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Covenants of citizen Program Officially inaugurated

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(Last Updated On: October 24, 2022)

2Afghan officials during a gathering have inaugurated the replacement of the National Solidarity program called covenant’s of citizens officially, the current program will last for 10 years, and its implementable within 34 provinces of Afghanistan with costing of $ 1 billion.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani talked about the implementation of the program in insecure areas and insisted that each institution involved within the programs will be accountable for one penny allocated.

Covenants of citizen Program is good alternative and replacement for National solidarity program with $ 1 billion fund, it will be implemented within the 12 thousand villages of 34 provinces of Afghanistan incoming 10 years.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said,” The following program will be practiced without any discrimination, I assure it will be implemented even in unrest areas, from now onwards all our upcoming programs will be Nationwide.”

Further the President went on and insisted over the significant monitoring of the program and spending of its fund.

He said,” We can’t ensure transparency without monitoring; the biggest corruption is that we make poor people to borrow some money to access needed services.”

The General Director of World Bank Robert J Sam in Afghanistan urged that the following program will help poverty to be decrease and people can have access to good services.

He said,” World Bank board will discuss $ 100 million grants with Afghanistan officials next week the following program will decrease poverty and enable Afghans to access good services.”

Meanwhile Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah insisted over the close monitoring of the program .

He said,” the main objectives of the following program is to decrease poverty, unemployment, and empowering of women.”

Meanwhile Minister of Finance Iklil Hakimi said,” the importance of the program is to decrease poverty help displaced people, migrants and widows.”

“ covenant’s citizen program will pave the way for accessing health training services, improving of Agriculture and providing drinkable water Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development Naseer Ahamd Durani said,”

The covenant’s citizen program will provide jobs for 66190 Afghans, World Bank urged in the first phase will enable 8,5 million Afghans to access the basic services, and 3, 4 villagers will also be accessing drinkable water within the 12 thousand villages.

Reported by Fawad Nassiri

 

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Commerce ministry inks 10 MoUs to boost development of small and medium-sized businesses

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(Last Updated On: April 19, 2024)

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry said Thursday it has signed cooperation agreements with ten institutions to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, said: “In the implementation of projects, we must pay special attention to our activities and actions and try to make useful use of the projects according to the requirements and benefit the beneficiaries.”

These ten institutions are to present their projects, the total value of which is around over $1.1 million. The projects will be carried out in Kabul, Baghlan, Ghor, Herat, Logar, Nangarhar, Balkh, Badakhshan and Jawzjan provinces and provide direct jobs for about 1,000.

To date, the ministry has signed MoUs for 72 projects in total, collectively valued at about $53.6 million.

These agreements have been signed with domestic and foreign companies for the establishment of small and medium-sized businesses.

In accordance with the principles and laws of the Islamic Emirate and prioritizing the implementation of projects for immigrants and returnees and internally displaced people, the ministry said 635,865 people will benefit through jobs directly and over 4.3 million will benefit indirectly in 25 provinces once these projects are implemented.

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Export volume totals over $140 million in last month of 1402

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(Last Updated On: April 17, 2024)

The National Statistics and Information Authority (NSIA) confirmed Tuesday that in the last month of solar year 1402, (March 2024) Afghanistan’s exports totaled $141.1 million and imports totaled $789.6 million.

This was down from $174 million for exports in the same period in 1401. However, imports increased by $99.2 million in 1402, up from $690.4 million.

Most exports in the last month of 1402 went to Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates, while in the last month of 1401 exports went to Pakistan, India and China.

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Afghanistan-Kazakhstan chamber of commerce opens in Herat

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(Last Updated On: April 15, 2024)

The Ministry of Interior said the governor of Herat province Islam Jar met with Alim Khan Yasin Gildaye, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Afghanistan, to discuss various issues around trade.

According to the ministry, the two sides discussed the expansion of trade facilities, increasing the volume of trade exchanges between traders of the two countries, reducing customs tariffs, solving the challenges of traders and issuing visas to them.

The Afghanistan-Kazakhstan Chamber of Commerce has been opened in Herat in order to facilitate and increase trade between the two countries.

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