{"id":17573,"date":"2026-07-14T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/14\/women-laghman-skills-income-german-supported-climate-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:08:21","slug":"women-laghman-skills-income-german-supported-climate-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/14\/women-laghman-skills-income-german-supported-climate-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Laghman Gain Skills and Income Through German-Supported Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has announced that a number of women in Laghman province have been engaged in climate-resilient infrastructure projects with support from the German Development Bank (KfW), gaining practical skills and sources of income.<\/p>\n<p>According to the organization, these women work in assembling and installing gabions\u2014structures made using metal cages filled with stones to prevent soil erosion and reduce flood risks along rivers and vulnerable areas.<\/p>\n<p>Laghman is among the provinces that have faced seasonal floods in recent years, with some areas considered vulnerable to natural disasters. Implementing such projects can simultaneously reduce environmental hazards and provide short-term job opportunities for local residents.<\/p>\n<p>The International Organization for Migration emphasized that this program aims to strengthen the resilience of local communities against climate change and support the economic participation of women in rural areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women in Afghanistan&#8217;s Laghman province gain skills and income through German-backed climate-resilient infrastructure projects supported by IOM and KfW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}