{"id":50512,"date":"2022-11-24T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/24\/uk-aid-to-afghanistan-entrenched-corruption-and-injustice-report-finds"},"modified":"2022-11-24T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T00:01:12","slug":"uk-aid-to-afghanistan-entrenched-corruption-and-injustice-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50512","title":{"rendered":"UK aid to Afghanistan entrenched corruption and injustice, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government watchdog says \u00a33.5bn aid in 20 years to 2020 failed to achieve aim of stabilising Afghan government<\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s \u00a33.5bn aid to Afghanistan between 2000 and 2020 was implicated in corruption and human rights abuses and failed to achieve its primary objective of stabilising the country\u2019s government, an assessment by the UK government\u2019s aid watchdog has found.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the two-decade aid project as the UK\u2019s single most ambitious programme of state building, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) says decisions to spend aid on counterinsurgency operations were flawed, adding that efforts to reduce gender inequality are likely to be wiped out by the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/24\/uk-aid-to-afghanistan-entrenched-corruption-and-injustice-report-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government watchdog says \u00a33.5bn aid in 20 years to 2020 failed to achieve aim of stabilising Afghan governmentThe UK\u2019s \u00a33.5bn aid to Afghanistan between 2000 and 2020 was implicated in corruption and human rights abuses and failed to achieve its primar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,247,59,61,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-global-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50513,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50512\/revisions\/50513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}