KABUL (Pajhwok): International donors have agreed to transfer $280m from a frozen trust fund to the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF to support nutrition and health sectors in Afghanistan, according to a statement on Saturday.
The World Bank-administered Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund will this year give $180m to WFP to scale up food security and nutrition operations and $100m to UNICEF to provide essential health services, the bank said in a statement on Friday. The source said the fund would reach Afghanistan within a month.
Using reconstruction trust fund money and channelling it through the WFP and UNICEF . . .
