Annual report

In 2023, we continued I would like to express my gratitude to the United to grapple with the challenges of upholding our core Nations agencies, our partners from the International principles and values and simultaneously delivering on Financial Institutions such as the World Bank, the Asian the imperative to assist people in need. [...] The tremendous Development Bank (ADB), the Islamic Development Bank efforts and tenacity of all partners involved have shown (IsDB), bilateral and multilateral donors and assistance the incredible creativity and perseverance of assistance partners, non-governmental organizations, and all those partners who were determined not to leave the Afghan who continue to support the people of Afghanistan. [...] Throughout 2023, constructive engagements continued ⟶ Engagements with the de facto Ministry for the with the de facto Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice on their Information and Culture, Propagation of Virtue and enforcement of particular decrees and edicts of the de Prevention of Vice, and Justice, as well as the de facto facto authorities, as w. [...] in this area, especially between the months of June and August.” When baby Saida was brought to a health centre in Herat, In Afghanistan, 1 in 10 children under the age of 5 are western Afghanistan, she measured 10 cm around the mid- malnourished, and almost half are stunted, the result of a very upper arm circumference – a simple method to determine the limited diet and a lack of nutrients. [...] the UN and its partners coordinated the provision of From July to December 2023, 558,220 people benefitted scalable and shock-responsive safety nets to complement from short-term employment and improved livelihoods humanitarian assistance and help build the resilience through cash-for-work activities with UN support, including of the most vulnerable.