{"id":18289,"date":"2026-07-23T15:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/23\/undp-uncdf-expand-financial-access-businesses-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:10:22","slug":"undp-uncdf-expand-financial-access-businesses-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/23\/undp-uncdf-expand-financial-access-businesses-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UNDP and UNCDF Collaborate to Expand Financial Access for Businesses in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced a collaboration with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) to improve businesses&#8217; access to financial resources in Afghanistan, an initiative taking place amid the country&#8217;s economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, July 23, UNDP released a report emphasizing that successful businesses can play a significant role in creating prosperity, stability, and peace, and that strengthening them contributes to improving the economic situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to UNDP, supporting the people&#8217;s economy and backing commercial activities are fundamental pillars of the organization&#8217;s programs in Afghanistan. The agency identified strengthening the private sector, supporting entrepreneurship, and creating economic opportunities as vital needs for the citizens.<\/p>\n<p>This collaboration is announced at a time when Afghanistan continues to face economic recession, widespread unemployment, and increasing poverty, with many residents struggling to meet basic living needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDP and UNCDF join forces to enhance financial access for Afghan businesses amid economic crisis, focusing on entrepreneurship and private sector support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289","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=18289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}