Kabul, Afghanistan 5 April 2022

UNDP Afghanistan’s flagship programme, ABADEI is working in close partnership with Care International, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Danish Refugee Council, Norwegian Church Aid and Swedish Committee for Afghanistan to improve coordination, build synergy and map interventions. Following up the 62M signing ceremony last week, the consortium of partners mapped out where the four project pillars of ABADEI can find complementarities and steer the programme to deliver expectations of rural and urban communities.

“We have to go beyond ABADEI for UN agencies, entities and services. The coordination is becoming vital to have one comprehensive package for the Afghan people. We need to institutionalise the agreement and not make it fragmented. The partnership should extend beyond ABADEI and the consortium,” said Surayo Buzurukova, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative to Afghanistan

Since August 2021, UNDP Afghanistan has taken a human-centred approach to turn crisis response into development. Digitising our operations has been a key enabler to identify and expand ABADEI’s model.

In the digital platform will support closing information gaps and avoid duplication where consensus building and partnership coordination meetings have in the past result to have information disparate, resulting interventions to compete rather than harmonise.

Partners in the exercise were able to build on the digital mapping dashboard to avoid duplication and find complementarities in sectors such as health, energy, agriculture, and market access, livelihoods, disaster risk reduction and climate change.

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UNDP Afghanistan: ABADEI Mapping Dashboard prototype model

Digitising our delivery not only benefits UNDP. It also builds on the implementing partners to track and trace where development should be delivered proportionally in a decentralised mode of implementation. This will also support to validate interventions that are community led.  

Future proofing UNDP in crisis

Models of development are adapting to more global disruption than in past decade. Climatic, political, and public health shocks are more pertinent leaving UNDP to transform development approaches to be more agile in complex situations. The ABADEI partnership uses a multi-stakeholder and platform approach, to implement development in Afghanistan. Strategic partnerships have made it possible to stay and deliver for the people of Afghanistan under the ABADEI programme.

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UNDP Afghanistan: ABADEI has two tiers across 4 areas of Afghanistan. 1) Emergency Phase implementing from 06-12 months basic human needs preservation and safeguarding of essentials services and livelihoods. 2) Community Resilience from 12-24 months of the intervention.

Future proofing UNDP in crisis

Models of development are adapting to more global disruption than in past decade. Climatic, political, and public health shocks are more pertinent leaving UNDP to transform development approaches to be more agile in complex situations. The ABADEI partnership uses a multi-stakeholder and platform approach, to implement development in Afghanistan. Strategic partnerships have made it possible to stay and deliver for the people of Afghanistan under the ABADEI programme.

Learning from each other is critical in protracted crisis

Going forward, the ABADEI programme will build on implementing partners to have more granular data to understand at the district level and village levels specific targets of intervention.

Digitising ABADEI clusters can support longitude planning in a crisis situation to forecast preparedness, recovery, and resilience interventions. However, feedback loop systems must be robust to expand ABADEI. 

“This is a testing period for all of us and the implementation needs to be on the ground as soon as possible. It will help us see how to improve and challenges. We want you to be our eyes to know what the needs are and demands on the ground,” says, Surayo Buzurukova, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative to Afghanistan

About ABADEI consortium of partners

CARE

CARE International is a global confederation of 16 members and four candidates and one affiliate organization working together to end poverty. In 2020, CARE worked in 104 countries worldwide, implementing 1,349 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid projects. We reached more than 92.3 million people directly and 433.4 million people indirectly.

Danish Refugee Council

Danish Refugee Council is a leading international humanitarian displacement organization, supporting refugees and internally displaced persons during displacement, in exile, when settling and integrating into a new place, or upon return. We provide protection and life-saving humanitarian assistance. We support displaced persons in becoming self-reliant and included in hosting societies - and we work with communities, civil society, and responsible authorities to promote the protection of rights and peaceful coexistence.

Islamic Relief

Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) has worked in Afghanistan since 1999, supporting livelihoods, healthcare, and education in the most vulnerable communities across the country. IRW provides both emergency aid and long-term development.

Norwegian Church Aid 

Norwegian Church Aid works with people and organizations worldwide in their struggle to eradicate poverty and injustice. We help those whose greatest needs, regardless of ethnicity, creed, political or religious affiliation.

Swedish Committee for Afghanistan

The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan has worked in Afghanistan for more than thirty-nine years. We will continue to do so even now. We have more than 6,000 employees working in different parts of the country.

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