The UN reports that the international community has supported the Afghan Government to make progress in the following areas, amongst others.

This year:

• 6m children are enrolled in school, against 1m in 2001.
• women have opportunities they couldn't dream of under the Taliban. This year, 35% of schoolchildren are girls and 330,000 girls started school for the first time, unprecedented in Afghan history. We see Afghan women again contributing to Afghan society, for example a quarter of seats in the lower house of Parliament are held by women.
• over 13,000km of roads have been built, improved or rehabilitated
• 36,000 Afghan babies will survive who would not have survived in 2002
• 85% of the Afghan population has access to healthcare, against 9% in 2003
• 75% of the Afghan population has access to clean water. 3m people have benefited from rural water and sanitation projects since 2003.
• 75% of Afghans have access to telecommunications.

So far:

• GDP per capita has increased by over 70% since 2002
• 60,000 ANA soldiers and 80,000 ANP have been trained
• 2.5m Afghans have received some form of social support.
• 20,000 elected Community Development Councils are allocating modest grants to help local communities.