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Health
Health in Afghanistan: Persistent Challenges and the Need for Strategic Interventions:
Afghanistan’s healthcare system remains critically under-resourced, struggling to provide essential services to its population. The situation is particularly dire in the southern provinces, including Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Urozgan, and Nimroz, where maternal and reproductive health services are severely inadequate. High maternal mortality rates, limited access to skilled birth attendants, and a shortage of medical supplies continue to threaten the well-being of women and children.
In provinces like Kandahar, where OSHR operates, healthcare infrastructure is overstretched, and healthcare service delivery is concerning . Women in rural areas face significant barriers in accessing antenatal and postnatal care, leading to preventable complications and deaths.
OSHR’s Midwives Internship and Basic Reproductive Health Access Initiative directly addresses these challenges by strengthening maternal healthcare across Kandahar. By deploying midwife interns, we aim to provide lifesaving reproductive health services to over 24,640 women within 10 months. Our initiative focuses on antenatal care, safe deliveries, family planning, and reproductive health education—critical components in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality.
To build a sustainable healthcare system, it is crucial to invest in local capacity-building, health workforce development, and community-based healthcare solutions. OSHR remains committed to improving maternal and reproductive health access in southern Afghanistan, ensuring that women receive the care they need despite the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
Food Security
The origin of food insecurity in Afghanistan is low employment rate and opportunities, considerably low wages and household income, insufficient agriculture and livestock production, insufficient water resources for agriculture and access to drinking water—enhanced by the displacement and complex factors of conflict and insecurity. OSHR is a national partner of Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC), orienting its actions to bring together national and international humanitarian partners, improving the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance on the lives of crises affected population of Afghanistan.
Emergency Response
Afghanistan during the last four decades has endured a devastating conflict and frequent natural disasters like flooding, earthquakes and avalanches taking a toll on the children and vulnerable communities of Afghanistan. The emergencies has made the children more vulnerable to malnutrition, disease and violence. The multifaceted situation in the country with immense food insecurity necessitates increased humanitarian needs, with each day passing. The IDPs who find it difficult to return native communities create new demands of services, as they require new setup of living and livelihood both for IDPs and host communities. OSHR always reaches the mentioned population having applied its localized approaches—making it possible to provide children, women and marginalized communities affected by emergencies with safe water and sanitation, psychosocial support, nutrition and protection. OSHR considers it as a first priority to actively participate with WASH, ES/NFI and FSAC clusters, which ensure essential coordination and mechanisms in emergencies and crises i.e. to support partners to plan and response effectively and make population to recover from emergencies.
Child Protection
Internal displacement of more than one million people and inadequate protection services particularly in remote and conflict zones there is a widespread failure to promote and protect the right of children. More than 50% of Afghanistan’s population is of age under 18, facing severe situations of conflicts, abuse, displacement, poverty and detrimental social norms and practices.
Education
Decades of conflict besides other devastating consequences has considerably spoiled the education system of Afghanistan. With 9 million children in schools by now, the continuous armed conflict, make the education a distant dream for many Afghan children. OSHR mission is to advocate and strive for the Afghan children right to education, those live in remote, hard to reach and conflict zones.
Social & Economy Development
Social and Economic Development: The Ongoing Crisis in Afghanistan
Four decades of war, conflict, and instability have severely hindered Afghanistan’s social and economic progress. Thus, Afghanistan remains in a state of economic and social crisis for almost four decades.
In the southern provinces, poverty, unemployment and fragile economic status has further deepen vulnerabilities. OSHR responds by promoting sustainable livelihoods, women-led income-generating activities, and vocational training to empower communities and reduce aid dependency.
For lasting impact, long-term investments in skills development, local entrepreneurship, and inclusive economic policies are essential. OSHR remains committed to fostering resilience and sustainable development in Afghanistan’s most vulnerable regions.
Environment
Environmental Challenges in Afghanistan: The Need for Sustainable Solutions
Since 2001, Afghanistan has taken steps to address environmental issues, including establishing the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) in 2005 and enacting the Environmental Law in 2007. However, decades of conflict, combined with droughts and earthquakes, have severely degraded the country’s once-rich natural resources and biodiversity.
In the southern provinces, deforestation, desertification, and water scarcity threaten livelihoods, particularly for vulnerable communities relying on agriculture. OSHR recognizes the urgent need for sustainable environmental solutions and integrates climate resilience into its programs, including kitchen gardening, sustainable livelihoods, and water conservation efforts.
To rebuild Afghanistan’s environment, targeted interventions in reforestation, water management, and eco-friendly livelihoods are essential. OSHR remains committed to promoting sustainability and resilience in the face of ongoing environmental challenges
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