SDG Status Gaps Solutions

Goals
According to the The lack of education, In order to reduce the
latest survey of Asian livelihoods and access to poverty rate of
Development Bank, basic services contribute to Afghanistan, the current
No 49.4% of the the poverty experienced by government must focus
poverty population of the Afghan people. on strengthening
Afghanistan, lived agriculture, investing in
below the poverty line human development, and
in 2020. managing and mitigating
risks that increase poor
people’s vulnerability.
Overall, more than 90 Afghanistan’s economic Afghanistan’s
percent of Afghans collapse was caused in part humanitarian crisis cannot
have been suffering by a collapse in most be effectively addressed
Zero from some form of families’ incomes following unless the United
Hunger food insecurity since the Taliban takeover and States and other
last August, skipping foreign donors’ decisions to governments ease
meals or whole days suspend outside budgetary restrictions on the
of eating and support for numerous country’s banking sector
engaging in extreme government, humanitarian, to facilitate legitimate
coping and development sectors, economic activity and
mechanisms to pay including education and humanitarian aid.
for food, including health.
sending children to
work.
Afghanistan is The health sector is facing The health system of the
Good currently on a health significant barriers to country must be funded
Health emergency. To delivering holistic services and immediate actions
and Well- address it, 14 million to the Afghan people, must be done in order to
being people, including 7.5 especially women and mitigate the current
million children and children, resulting in situation.
3.1 million women are fragmentation and
currently targeted for increased vulnerability,
health assistance, out particularly in underserved
of which 8.4 million areas.
have already been
reached in the first six
months of 2023.
 An estimated 3.7 The underlining reasons for A strong Education
million children are low girls’ enrolment is System is key to getting
Quality out of school in insecurity and traditional more children in school,
Education Afghanistan. 60% of norms and practices related keeping them there, and
them are girls. to girls’ and women’s role in helping them to become
the society. healthy and responsible
citizens.

In Afghanistan, the Women in Afghanistan lack Equal rights and laws

income of an average the equal treatment which must be passed in order
woman is less than are given to men. to give women in
Gender 16% than of that of an Afghanistan confidence to
Equality average man, be included in
according to 2021 engagement in public
data. Women in matters and various
Afghanistan are human activities.
outnumbered five to
one by men in sectors
that require higher
skills, according to
2021 data.

References:
Asian Development Bank. 2023, April. Poverty Data: Afghanistan.
https://www.adb.org/where-we-work/afghanistan/poverty

Giving Compass. 2023, October 1712. Gender Inequality in Afghanistan.

https://givingcompass.org/article/facts-on-gender-inequality-in-afghanistan

World Health Organization. 2023, August 18. Afghanistan's health system suffers critical
underfunding, calls for donor support. https://www.who.int/news/item/18-08-2023-
afghanistan-s-health-system-suffers-critical-underfunding--calls-for-donor-support

Human Rights Watch. 2022, August 4. Afghanistan: Economic Crisis Underlies Mass
Hunger. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/04/afghanistan-economic-crisis-underlies-
mass-hunger

Unicef. Education providing quality education for all.

https://www.unicef.org/afghanistan/education