Afghans Suffering from Ongoing Fatal Crises and World’s Negligence [part 2]

Afghans are paying a heavy price for the international community’s inactivity, according to humanitarian organizations operating in Afghanistan. Afghans, particularly women and girls, would be endured hardships for years to come if swift action is not taken to boost diplomatic engagement and secure longer-term sustainable assistance. Needs for humanitarian assistance are growing as a result of the gender crisis, the effects of the changing climate, the ongoing economic crisis, and the decline in aid. Poverty is almost ubiquitous.

The global community’s help can be:

Enhance Afghan’s capacity to assist everyone in need, deliver help in an effective, efficient, and fair manner, and pressure the DfA to uphold international human rights norms, including their responsibilities to all sexes of the populace, by upping social and diplomatic interactions with them.

The establishment of enduring partnerships and consistent interaction with the Department of Agriculture (DfA), supported by proficiency in negotiating humanitarian access and policy discourse, is becoming progressively crucial in tackling Afghanistan’s most essential issues.

Donations need to support more stable programming, finance, and development in order to create strong neighborhoods that are less reliant on aid in order to prevent the nation from sinking further into hardship and loneliness. Investments in market-based strategies for food value chains, climate change modification, gender-inclusive and disruptive farming, financial products and services, and women-owned small and micro enterprises should all be part of this. There are real chances to expand and scale up best practices, and humanitarian partners are progressively offering ethical and effective permanent solutions programming in Afghanistan.

In order to guarantee a moral emergency response in the nation, the preservation and maintenance of the humanitarian space should continue to be of utmost importance. Over the years, humanitarian partners have provided aid to impacted populations in accordance with humanitarian standards. We implore the world community to provide ongoing assistance.

The global community should continue to press the DfA to cooperate on matters of shared interest, such economic development, while simultaneously maintaining its demands that the government remove bureaucratic and administrative obstacles (BAIs) and allow humanitarian aid to enter the country without hindrance.

In order to ensure that collaborators have the opportunity to receive money and that humanitarian organizations can support the most marginalized and vulnerable people, it is important to fully support the Afghanistan Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) and maintain critical humanitarian funding, which includes increasing the volume and quality of funding to Afghan civil society organizations, particularly Women-Led and Women Rights Organizations (WLOs/WROs) and organizations of persons with disabilities.

Make sure that all emergency and ongoing initiatives have a strong gender focus that considers the particular requirements and rights of women and girls. Humanitarian partners require adaptable funding to maintain gender-sensitive sectoral approaches and specialized services, ensuring that the most vulnerable populations receive essential services.

In order to boost public and commercial trust in working in Afghanistan and remove the present obstacles to the inflow of funds, donor nations should keep assuring financial service providers that they can enable transactions both into and out of the country.