World Bank Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) 2018-2020
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The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, ARTF, was established in 2002. It was until 2021 the main vehicle for international donors to support statebuilding, service delivery and governance in Afghanistan. After the Taliban takeover in August 2021 funds are no longer channeled through the state structures.
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The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, ARTF, was established in 2002. It was until 2021 the main vehicle for international donors to support statebuilding, service delivery and governance in Afghanistan. After the Taliban takeover in August 2021 funds are no longer channeled through the state structures.
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This Conclusion on performance is based on reporting from the individual ARTF-financed projects which Sida has decided to follow more closely, as well as the overall ARTF results report - the annual Scorecard for 2020. EQRA The EQRA project aimed to increase equitable access to primary and secondary education, particularly for girls, in selected lagging provinces, and to improve learning conditions in Afghanistan. The project, financed jointly by the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) and Global Partnership on Education, supported the implementation of National Education Strategic Plan III over the period 201821. The project included 4 components: Component 1: Increasing Equitable Access to Basic Education Especially for Girls in Selected Lagging Provinces (sub-components focused on school infrastructure, school grants, and Community Based Education expansion). Component 2: Improving Learning Conditions (sub-components focused on teacher training, development of curriculum and learning materials, and delivery of textbooks) Component 3: Strengthening Education Sector Planning Capacity and Transparency (sub-components focused on Education Management Information System - (EMIS), teacher recruitment, and budget planning) Component 4: Technical Assistance (sub-components focused on technical Assistance, Early Childhood Development, and Covid-19 response). In 2020, Ministry of Education met 3 (school construction, school grants, and textbook distribution) out of 5 Disbursement Linked Indicators and partially met the other two linked to expansion of community based education and EMIS). During 2020 implementation was negatively affected by the COVID-19 related restrictions as well as changes to the political leadership of the Ministry of Education and the ensuing structural reform of the Ministry. Incentive Programme - Development Policy Grant The 2020 IP-DPG achieved all but one of nearly 40 agreed upon policy actions within the agreed upon time frame. The tranche release conditions (the actions needed from government to access the disbursement from the programme) were all based on the policy and institutional reform priorities of the Afghanistan National Peace and Development Framework (ANPDF). Some of the most important results achieved cumulatively since 2018 are the following: E-MONEY/E-PAYMENT. Infrastructure and a regulatory framework have been established for electronic payments, and payment of customs duties from commercial banks to central bank took place during 2020. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. Computerized testing was implemented for recruitment in grades 14, reducing opportunities for corruption in hiring. Legal changes did allow female-only advertisements, quotas, and additional scoring in selections for women. BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT REFORM. Insolvency law reform contributed to Afghanistan achieving the largest improvement in scores of any country in the 2019 Doing Business Report. ENERGY UTILITY REFORM. Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, the national power utility, has achieved measurable reductions in technical losses. Transaction costs in acquiring connections have declined. Electricity bills of 2.4 billion afghanis previously pending with the ministries were cleared. LAND REFORM. The administrative system of land management was being rolled out in Herat. At least 20,000 occupancy certificates have been issued to informal occupants of government-owned land. PUBLIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT. The public investment framework was transformed and all projects were required to undergo basic strategic fit screening, and all large projects (over US$7.5 million) required to undergo full economic analysis. This was being effectively implemented with three-quarters of large projects in the 2020 budget having undergone economic analysis. TAX REFORM. Under reforms supported by the IP-DPGs, e-filing and e-payment were being effectively rolled out. All large taxpayers did at the end of 2020 have the option for e-filing, substantially reducing compliance and transaction costs and reducing scope for corruption. FISCAL TRANSPARENCY. The Ministry of Finance published full revenue data on its website every two weeks. Minutes of cash committee meetings were published along with cash reports. This represents an unprecedented level of fiscal transparency. Citizens' Charter Afghanistan Project (CCAP) The focus of CCAP in 2020 was on delivering essential services to communities, creating jobs, and providing cash to the poorest households. An additional 2300 rural and urban communities received support from CCAP to complete small-scale infrastructure projects. The cumulative figure for communities that have received improved access to clean water, irrigation, roads, and electricity was hence increased to 