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Afghanistan
>> Regional Overview >> Afghanistan Overview Program Data Sheet
306-003
USAID PROGRAM: Afghanistan
PROGRAM TITLE: Democracy and Governance (Pillar: Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Rehabilitate Afghanistan as a Nation-State, 306-003
STATUS: New
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $168,200,000 ERF; $17,250,000 ESF
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: TBD
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 2002 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2008Summary: USAID support to the Democracy and Governance sector is designed to equip the Afghan people to develop a stable multiethnic and representative government that can provide a national unifying force to the fractious conditions in Afghanistan. Funds will support rule of law, civil society and judicial activities, with a special emphasis on the rights of women.
Inputs, Outputs, and Activities: The key to success in the governance sector is to ensure the full participation of civil society in the construction of the new Afghan government. USAID can assist in this effort to promote the overall goal of good governance, by continuing to provide technical assistance and training to local political institutions to increase transparency, accountability, and participation. These themes will be stressed in social services provision, economic and financial administration, and dissemination of information through the media. Lessons learned from other reconstruction efforts show that early involvement in these critical processes is essential for their longer-term success. The U.S. Government will assist with some or all of these processes, and prioritization will be based on events on the ground, Afghan government needs, and other donor inputs. Such involvement can demonstrate immediate, tangible support for the Interim Authority.
The Bonn Agreement lays out an extremely ambitious agenda for the Interim Authority, including establishment (with U.N. assistance) of: a Supreme Court," as well as other courts as may be established by the Interim Administration"; a Judicial Commission "to rebuild the domestic justice system"; an independent Human Rights Commission; and an independent Civil Service Commission.
FY 2002 Program: Funds will be strategically directed to strengthen civil society organizations that promote human rights and support human rights monitoring. Other efforts will support the effective administration of justice at local and national level. The United States has set as an overarching goal to encourage the participation of women and minorities in government at the local and national levels. Targeted assistance to national level institutions, such as key sectoral ministries, may also be appropriate. Such efforts will strengthen civil society to play an advocacy role for good governance.
Planned FY 2003 Program: USAID will continue funding similar activities that strengthen democracy in Afghanistan.
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: To support the provisions of the Bonn Agreement, USAID will provide assistance as requested to support the administration and logistics of the Loya Jirga, the deliberative process for the selection and ratification of the transitional government. Technical assistance for drafting and ratifying a new constitution also may be appropriate.
In addition, USAID-funded governance efforts will be closely linked to USAID-supported education programs. As curriculum reform is undertaken in the education sector, USAID will encourage a curriculum that incorporates relevant context-specific messages, such as land mine awareness, human-rights awareness, civic education, and/or education for democracy. Public non-formal education can promote conflict reconciliation and trauma alleviation; radio also can provide a means for reconciliation and amelioration of differences and serve a critical distance-learning function for literacy and education interventions.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: To be determined; likely to include International Development Law Institute; U.S. NGOs and private contractors.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
306-003 Rehabilitate Afghanistan as a Nation DA ESF 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 0 2,250 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 0 2,250 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 1,000 10,250 Future Obligations 0 0 Est. Total Cost 1,000 12,500
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