[{"bbox": [144, 152, 1084, 331], "category": "Text", "text": "The Sehatmandi project, through a single programme under ARTF has largely been successful. It improved donor coordination, increased efficiency, and brought greater transparency, fairness and accountability in the contracting approach thus leading to a more effective and efficient health system. Engagement of communities was successful in the selection, recruitment and retention of female health workers in rural and hard-to-reach areas. It is very important that female patients can access female doctors."}, {"bbox": [144, 343, 1084, 433], "category": "Text", "text": "On the downside, delays in payments negatively impacted Service Providers' ability to pay salaries, medicines and other key interventions, resulting in turns in complaints from the provinces."}, {"bbox": [144, 444, 1084, 563], "category": "Text", "text": "The past and current EU off-budget projects complemented the on-budget interventions and led to positive results such as the integration of mental health, nutrition, disability and prison health. In addition, nutrition counsellors have been trained and deployed to Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) and Essential Package for Hospital Services (EPHS) facilities."}, {"bbox": [144, 575, 1084, 814], "category": "Text", "text": "Implementation of National Immunisation Days and Sub-National Immunisation Days with oral polio vaccine and targeted use of injecting polio vaccine as part of the multi-antigen / accelerated campaigns in selected high-risk areas is very important for polio eradication. Review of the risk categorisation for high-risk areas and a continued focus on the high-risk districts is key for polio eradication programmes. Maximising reach in inaccessible areas, using all possible strategies and contingency interventions, particularly in the context of expanding polio outbreaks in inaccessible areas. Identification, mapping and coverage of high-risk mobile populations with a focus on the Southern, Eastern and South-eastern regions."}, {"bbox": [144, 826, 278, 855], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Assumptions"}, {"bbox": [184, 868, 1034, 897], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Other partners and donors are committed to continue funding of the health sector."}, {"bbox": [184, 909, 1080, 938], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The new regime has demonstrated its commitment for Polio Eradication in Afghanistan."}, {"bbox": [144, 950, 248, 977], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Education"}, {"bbox": [144, 991, 1084, 1081], "category": "Text", "text": "Due to a clear division of labour between donors in Afghanistan, the EU was not directly present as a donor in the education sector. The current situation warrants reassessing this position."}, {"bbox": [144, 1094, 278, 1122], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Assumptions"}, {"bbox": [184, 1134, 1084, 1194], "category": "List-item", "text": "* Other partners and donors are committed to continue supporting and funding the education sector and access for girls to education specifically"}, {"bbox": [184, 1206, 1084, 1265], "category": "List-item", "text": "* The new regime, at all levels, has concretely demonstrated its commitment with the education, including the support to girls' education"}, {"bbox": [144, 1277, 266, 1304], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Livelihoods"}, {"bbox": [144, 1318, 1084, 1438], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU's support to the livelihoods and the market sector has been consistent in the last 15 years, and has developed over time and built on the experience of different projects and programmes. EU support has allowed for flexibility in project delivery to directly support market development, and to be able to reach population outside government controlled regions."}, {"bbox": [144, 1450, 1084, 1570], "category": "Text", "text": "The different Republic Ministries involved had taken ownership and this increased buy in for regulatory reforms and the efficiency of the different programmes. The donor coordination was ensured by ad-hoc coordination groups chaired by relevant Ministries. The communities were involved and supportive of the actions implemented. The Community Development Councils"}, {"bbox": [1057, 1631, 1080, 1654], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "21"}]