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Cash Assistance Programme | 2021 Delivery | Afghanistan

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Kabul, Afghanistan ;

Pages 4p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Synopsis (short abstract) The document provides key information on the achievements using cash transfers in the FAO programme in 2021 in Afghanistan. Nearly 845 000 people living in the rural areas benefitted from FAO cash assistance in the country. FAO has been using unconditional cash transfers and cash-for-work as modalities to provide food insecure households an income support addressing their basis food security and nutrition needs. The document explains who is receiving the cash transfers and the kind of infrastructures rehabilitated through cash-work modality which benefit the whole community.

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