{"id":4405,"date":"2025-12-29T08:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/29\/undp-afghans-return-2025-economic-needs\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:20:22","slug":"undp-afghans-return-2025-economic-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/29\/undp-afghans-return-2025-economic-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"UNDP Reports Over 2.8 Million Afghans Returned Home in 2025, Highlighting Urgent Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced that more than 2.8 million Afghan citizens returned to the country in 2025, highlighting urgent livelihood and service needs in host areas.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, with support from the UN Special Team for Afghanistan (UN STFA), nine UN-affiliated agencies, including the UNDP, have launched programs to support families in eastern provinces of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>These aid efforts include providing solar energy for homes and vocational training for young people\u2014initiatives aimed at reducing economic pressure on returning families and strengthening local capacities.<\/p>\n<p>International organizations emphasize that the large-scale return of Afghan citizens, without sustainable access to basic services and job opportunities, could create new social and economic challenges and requires continuous coordination of humanitarian and development assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDP reports over 2.8 million Afghans returned in 2025, stressing urgent economic and service needs in eastern Afghanistan&#8217;s host communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","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=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}