During the third quarter of 2014 (1 July- 30 September) the Law and Order Trust Fund for Afghanistan (LOTFA) continued to make progress in implementing activities under the 2014 Annual Work Plan (AWP) in all three pillars. This quarter was challenging because the delayed approval of the AWP gave limited time to implement all planned activities (the AWP was only approved in May 2014) while an unstable political environment resulting from the run-off of the presidential elections and subsequent election auditing prevented many high level decisions being made by the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MOIA). This particularly impacted activities in Pillars 2 and 3.