In return for military and financial aid Afghanistan promises to meet targets in the critical and interdependent areas of security, governance, rule of law, human rights and economic and social development.
Its partners span countries in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and include groupings like the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Islamic Development Bank.
The following are key targets in the five-year plan:
Security and drugs
- Promotion of security and stability with the help of international security forces
- Disbandment of all illegal armed groups by the end of 2007
- Expansion of the Afghan National Army to a ceiling of 70,000 personnel and the national and border police to up to 62,000 combined
- Targeted eradication of poppy cultivation and intelligence-sharing with neighbouring governments to tackle drug-smuggling
- Reduction by 70 percent of the land area contaminated by mines and unexploded ordnance
- All unsafe, unserviceable and surplus ammunition to be destroyed and all stockpiled anti-personnel mines to be destroyed by the end of 2007
Governance, rule of law and human rights
- Restructuring and rationalisation of the government
- Transparent appointments for senior government, police and judiciary posts
- Ratification of the UN Convention against Corruption by the end of this year
- Anti-corruption monitoring mechanism to be in place by the end of 2008
- A census by the end of 2008, with single identity document and voter registry by the following year
- Implementation by the end of 2008 of a plan on peace, justice and reconciliation to deal with human rights violations during the past 25 years of war
- National Assembly provided with support structures
- Female participation in Afghan governance strengthened
- Land registration process
Economic and social development
- Access to safe drinking water for 90 percent of villages and sanitation to 50 percent; 40 percent of which are to be connected to a main road
- The country's ring road will be upgraded and maintained and by 2008 have connections with neighbouring countries.
- Roads to reach 40 percent of villages
- Electricity will reach at least 65 percent of households in urban areas and 25 percent in rural areas
- Basic health services will reach 90 percent of the population, with maternal mortality (currently at about 1,600 deaths for every 100,000 mothers) reduced by 15 percent
- All children under five will be immunised for preventable diseases and their mortality rates reduced by five percent
- Enrolment in primary schools will be 60 percent and 75 percent for girls and boys respectively
- Female teachers increased by 50 percent; 70 percent of teachers to have passed competency test