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NEEPRA was initiated in July 2003 with the objectives of assisting the government in providing targeted social protection and in the improvement of key rural access infrastructure for improving livelihoods of the rural poor in Afghanistan through: (i) the provision of emergency short-term employment opportunities for the poor on labor-based rural access infrastructure improvement subprojects; and (ii) technical assistance for the implementation of NEEP. A secondary objective of the project is to repair key rural access infrastructure and assist the government in mobilizing donor support for its National Emergency Employment Program. The project will achieve this objective through labor-based rural access infrastructure subprojects, and technical assistance to NEEP.About 1,400 km of roads and 3,000m of cross drainage structures (including bridges), as well as eight airstrips/airfields (Faizabad, Ghor, Faryab, Zaranj, Gardez, Badghis, Farah, and Kabul) have been rehabilitated, against targets of 2,000 km of road and 2,300m of cross-drainage structures. A minimum of 2.2 million unskilled labor days of short-term employment were generated against the original target of 6 million labor days. Physical progress of works under NEEPRA is about 95 percent.