More than 70 delegations are expected in Geneva on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 November for the Quadrennial Donor Conference on Afghanistan.
Beyond pledges of funding, the conference is expected to enable the Afghan government and the international community to commit to common development goals for 2021-24, coordinate development cooperation, and provide financial support to the Afghan administration.
It will also be an opportunity for delegations to reiterate that their financial support is subject to conditions. One European source explained that the country should maintain the social gains made in recent years and continue its reforms, particularly in the areas of governance and the fight against corruption.
Meetings have also been organised on sustainable peace-building, institutional and societal methods of fighting corruption, and economic priorities and aid effectiveness.
This conference comes at a time when intra-Afghan negotiations are underway, the level of violence is at its highest level in five years, and the United States has announced a partial troop withdrawal.
At the last conference in 2016 in Brussels, EUR 13 billion were pledged, including EUR 5 billion by the EU and its Member States (see EUROPE 11639/13). (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)