The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said in a statement on Tuesday, November 18, that the Japanese Ambassador to Kabul, Kenichi Masamoto, and the agency’s representative in Afghanistan, Stephen Rodriguez, signed the grant.

The statement also added that the money will be used for 73 micro-projects and 2,100 small and medium-sized businesses.

With this, the UNDP, which is trying to improve access to financial support for women entrepreneurs through loans and entrepreneurship training, emphasized at the event that Afghanistan is still facing a severe economic crisis, the burden of which is again being placed on Afghan women.

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