With support from the World Bank and USAID, UNICEF distributed cash to 86,000 families with at least one girl between 12 and 17 years old. Each family received three separate tranches of payment of $120.00 to cover opportunity costs related to education in two provinces: Nuristan in the east, and Jawzjan in the north. While USAID funded the cash transfers and associated costs in both provinces, the World Bank contribution was used exclusively in Jawzjan province as a top-up to the USAID grant. Read More