Through its Development Credit Authority (DCA) initiative, USAID provides partial credit guarantees to mobilize local financing in developing countries. Guarantee agreements encourage private lenders to extend financing to small- and medium-scale borrowers, who lack access to credit facilities.

Since 2002, USAID has invested more than $2 billion to support the development of Afghanistan’s road network.  As one of Afghanistan’s major development partners, USAID is moving to phase-out investments in road construction and developing the Afghan government’s capacity to perform infrastructure operations and maintenance (O&M).  The Road Sector Sustainability Program (RSSP) is designed to assist the government of Afghanistan make the transition through restructuring and reform to self-sustainability in the roads O&M sector.

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The Faculties of Higher Education (FoHE) Program supports the Ministry of Higher Education’s goal to improve the quality of education for future teachers at Afghan universities by providing new facilities and infrastructure.

The main focus of the six-year, $10 million program is the construction of two-story buildings at six university campuses around Afghanistan. The program began in May 2008 and ended in December 2014.

The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Construction of Health and Education Facilities (CHEF) program supported Afghanistan’s Ministries of Public Health and Education by providing much needed infrastructure in the form of hospitals, midwife training centers, teacher training colleges, and other medical and education facilities in the country. These USAID-funded facilities were developed in close cooperation with the local communities, district and provincial government authorities, as well as the Ministries of Public Health and Education. The facilities designed and constructed under the CHEF program are energy efficient and built in accordance with international building code standards.