Afghanistan faces numerous challenges after 23 years of conflict. Despite positive progress during the last three years, poverty and food insecurity remain widespread; health indicators are among the worst in the world; many school-aged children do not attend school, and enrolment of girls is particularly low.
Protracted relief and recovery operation 10233.0, operational from April 2003 to December 2005, contributed to early recovery and reconstruction, focusing on livelihoods and household food security of 9 million beneficiaries.
This PRRO is in line with the priorities of the Government and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework; it aims to enhance food security and improve human and productive capital in food-insecure and remote areas, with emphasis on vulnerable women and children. It will contribute to Strategic Objectives 1–5 and to Millennium Development Goals 1–7.
The PRRO will support 6.6 million Afghans in food-insecure areas through various activities, including food for work, food for training and food for education in partnership with the Government, non-government partners and communities. Target groups include poor and food-insecure households, internally displaced people, tuberculosis patients and their families, victims of natural disasters, schoolchildren, teachers and illiterate people. Capacity-building of government counterparts will be an important element.
The PRRO will expand joint programmes and joint programming with partner United Nations agencies under the leadership of the Government.
