The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced that more than 8.3 million people in Afghanistan have benefited from its development programmes since 2022.
The agency said on Monday, November 9, that it had supported 28,600 small and medium-sized enterprises under its ABADEI programme.
UNDP added that more than 64,000 jobs had been created, 51,000 of which were allocated to women.
The agency stressed that the programme is being implemented in cooperation with the European Union and Japan.
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the United Nations Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan (STFA) are also among the programme’s partners.
