The Department for International Development (DFID) has recently launched a £36 million, four-year programme called Supporting Employment and Enterprise Development (SEED), which aims to create 20,000 jobs and raise the incomes of 200,000 people by 2013.
SEED expects to create 20,000 jobs as follows:
Jobs created from lending to small and medium sized enterprises: 2,000
Jobs created through vocational training: 3,000
Jobs created through support to the World Bank's Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Programme (AREDP): 10,000
Jobs created through the new challenge fund: 5,000
SEED expects to raise the incomes of 200,000 people as follows:
Incomes improved through AREDP interventions: 100,000
Individuals who benefit from improved business practices and hence increased incomes as a result of challenge fund support: 100,000