Pillar
One: Human and Social Capital |
This
focuses on the development of human and social
capital. Investments in the areas of health
and education will provide the government with
the capacity to deliver basic social services.
It will also ensure that the country has a well
educated and well trained workforce.
Program
1.1 Refugee and IDP return |
Goal:
To support the voluntary return and
the initial reintegration of Afghan refugees
and IDPs into their chosen communities, and
to provide protection, humanitarian assistance
and solutions to residual IDPs.
Examples
Projects
implemented under this program include:
- Over 370,000 refugees
were assisted to return from 17 countries
under the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation/UNHCR
program and provided with Mine Risk Education.
A further 60,000 IDPs were assisted to return
home supported by IOM, and 100,000 received
Mine Risk Education in camps across the
country.
- UNHCR provided returnees
with return transport grants amounting to
a total of $3.5 million.
- Over 6,000 metric tons
of wheat and 244 metric tons of non food
items were distributed by WFP and 80,000
plastic sheets, 80,000 meters of hygienic
cloth, and over 120,000 kg of soap were
distributed by UNHCR.
Goal:
To get all children back to school and ensure
that they are getting quality education.
Examples
Projects implemented under this program
include:
- School construction:
in the current year 23 schools have been
constructed or rehabilitated, another 141
are under construction, and over 500 are
at the planning phase. In addition, 3,500
school water points and 1,500 latrine facilities
are expected to be completed by January
2004.
- Textbooks:
a total of 10.2 million textbooks (grades
1-7 in Dari and Pashto) have been printed
and distributed.
- School kits:
3.9 million children received stationery
kits and 72,000 teachers received basic
training materials.
- Teacher development:
over 25,000 teachers have been trained in
language, arts, pedagogy and land mine awareness;
a further 25,000 will be trained between
December and March 2004; and over 400 teachers
from provinces and districts have received
two months in-service training.
| Program 1.3 Health
and Nutrition |
Goal:
To reduce the high levels of mortality and morbidity,
especially among women and children, through
the development of health services that address
the priority health and nutrition problems,
and through developing the capacity to deliver
the necessary services.
Examples
Projects
implemented under this program include:
- Vaccine and immunization:
5 million children (aged 9-59 months) received
Measles vaccine; 6 million have been vaccinated
for polio in 2003. Maternal Neonatal Tetanus
Elimination
campaign begun, targeting 740,000 women of child-bearing
age - coverage is 95 per cent, and next year
all women will be covered.
- Combating malnutrition:
1.2 million people given vitamin C tablets,
300,000 malnourished women and children
treated.
- Safe motherhood:
comprehensive program to give women access
to emergency obstetric care across the country
in each of 32 provinces by end 2003.
Basic Package
of Health Services (BPHS) for Children Under
5 – provision of primary health care to
children with the goal of decreasing infant
and under five mortality and morbidity. Basic
Package of Health Services to mothers and infants
– improving access to a full range of
affordable reproductive health services and
provision of antenatal, delivery, and postnatal
care in order to decrease maternal mortality.
Program
1.4 Livelihoods and Social Protection |
Goal:
To put in place an effective and affordable
social policy which enhances human security
and supports sustainable rural and urban livelihoods,
thereby promoting the elimination of poverty.
Examples
Projects
implemented under this program include:
- 3,600 km roads; 40 water
supply systems; 16 schools; 2.3m labour-days
of work generated through the National Emergency
Employment Programme (NEEP)
- Some 8,100 wells/water
points and 3,300 reservoirs are under construction.
- 1,000 young working people
in Kabul and 3,000 war-affected youth, including
former underage soldiers in Kunduz, Takhar,
Badakshan supported through non-formal education,
vocational training and livelihood skills;
project to be expanded to the northern,
central and eastern region.
Program
1.5 Culture, Media and Sports |
Goal:
The Program focuses on the revitalization of
culture, media and sport in Afghanistan.
Examples
Projects
implemented under this program include:
- Consolidation
and conservation of cultural monuments and
sites:
progress in Bamiyan, Jam, Herat, and Kabul
(Babur Garden, Timur Shah’s tomb);
emergency stabilization of the Five Minarets
in Herat completed, major fragments of cave
mural paintings in Bamiyan collected and
restored.
- Kabul
Museum:
physical rehabilitation of the building
fully funded and expected to be completed
by end of 2003. Statues from the Kushan
period have been restored.
- Radio
Television Afghanistan:
television department being entirely re-equipped
and modernized. National coverage for radio
and TV possible by end 2003 with new equipment
from India.
- Sport
infrastructure:
renovation of Kabul stadium started; funds
for new football stadium in Kabul, and offices
for the Afghan Football Federation.
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