United Nations Strategic Framework for Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR AFGHANISTAN
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Output 1.1: Health and nutrition systems have improved and resilient capacities and resources to
deliver accessible, affordable, gender- and age-responsive, shock responsive, and culturally
acceptable essential healthcare and nutrition services that prioritize the most vulnerable.
UN health and nutrition partners will strengthen collaboration and strategic partnership, including
proactive information sharing, joint planning, and programming, to minimize preventable morbidities,
mortality, and improve well-being, especially among women, children, youth, persons with disabilities,
and other vulnerable population groups.
Delivery of essential healthcare and nutrition services will be strengthened and expanded in
underserved areas to reach vulnerable people at each stage of the life cycle, with emphasis on
improved access, quality, and patient safety, especially for women and girls. Investments will prioritize
evidence-based, effective maternal, child, and adolescent health and nutrition treatment, prevention,
and promotion interventions.
Essential foundations of the public health systems will be sustained and strengthened, including
progressive transitional strategies and guidelines, trained human resources (with a focus on sustaining
and increasing female staff), small-scale critical infrastructure (such as solarization and water,
sanitation, and hygiene), models of care (including area-based referral pathways), medical
commodities, medicines and vaccines, a functional health information system, monitoring and
surveillance, and more effective sub-national coordination. Capacities will be reinforced to prevent,
detect, and respond to disease outbreaks and other health and nutrition shocks. The UN will advocate
for harmonization and alignment of financial resources toward national health and nutrition priorities
and increase transparency, accountability, predictability, adaptability, and efficiency of funding.
Development of policies, strategies, and guidelines in accordance with international standards and
best practices may be supported while mechanisms for surveillance, monitoring, and periodic surveys
will be enhanced.
Output 1.2: Formal and non-formal public, private, and community-based education systems are
better able to sustain and increase access to inclusive, safe, and quality education opportunities for
girls, boys, youth, and adults - especially girls and young women across all levels of education.
UN partners will prioritize interventions at basic education (primary and secondary), technical and
vocational education and training (TVET), and higher education levels through support to coordinated
education initiatives. These initiatives will form a bridge from humanitarian response to longer-term,
inclusive development to ensure continuity of learning while exploring alternative education
modalities for those not reached by these initiatives. Targeted support will be provided to the formal
and non-formal private and public education system with a focus on quality, monitoring, evidence
generation, and planning. Advocacy at all levels for the right to education, especially for girls and
women, will be prioritized.
To enable sustainable pathways, the UN will facilitate interventions that include, but not be limited
to, in-service teacher/lecturer training and professional development (including for women),
integrated school rehabilitation, provision of literacy, school feeding programmes, numeracy and skills
development opportunities, alternative education modalities for out-of-school children and youth,View entire presentation