Afghanistan

Preliminary Needs Assessment Report

More than two decades of conflict and three years of drought have led to widespread human suffering and massive displacement of people in Afghanistan.

Many parts of the country are vulnerable to famine, the infrastructure base has been destroyed or degraded, and human resources have been depleted. State institutions have become largely nonfunctional and the economy increasingly fragmented.

The social fabric has been weakened considerably, and human rights undermined, with women and minorities being the principal sufferers.

Resolution 1378 of the UN Security Council provides the opportunity and a framework for recovery and reconstruction efforts to buttress the political settlement. While Afghans themselves need to manage the process of reconstruction, the international community is committed to help.

To this end, a Steering Committee of donor governments requested the Asian Development Bank (ADB), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and World Bank (WB) to urgently conduct a preliminary needs assessment for the reconstruction of Afghanistan, ahead of a Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo on 21-22 January 2002.

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Contents

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Acknowledgements and Executive Summary

1. Introduction

2. The Development Framework

3. Security

4. Governance and Economic Management

5. Social Protection, Health, And Education

6. Infrastructure

7. Agriculture, Food Security, And Natural Resource Management

8. Cost Estimates

Appendix: Immediate Actions [ PDF: 66kb | 7 pages ]