Photo by: USAID Afghanistan. USAID has trained more than 633,000 men and women in improved farm and business skills since 2009, according to the United States embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Livelihood Advancement of Marginalized Populations (LAMP) | U.S. Agency for International Development The UN Electoral Support Project (UNESP) provides direct support to Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) to conduct the next electoral cycles in Afghanistan from October 2017 to December 2019, including the long-due Parliamentary Elections (Wolesi Jirga) and District Council Elections on 20 October 2018. Download data: Asian Development Outlook, Statistical Tables. its projects are contributing to USAID's strategic objectives for its energy projects in Afghanistan, and work with DABS to complete and begin implementing the capacity-development roadmap discussed in USAID's July 2018 technical assessment by June 30, 2019. USAID is working in partnership with the Afghan Government and civil society to support their efforts to build a stable, secure, and prosperous country. 8. Photo by: West Asia News Agency via Reuters. Bilateral projects, funding by main donors in 1384 (2005/06) Figure 5. Mon, 10/04/2021 - 14:00. USAID plays a vital role in partnering with the countries of Asia to ensure that the development decisions they make today help realize their long-term success by moving them forward on their journeys to self-reliance. Chemonics International, Inc. is a private international development firm based in Washington, D.C. Pause in USAID's Afghanistan funds rankles contractors. Normal topic. On Jan. 25, barely a month after the U.S. mission in Afghanistan officially came to an end, USAID suspended International Relief and Development (IRD), one of its biggest non-profit contractors that run projects in Iraq and Afghanistan. We define this end-goal as the day when they are able to plan, finance and implement solutions to solve their own development . Drafts and updates informative documents such as project briefing memoranda and papers project amendments project procurement documents fact sheets and other outreach and communication products. 0. The contract calls for Berger long-term key personnel based in Kabul . It announces regular grant opportunities on a range of thematic issues to address development challenges and also on finding innovative solutions for world's problems. System Enhancing for Health Actions in Transition (SEHAT) Program. USAID's Office of Economic Growth & Infrastructure responded to this request by providing a spreadsheet of 5,648 construction project records. More on ADB's economic forecasts for Afghanistan. There is a breakdown, a problem, in the USAID funding system for Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific. The website and market is now defunct, but the "success" of the project lives online at USAID. individual USAID Missions which had operational project Components. AUDIT REPORT 8-306-21-002-P . Afghanistan's biggest economic challenge is finding sustainable sources of growth. USAID is helping Afghanistan become a more responsible and integrated member of the region and the world. Overview. In USAID's 10 years of work in Afghanistan, it has spent $13.3 . USAID has claimed that the Afghan education sector is an area in which USAID programs "have contributed to measurable positive impacts on Afghanistan's development and stability." 3. As of March 1, 2021, USAID's COVID-19 assistance totaled over $10.2 million. The goal of the LAMP Project is to create sustainable jobs and livelihoods for internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, and host communities in five target urban centers in Afghanistan. Its financial assistance to NGOs in developing countries runs into millions of dollars every year. by jtahmas » Mon, 10/04/2021 - 14:00. The Afghans Building Capacity Program contract is one of USAID's largest . DFID - Funding breakdown per project type in 1384 (2005/06) Figure 7. The project may feature a range of . The back and forth . The Project Management Specialist will also provide expertise and technical assistance focusing Gender Office outcomes and impact and integrating that information into USAID/Afghanistan's . 0. by jtahmas. Children and women are pictured in Kabul on Nov. 20, 2021. Project list. 6 Records in the dataset contain information such as The Bank-administered Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund has raised more than $12.9 billion. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific. USAID's inspector general, the FBI and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction are investigating the expenses of IRD's founder and former president, Arthur B. Keys, and . The project supported by USAID is aimed at electrification of rural schools in Afghanistan, through projects like the Afghanistan Clean Energy Program (ACEP). A mid-term evaluation of the Land Titling and Economic Restructuring in Afghanistan (LTERA) Project was commissioned by USAID in order to assess how successfully the contractor Deloite, Touche, Tohmatsu, Emerging Markets Group, LTD, and the subcontractor, Terra Institute, have performed in Results were verified by random sampling, and some funding was linked to measures of . Great strides have been made in health and education, bringing more Afghans back into economic and civic life. Analyzes the policy documents of the Government of Afghanistan, Afghan non-governmental organizations, and other donors operating in the country to identify "targets of opportunity" for future USAID interventions in support of democracy strengthening efforts in order to minimize duplication of effort. More focused activities were undertaken in Afghanistan for Libraries Rebuilding and the West Bank (briefly) and attempted to Since 2002, USAID, the organisation through which the U.S. government channels the vast majority of its aid to Afghanistan, has spent $1 billion building 1,700 km of new paved road. The Monitoring Support Project (MSP) was tasked with providing USAID/Afghanistan with data on the implementation of its project portfolio, allowing technical teams to compare information from their own monitoring efforts with additional sources of monitoring and verification (M&V) data, and make evidence-based management decisions on the performance of their activities. by jtahmas » Mon, 10/04/2021 - 14:00. The Oct. 27 front-page article "Access to Afghan projects to be lost " highlighted a critical issue for USAID projects in Afghanistan but did not include some of the very strong oversight we . United States Agency for International Development : To enhance the coordination of U.S.-funded water projects, the Administrator of USAID, in conjunction with the Secretaries of DOD and other relevant agencies should consider designating Afghan Info or some other database as the centralized U.S. government project-development database for U.S. development efforts in Afghanistan. Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States. A copy of all records related to the following USAID programs in Afghanistan: ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE & PRIVATE SECTOR STRENGTHENING (EGPSS) from September 1, 2005 to June 30, 2009.