Afghanistan Still Waiting For Foreign Aid In 2017

MEP: As Afghanistan received well aid last year for various issues, especially humanitarian, this time again resorted to foreign countries for further help.

Afghanistan this year, called to the international community for 110 million dollars more than last year’s.

In this regard, Abdullah Abdullah, Chief Executive Officer of the National Unity Government today ( 21 January 2017) at the UN humanitarian coordination meeting in Kabul said, the Afghan government has called to the international community’s humanitarian assistance of 550 million USD.

Abdullah added that due to major problems such as an increase in IDPs due to the continuation of war and return flood of immigrants into the country, Afghanistan is in the need for more assistance in humanitarian in 2017.

According to him, the necessary assistance this year is different than last year at [$ 110 million] as last year, the international community had provided 440 million dollars in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.

Accountability for assistance

Although the international community ever before demanded a transparent accountability for these funds to determine and approve the necessary assistance to Afghanistan, but the Kabul government has announced that the government tries to use the assistance more effectively.

Chief Executive stressed that this year’s call is for the need of the Afghan people and is expected the international partners to give a positive answer in this regard.

Aid effectiveness

With all these interpretations, it is unclear how these aids are used and in which parts which does not have significant changes in the conditions of people in particular, displaced people that the government’s focus is also on the same principle.

Does the aid is only to government officials to have most of the funds for the purpose of offices and their personal matters or really taken for displaced people?

If large subsidies last year’s (440 million dollars) was spent only for displaced people and returnees, why a large number of displaced people in the worst living conditions and in the cold season with no facilities are passing their days and nights?

This comes as at the beginning of this year, the United Nations announced that more than 9 million people need humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan.