Poletics in Afghanistan

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Overview Funding for Afghanistan Reconstruction Status of Funds Security Governance Economic and Social Development 67 70 72 86 120 150

Photo on previous page Secretary of State Kerry stands with Afghan presidential candidates Ghani, center, and Abdullah, right, after announcing a plan to resolve the disputed outcome of their runoff election. (State Department photo)

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AFGHANISTAN RECONSTRUCTION

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RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE

OVERVIEW

The following section summarizes the status of U.S. funding and describes developments SIGAR observed this quarter in the security, governance, and economic and social sectors of the reconstruction effort in Afghanistan. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2014 provided an additional $7.5 billion for Afghanistan relief and reconstruction for fiscal year (FY) 2014, bringing the cumulative total appropriated since FY 2002 to approximately $104.1 billion. On June 26, 2014, President Obama submitted his updated FY 2015 overseas contingency operations (OCO) budget request for the Departments of Defense and State to Congress. The addition of the updated OCO request brings the total amount requested for the seven major reconstruction funds for FY 2015 to $5.8 billion—a 9% decrease from the amount appropriated these funds for FY 2014. DOD requested $4.11 billion for the FY 2015 Afghanistan Security Forces Fund (ASFF). The majority of the funding is to sustain the 195,000-strong Afghan National Army, the 157,000-strong Afghan National Police (ANP), and 30,000 Afghan Local Police. The request provides funding for Coalition advisors to focus on Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) capability gaps and improving logistics, medical, and counter-improvised-explosivedevice systems; and to purchase light air-support and basic-training aircraft for the Afghan Air Force. DOD is no...