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How cash for work is saving lives in Afghanistan
More than 70,000 people have benefitted from jobs created by such livelihoods recovery initiatives, which provide equal pay for men & women.
For Amir Muhammad Ahmadi, 42, every other day was becoming increasingly more difficult, since the shift in power in Afghanistan, six months ago.
A laborer by trade, in the ancient city of Herat, he was seeing the demand for his services decline.
But today, he was telling his story by the side of a canal, as his colleagues continued digging and cleaning up a canal that passes through congested settlements of Herat city. read more
What We Do & Where We Work
UNDP has been working in Afghanistan for more than 50 years on challenges related to climate change and resilience, gender, governance, health, livelihoods and rule of law.
ABADEI is UNDP’s flagship crisis response programme launched in 2021 as part of the ongoing UN-led response to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and the breakdown of the country’s economy following the August 2021 shift in power in Afghanistan.
ABADEI, which denotes communities being resilient and inspires hope for a better future in several local languages, is a tailored area-based integrated programming approach to support basic human needs, complementing short-term humanitarian life-saving assistance with the safeguarding of livelihoods and the strengthening of community resilience. It focuses on addressing worsening poverty and vulnerability, supporting community resilience and social cohesion and enabling the rehabilitation of small-scale infrastructure vital for basic human needs. It supports the creation of immediate sources of income through cash-for-work, local markets and livelihood opportunities, with a particular focus on threatened agri-business and regenerative agriculture infrastructure and services, which are critical for food security.
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When we began our work five decades ago, one in three people worldwide lived in poverty. Now? Just one in eight. Let’s finish the job.
About UNDP Afghanistan
169
HDI rank
54.5%
National poverty line
2,229
Gross national income (GNI) per capita
0.511
Human Development Index (HDI)