[{"bbox": [144, 151, 1084, 355], "category": "Text", "text": "tracks is deemed advisable by the UN while fostering a “One UN” approach. Intense work is underway to simplify the UN offer as much as possible under the authority of the Resident Coordinator. While different options to channel funds are being considered, the recommendation at UN level is for setting-up a new multi-donor, multi-partner UN Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan under the authority of the Deputy Secretary General, with a board that would decide on priorities. The UN has in-depth experience of such mechanisms, in Yemen for example, including accountability mechanisms."}, {"bbox": [144, 366, 1084, 715], "category": "Text", "text": "The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has proposed an ‘Area-Based Programme for Early Recovery and Stabilisation’ that would constitute its Afghanistan country programme in the coming years, pivoting its engagement towards a decentralised and area-based portfolio of projects allowing direct work with beneficiary communities through civil society and micro and small enterprises. The Area-based Programme would be centred around cash-based interventions and focus on sustaining essential services, protection of livelihoods, investment in climate-resilient, local community infrastructure and – to ensure full ownership and conflict-sensitive interventions – community planning and social cohesion; it would be centred around cash-based interventions, employment generation (Cash for Work), and support to women-led businesses in the informal sector, social enterprises and enterprises expanding to new areas (Cash for Markets). UN agencies will contribute to the activities of the programme on the basis of their respective mandates."}, {"bbox": [144, 725, 1084, 1074], "category": "Text", "text": "In parallel, the resumption of medium and long-term activities under the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) managed by the World Bank still needs to be clarified. On 30 November, the World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved the transfer out of USD 280 million from unallocated funds to UN agencies and invited the Bank to present a strategy for the medium term. The ARTF was originally conceived in 2002 as a multi-donor trust fund to support immediate stabilisation and reconstruction needs in Afghanistan through a coordinated financing mechanism. It has since then evolved to become the main vehicle for multi-donor, on-budget support for the Government's national programmes reform agenda, fiscal sustainability and the prioritisation and delivery of the national development strategy. The ARTF was supported by 34 donors (of which 18 are currently active) and administered by the World Bank. Its three-tier governance framework is composed of a Steering Committee, a Management Committee and the World Bank as an Administrator."}, {"bbox": [144, 1085, 1084, 1260], "category": "Text", "text": "Other stakeholders include the implementing NGOs, UN agencies, other development partners, humanitarian partners, civil society organisations (e.g. patient and health workers' representative organisations) and the private healthcare sector, for which unhindered access and ability to deliver will be key and monitored as a benchmark for further engagement. At the community level, health committees are important stakeholders who will represent the rights-holders voice (people)."}, {"bbox": [144, 1271, 1084, 1360], "category": "Text", "text": "**At EU level,** the EU will promote a coordinated response with EU Member States, in pursuit of a direct basic needs and livelihoods assistance approach closely coordinated with humanitarian efforts in a nexus approach."}, {"bbox": [1058, 1640, 1084, 1664], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "12"}]