United Nations Strategic Framework for Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR AFGHANISTAN
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related activities undertaken under Strategic Priority 2, cash-for-training initiatives will build the skills
of the most vulnerable based on local labour market demand to enhance employability, livelihoods,
and longer-term financial stability. The UN will also work with NGOs and donor partners to develop
an interim strategy to enhance coherence in approaches and funding within the sector.
Output 1.5: Relevant providers and stakeholders have strengthened capacities to increase access to
and improve the provision of preventive, mitigating, and responsive protection services - including
on child protection, gender-based violence, sexual exploitation and abuse, and explosive hazards -
to the most vulnerable at family and community levels.
The UN will work closely with protection partners, civil society, NGOs, employers' and workers'
organizations, and other stakeholders to enhance their capacities and find entry points that are safe
to deliver mental health and psychosocial support services - including psychosocial first aid - scale
up comprehensive, quality, and survivors-centred gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and
response services, including initiatives to address harmful socio-cultural norms that perpetuate GBV,
and risk mitigation and response services, including for domestic violence, child labour, marriage,
recruitment, and sexual exploitation and abuse - such as bacha bazi 20 — and other harmful practices.
Provision of individualized support will be improved through the strengthening of service delivery,
case management services, mapping of referral systems for women and girl survivors of violence and
people with specialized needs, supporting legal identity systems (including for registration of births),
and facilitating access to housing, land, and property. Community structures will be empowered with
knowledge and skills and through dialogue and engagement to ensure local buy-in and ownership of
protection services. Additional safe spaces will be created to ensure women facing restrictions
continue to participate in community life and access essential services. Youth-friendly spaces, centres,
and services will also be supported. Humanitarian mine action will mitigate the impact of explosive
ordnance on civilians and enable the delivery of essential services. Direct advocacy and engagement
will be undertaken with the de facto authorities on key protection concerns, particularly those related
to women and children.
Leave no one behind: Interventions undertaken in support of this outcome will prioritize improving
equitable access to essential services for those living in hard-to-reach areas, facing intersecting
vulnerabilities, including those traditionally excluded and marginalized. Focus will be placed on
improving access to women, children, and youth (particularly girls), the elderly, persons with
disabilities, IDPs, returnees, refugees, those living in remote locations, people who use drugs, as well
as high-burden urban communities. The UN will work with implementing partners and service delivery
providers to ensure an intersectional approach that factors the specific needs of those that are left
behind or at risk of being left behind into their planning and service delivery.
Partnerships and Sustainability: To achieve impact at scale, the UN will mobilize and engage with both
national and international partners across the nexus to ensure standardization in approach,
knowledge-sharing and iterative planning, equality in service provision, and equity in coverage. To
ensure alignment in coverage, enhance complementarities, and avoid duplications across the
humanitarian-development nexus, coordination and joint planning with the humanitarian cluster
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