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Afghanistan
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306-002
USAID PROGRAM: Afghanistan
PROGRAM TITLE: Basic Education and Health (Pillar: Global Health)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Create Conditions for Stability, 306-002
STATUS: New
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $2,000,000 CSH
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: TBD
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 2002 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004Summary: The goal of the education and health program is to save lives and empower the Afghan people to be productive participants in economic recovery.
Inputs, Outputs, and Activities: In the longer term, the United States will assist Afghanistan to strengthen its public health system to deliver life-saving services to all Afghan people, through the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis and malaria; assistance to war victims, including prosthetic and rehabilitation services; local well and latrine construction; and strengthening the healthcare systems to improve and extend quality services.
FY 2002 Program: USAID will fund the publication and distribution of basic textbooks for two million children returning to grades K-12. Refresher training for teachers and targeted vocational education materials also will be delivered early in the recovery period. Funds will be used to support basic education reintegration for diverse populations—for home-schooled girls, out of school children, illiterate adults, ex-child soldiers, students from madrassas (religious schools) and public schools, internally displaced people, and reintegrated refugees. The program will focus on education quality, by recruiting and training teachers, focusing on improving the number and quality of available teachers, with a special focus on female teachers, utilizing a variety of training strategies such as hands-on workshops, training institutes, and interactive radio instruction.
USAID will coordinate with the Afghan government, multi-lateral agencies, and other donors to quickly increase basic health services throughout the country, through international private voluntary organizations in partnership with Afghan NGOs. USAID’s focus will be to promote domestic capacity to deliver basic services through the public and private commercial and social (NGO) sectors. Initial assistance will support programs that have immediate impact on the health of women and children. These include women’s health; antenatal and post-natal care; birth spacing; nutrition; infant and child feeding; and nutritional support for women and children (Vitamin A and Iron). Complementing these child health interventions will be immunizations and the treatment of diarrhea and acute respiratory infections.
Planned FY 2003 Program: USAID will expand its education activities in FY 2003. The United States will continue to improve the health of women and children through the activities commenced in FY 2002 in partnership with GOA, international PVOs and Afghan NGOs. The FY 2003 program will also support basic data collection for health planning, including epidemiological surveillance, evaluation of the existing health workforce and infrastructure and a determination of the needs for pharmaceutical products and for improved distribution of drugs and other healthcare commodities. This approach will build Afghan capacity at the national level for health planning, management, and health sector leadership. Program options for FY 2003 could be expanded to include prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, assistance to war victims, including prosthetic and rehabilitation services; improved environmental health conditions through local well and latrine construction; and strengthening the healthcare system to improve and extend quality services.
SUBMISSION OF THIS PROGRAM DATA SHEET CONSTITUTES FORMAL NOTIFICATION OF USAID’S INTENT TO OBLIGATE FY 2002 FUNDS FOR THE ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED ABOVE. Performance and Results: This is a new program in a very difficult context. To support the education system, USAID will provide textbooks, classroom supplies, teacher kits and training, and limited support for infrastructure. Other USAID activities will support vocational and technical training for youth and adults; and public non-formal education. Initial results in health will include the establishment of effective partnerships with international PVOs that will begin to provide services to improve women’s health; antenatal and post-natal care; birth spacing; nutrition; infant and child feeding; and nutritional support for women and children (vitamin A and iron) and the commencement of immunizations and the treatment of diarrhea and acute respiratory infections. During the first year a needs and feasibility assessment will be conducted in consultation with the GOA to identify longer-term activities and to establish program targets.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: International PVOs and Afghan NGOs; University of Nebraska (UNO); private contractors.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
306-002 Create Conditions for Stability CSH DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 Unliquidated 0 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 Unliquidated 0 0 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 2,000 0 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 2,000 0 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 3,200 6,000 Future Obligations 0 0 Est. Total Cost 5,200 6,000
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