Naheed Sarabi

Apr 20, 2023 | brookings.edu | William Byrd |Kate Clark |Madiha Afzal |Naheed Sarabi

Twitter Join the conversation on Twitter using #AfghanCrises Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, 40 million Afghans have been dealing with both a repressive regime and unprecedented economic hardship.

Apr 5, 2023 | brookings.edu | Naheed Sarabi

In 2023, concurring economic, social, and environmental crises are disproportionately affecting fragile states, creating a grim outlook for achieving the SDGs by 2030. The Global Peace Index Report for 2022 indicates deteriorating global peacefulness since 2014, with a growing gap between the most peaceful and least peaceful countries. SDG progress has been either stagnating or declining in more than half of the fragile states.

Feb 14, 2023 | brookings.edu | George Ingram |Naheed Sarabi

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has under review a draft revision of its 2012 resilience policy for fragile and conflict environments. As reported in the OECD’s “States of Fragility 2022,” fragility has been rising in recent years and is present across a diversity of country contexts. Of the 60 countries identified as fragile, 23 are low-income, and 33 are middle-income.