United Nations Strategic Framework for Afghanistan

28 I UNITED NATIONS STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR AFGHANISTAN - particularly girls, strengthening of school management Shuras including the participation of women in these mechanisms direct targeted support to basic and tertiary education students, improvement of learning assessments, and stakeholder capacity building on key sectoral functions, including evidence-based planning and monitoring. If education delivery by and for women and girls can be ensured, greater support to school-level management and oversight by sub-national education administrators may be possible, along with larger infrastructure work. Output 1.3: Stakeholders at national and subnational level are better able to manage and provide access to equitable, gender responsive, sustainable, climate resilient, and safe drinking water, improved sanitation, and positive hygiene practices in rural and poor urban communities. In collaboration with humanitarian partners, the UN will adopt a two-pronged approach that delivers emergency water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) support while simultaneously implementing longer-term, sustainable solutions that tackle the drivers of WASH-related humanitarian needs. In coordination with water management and infrastructure-related activities under Strategic Priority 2, the UN will prioritize the expansion of access to safe drinking water through the rehabilitation, continuous operation, maintenance, and expansion of water infrastructure in rural and urban locations (enabling through the provision of energy access/services). The UN will also support the implementation of integrated water resources management solutions at all levels to substantially increase water-use efficiency and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity. Efforts will also be expanded in tackling the poor availability of sanitation one of the main causes of disease outbreaks in Afghanistan through the provision of improved gender-responsive sanitation services and facilities, hygiene promotion, expansion of WASH services in communal centres, and the ensuring of availability of menstrual hygiene management for women and adolescent girls. Output 1.4: Inclusive, equitable, shock responsive national safety net systems are established and operational providing support to and strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable and marginalized people in Afghanistan. In the absence of a national social protection system, the UN, with its partners, will coordinate to provide scalable and shock-responsive safety nets that complement humanitarian assistance and build the resilience of the most vulnerable. This will include gender-, age-, and disability-responsive cash or in-kind safety nets beyond 12 months, such as maternal child cash grants, cash for basic needs, protection-related support, school feeding (covered under educational support above), and take- home rations, especially for the most vulnerable groups such as female-headed households, the elderly, and persons with disabilities, among others. Gender-responsive cash-for-work initiatives will prioritize the construction and rehabilitation of community assets that enhance community resilience by supporting livelihoods, improving access to essential services and markets, and reducing vulnerability to disasters and shocks (e.g., tertiary roads, irrigation systems, disaster risk prevention infrastructure, afforestation areas). In coordination with

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