Posted on 02/20/2021 5:03:38 AM PST by MtnClimber
report issued by Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction noted that even though the United States spent more than $787 million dollars on “gender equality projects” in Afghanistan since 2002, “harmful socio-cultural norms” kept them making major progress.
The report did note that some small advances. The number of pregnant women receiving prenatal care rose, that more women are working in healthcare and the literacy rate among women grew. However, the report also noted:
The positive story of gains across these sectors is tempered by the reality that significant barriers—including restrictive sociocultural norms and insecurity— continue to impede progress for Afghan women and girls.
• Girls’ access to education is constrained by the lack of female teachers and infrastructure, and pressures on girls to withdraw from school at puberty.
• A lack of female healthcare providers, restrictive sociocultural practices, lack of education, and prohibitive costs pose barriers to women seeking health care.
• The quality of health care and education remains a problem, and education gains have been largely at the primary school level.
• Gains across sectors have been geographically uneven, with rural women and girls experiencing significantly less improvement overall.
(Excerpt) Read more at bongino.com ...
DemocRATs seem to look for amusing ways to waste money that they did not have to earn.
This is utterly stupid.
You’re likely to find that most of the money was spent when the Republican Party controlled one or both houses of Congress.
Wonder who pocketed that money. Those people fight each other and always will. It’s tough being a woman over there and I don’t see there ways changing. Where is my check.
I was in A Stan for 2 years, good luck trying to push this chit on the people there, say what you will, but they will not tolerate some white leftist pushing western culture on to them, sorry disagree if you must.
I'll bet 90% of that money ended up in Congressional pockets. "Foreign Aid" is the biggest scam on the American taxpayer. We ship our money overseas, the foreign politicians launder it, keep their cut, and return the rest to the crooks in D.C. through Hunter Biden and others.
:: some white leftist pushing western culture on to them ::
That is not the intent of the program.
:: the United States spent more than $787 million dollars on “gender equality projects” in Afghanistan since 2002 ::
Getting this tax-payer funding into the hands of few select white leftists is the intent.
Thanks for yer service.
pressures on girls to withdraw from school at puberty.
That is a one sick “culture.”
And the expected political contributions were probably paid out of those funds.
Thanks, but I just did a Job I needed to do.
I agree, Either way its dumb, 787 million for gender equality on a nation that will probably never leave the tribal stage is pointless.
The idea probably was germinated by GW Bush, who aside from Josef Biden, has to have been the stupidest man ever to hold the office. The same dolt who was yelling about Iraqis and Afghans “thirsting for democracy” and that they “would be in San Francisco” if we didn’t fight them there. Well, I have seen the people in San Francisco and I don’t see how the Afghans or Iraqi lunatics could provide any Worse leadership than chief prosecutor Chesa Boudin, son of terrorist murderers, Mayor London Breed or the seven radicals on the Board of Supervisors taking Abe Lincoln’s name off schools.
No we didn’t. Congress approved $787,000,000 but a large portion of that found it’s way back to the pockets of the politicians in Washington.
:: I just did a Job I needed to do. ::
Good attitude.
Just remember, you did that job on behalf of (at least) 80 million American patriots like me.
Have a cuppa covfefe, soldier.
[My son-in-law took 3 tours to Ghanny walking next to a tank. Big Red 1]
or not
Spent 2 years in Kabul. Gender programs were an absolute waste.
We built Women’s police dorms and facilities that the Minister of Interior ordered not to be used because of security issues.
Another good one was from the state department that spent +$50M on creating a handful of jobs for women.
Correction I was a civilian in support of the military doing IT and Commo stuff.
John Sopko is a media whore, but in this case SIGAR has it right. I’m surprised it’s under $1B that was wasted on gender issues.
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