The UN Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan (UNSTFA) says it has supported nearly four million Afghan women and girls during more than four years of Taliban rule, backing projects aimed at empowering women across the country.
In a statement on Thursday, March 12, UNSTFA said it had supported women with initiatives designed to bring change to their communities since the Taliban takeover. The fund said it values women’s participation in sustainable development.
Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady, a member of the Afghanistan Special Fund in Switzerland, told Afghanistan International in October that the fund had generated more than $500 million in returns so far. He said the funds’ assets, which previously stood at $3.5 billion, had risen to about $4.02 billion.
The fund had earlier said it assisted about one million people in Afghanistan in 2025, half of them women.
The United States transferred $3.5 billion of Afghanistan’s central bank assets to a trust fund in Switzerland to help support the Afghan economy.
