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Standard Project Report 2016
Finding a way in — overcoming access constraints
Insecurity across the country remained a challenge for WFP programme delivery in 2016. The most insecure
provinces with a high programme concentration included Helmand and Uruzgan provinces in the south, Kunduz and
Baghlan in the north, Farah, Faryab and Badghis in the west, Khost, Paktya, Ghazni and Paktika in the southeast,
the province of Ghor in the center of the country and Badakhshan in the northeast.
WFP Afghanistan foresaw the effect of insecurity at the launch of the PRRO late in 2013, when it was clear that the
withdrawal of the NATO forces in 2014 would create a security vacuum in some parts of the co