and civilian, of the year war in Afghanistan. The withdrawal of Western forces ended with the departure of the last U. As allied troops evacuated more than , Afghans, armies of diplomats, humanitarian aid, and development agency staff worked feverishly in Kabul and far away in national capitals to support the evacuation effort.

Perhaps even more remarkable is the degree to which civil society got involved. In the U. Similar private networks have sprung into action in other countries. Were there hitches and public hysteria, institutions, and people working at cross-purposes? All of that. The evacuation also laid bare the abject failure of the multilateralism that Europeans so pride themselves on — of the U. But much more importantly, tens of thousands of Afghans who had worked for Western militaries, embassies, or development organizations were left behind.

Their lives are now in mortal danger. Efforts to help them continue. Financial Sector: The Access to Finance Project aims to build institutional capacity to improve access to credit of micro, small, and medium enterprises. The Targeting the Ultra Poor TUP program in six provinces Balkh, Kabul, Kandahar, Kunar, Laghman, and Takhar , where it has been successful in targeting and initiating meaningful improvements in the well-being of ultra-poor beneficiaries.

Based on the success of the program, the TUP was scaled up in to reach close to 4, households in two more provinces Parwan and Nangarhar.

Health: Bringing most of the efforts in public health service delivery under one umbrella in Afghanistan, the Sehatmandi Health Project aims to increase the utilization and quality of health, nutrition, and family planning services across Afghanistan. The project supports implementation of a Basic Package of Health Services and an Essential Package of Hospital Services through contracting arrangements across the country. Sehatmandi also supports efforts to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Public Health at central and provincial levels to effectively carry out its stewardship functions.

Health indicators saw an improvement with the support of the System Enhancement for Health Action in Transition Program, the precursor of the Sehatmandi Project.

For example, the newborn mortality rate fell 32 percent from 53 to 23 per 1, live births from to ; the number of functioning health facilities increased from in to more than 2, in , while the proportion of facilities with female staff increased; and births attended by skilled health personnel among the lowest income quintile increased from Agriculture and Food Supply: Responding to food security challenges and reduced income from the COVID crisis Emergency Agriculture and Food Supply Project supports critical food supply chains and create short-term economic opportunities.

The project balances immediate action on job creation for food security and livelihood support with early action against crop failure seeds for wheat harvest, as well as irrigation infrastructure to mitigate drought-related crop loss for food security. To date, the project has reached over , farmers with improved seed packages as part of its efforts to boost wheat productivity of the next harvest season, beginning in June, for vulnerable households.

In April-May, EATS will be able to advance implementation of its key activities planned for the spring season, while preparing for another seed distribution campaign with improved seed packages covering over , households. It will engage in 76 districts and 5, villages in all 34 provinces across Afghanistan.

Further, 2, VSLAs have been established, with credit functions for their members. The project continues to support business development in the areas previously covered by Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Program. These services are part of a minimum service standards package that the government is committed to delivering to the citizens of Afghanistan. In addition, there are SPs approved and ongoing.

In terms of subproject implementation, there are SPs ongoing and SPs have been completed. Over 2 million people about 73 percent women and children have benefited from the construction of about kilometers of neighborhood roads, kilometers of community drains, and 44 kilometers trunk roads. Afghanistan continues to face daunting challenges and uncertainties. The COVID19 crisis imposed a heavy burden on the economy, public finances, and private sector investment in