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132 women completed USAID’s Afghan Civil Service training program. This program equips women with the knowledge and skills to successfully serve the Afghan people in the civil service and begin a career in government.
USAID’s Textbook Printing and Distribution Project supported Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education (MoE) to expand access to, and improve the quality of, basic education for school-aged children. Through this project, USAID partnered with the Afghan government to print and distribute 47.7 million ministry-approved textbooks in Pashto, Dari, and English.
The Sustaining Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) Plus Afghanistan is a five-year project to strengthen the impact and sustainability of the Afghan Social Marketing Organization (ASMO). ASMO is a local social marketing organization established with support from USAID to promote family planning (FP), diarrhea prevention and management, as well as nutrition via the national distribution of water purification tablets, oral rehydration salts and other diarrhea therapies, and family planning and other products at affordable prices. SHOPS Plus increases demand for such products through social and behavior change communications (SBCC) campaigns.
The IHSAN project improves the nutritional status of women of reproductive age and children younger than 5 years of age, focusing on the children’s first 1,000 days (conception to 24 months of age). The expected outcomes of IHSAN are to decrease stunting by at least 5 percent over five years, and to reduce anemia among women of reproductive age by at least 10 percent. The objectives are: 1) increasing the government’s capacity to institutionalize nutrition programs, 2) advancing the adoption of optimal nutrition and hygiene behaviors at community and household levels, and 3) improving the availability of nutrition, hygiene, and sanitation services.
The USAID HEMAYAT project seeks to increase the utilization of high-quality family planning (FP) and maternal and newborn health (MNH) services through the introduction and scaling-up of culturally appropriate, cost-effective, high impact interventions that strengthen and enhance existing primary care services provided through the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) and the private sector. HEMAYAT targets five densely populated provinces: Balkh, Herat, Kabul, Kandahar, and Nangarhar. Using the "3 delay model,” HEMAYAT has realigned activities to address the leading causes of maternal and newborn deaths.
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