United Nations Strategic Framework for Afghanistan

UNITED NATIONS STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR AFGHANISTAN 41 4.4 Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus Where appropriate, the UN will endeavour to apply a humanitarian-development-peace nexus approach throughout the design, coordination, and implementation of its activities in support of this UN Strategic Framework. The UN Strategic Framework complements humanitarian investments made through successive Humanitarian Response Plans in a manner that strengthens the resilience of the most vulnerable groups by promoting approaches that enable people to have their basic human needs met by reducing risks to their well-being; mitigating suffering from displacement; preventing conflict; and helping people and communities anticipate, prepare, respond, and recover from shocks and crises. Development of programmatic responses will be underpinned by multidimensional, cross-pillar analysis to help identify, prioritize, and sequence catalytic interventions that help to ameliorate the causes of vulnerability. humanitarian cluster system - Operationalization of a cross-pillar approach requires close collaboration and coordination with actors across the humanitarian, development, and peace continuum. With due consideration to the primacy of humanitarian principles and space, the UN will strengthen its partnerships with humanitarian coordination mechanisms notably the Humanitarian Country Team and the including through more regular and structured engagements with UN Results Groups and STWGs that will facilitate improved and complementary analysis, coordination, planning, and implementation. UN interventions will also be guided by the 'IDP Solutions Strategic Framework,' which integrates a cross-pillar approach to systematic and collaborative area-based planning and programming for solutions to protracted internal displacement in Afghanistan. UN Strategic Framework & Humanitarian Response Linkages Health and Nutrition Education WASH Social Protection Protection Services Health Nutrition Education WASH Economic Stabilization Private Sector Development Agriculture and Livelihoods Social cohesion, Inclusion, & Reconciliation Justice and Rule of Law Human Rights and Women's Rights Cash & Voucher Working Group* Protection Food Security & Agriculture Emergency Shelter and NFI * Potential indirect linkages not exhaustive

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