Afghanistan provincial briefs : June 2011.

“June 2011”—cover page.

Summary: “These briefs provide statistics on 39 socio-economic indicators encompassing several dimensions of wellbeing, including poverty and inequality, food security, labor market outcomes, sectoral distribution of employment, gender, education, health, and access to services and infrastructure. This compendium of key indicators aims to serve three main purposes. First, it provides a snap-shot of the development performance of each province and benchmarks it to that of other provinces and of nation as whole. This comparative perspective is provided with a view to assist policy makers and other development actors in their efforts to improve development effectiveness, particularly by providing evidence to prioritize and better target interventions at the provincial level. Second, by unbundling variations in development outcomes at the sub-national level, these provincial briefs complement and enrich the aggregate description of well being presented in the Poverty Status report. Third, these indicators are expected to provide provincial baselines to be updated by future rounds of the NRVA, in addition to serving as a reference for measures obtained from other data sources. The statistics presented in the provincial briefs highlight that development outcomes in Afghanistan vary significantly from province to province….Another key theme which emerges from the provincial statistics is that the performance on different indicators vary significantly within each province.”—(Introduction, p. 1).