4895. Through infrastructure works and maintenance construction cash grants, CCAP generated over 4 million labor days in 2020. This brought the cumulative total to over 8,9 million labour days created through labour-intensive public works and short-term job employment for the poorest by the end of 2020. According to surveys undertaken by the Asia Foundation since 2007, the Community Development Councils (first established under the National Solidarity Programme, a predecessor of the CCAP) have consistently been named as trusted local institutions by the Afghan people. This must in it self be seen as a positive result, as one of the objectives of the CCAP is to strengthen the CDCs to function as local democratic institutions. Whether or not this positive feelings towards the CDCs were continued in 2020 is not clear as Covid-19 prohibited the Asia foundation for the first time in 15 years to conduct a full-scale value survey. Women's Economic Empowerment Rural Development Programme (WEE-RDP), the focus of programme is on social empowerment of women through participation in community-level Self Help Groups (SHGs), Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), and Enterprise Groups (EGs). The project has had a somewhat slow start, but in 2020 it was finally present in the originally planned 76 districts. The results from 2020 were still fairly activity oriented as the account below shows. The events of August 2021 will make the conditions for activates geared at women's economic empowerment much more difficult. The programme has along with all other ARTF programmes been paused in 2021. In 2020, about 2000 new VSLAs and over 25 000 new SHGs were mobilized, over 82 percent of which are womens groups. As of end of 2020, WEE-RDP and its predecessor Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Project, had together cumulatively mobilized over 40 000 groups and nearly 460 000 Afghans out which nearly 80 percent were women. At the end of 2020, these groups had saved a total amount of over 660 million afghanis (or over USD 8,6 million). The project has transferred nearly USD 3 million to communities in the form of seed capital grants. By leveraging their own internally generated savings and the external seed capital grant received from the project, the groups (SHGs and VSLAs combined) have disbursed a total amount of about 1.3 billion afghanis (nearly US$17.5 million) to their members. At the end of 2020 the project had 1500 registered active Enterprise Groups. These consisted of over 10 000 entrepreneurs out of which 88 percent were women. It is possible that these groups could continue to develop with the support of for example the UN Area Based Approach for Development Emergency Initiatives. CASA-CSP aimed to benefit 712 communities in seven provinces located within the CASA-1000 transmission lines four-kilometer wide Corridor of Influence, which are affected during the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the transmission line, but which will not be able to access electricity directly from the high voltage transmission line. The project had a very slow start due to the fact that it took much longer than anticipated to establish the route for the transmission line which naturally delayed the selection of the affected communities. Partially as a response to the slow start, the project was reconstructed in November 2020 and USD 10 million was redirected to the GoIRA's Covid-19 response. Results so far are purely activity based, such as community mobilisation (to assess what needs the communities had relation to electricity or other economic infrastructure). No outcome oriented results have been reported for this project.
The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, ARTF has since its inception in 2002 been an important tool for development partners to support the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan. The ARTF is Afghanistans main multi-donor mechanism for on-budget financing of civilian and development expenditures. It provides a mechanism for predictable on-budget financing of GoIRA development priorities within a robust fiduciary and monitoring framework; a platform for policy dialogue on key reforms with the government; and a means to coordinate support from international partners in line with an agreed financing strategy. Every investment project has an outcome that normally corresponds to the goal of the relevant National Priority Program. These are the project development objectives for the projects that Sida follows more closely: - Citizens' Charter Afghanistan Project: to improve the delivery of core infrastructure and social services to participating communities through strengthened Community Development Councils (CDCs). These services are part of a minimum service standards package that the government is committed to delivering to the citizens of Afghanistan. - EQRA: to increase equitable access to general education in disadvantaged provinces, especially for girls, improve the quality of the teaching-learning process and strengthen the Ministry of Educations planning capacity and accountability for results. - Women's economic empowerment: increase social and economic empowerment of poor rural women in selected communities. - Energy: to provide access to electricity or other social and economic infrastructure services to communities in the project area in order to strengthen community support for CASA-1000 transmission line. - The incentive program under the recurrent cost window: strengthening the policy framework to support state effectiveness, private investment, and social inclusion; and improving the policy and institutional framework for public financial management.
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