{"id":39,"date":"2026-07-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/knowledge-hub\/afghanistans-freezing-winter\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:00:00","slug":"afghanistans-freezing-winter","status":"publish","type":"drg_publication","link":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/knowledge-hub\/afghanistans-freezing-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s Freezing Winter: Humanitarian Crisis and the Taliban\u2019s Ban on Women Aid Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This publication draws on interviews, household surveys and a review of policy documents to examine how the current crisis is experienced by those most affected by it, and what it means for policy and programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key findings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Restrictions on women\u2019s work and education compound economic hardship for entire households.<\/li><li>Humanitarian access depends increasingly on local negotiation and trusted intermediaries.<\/li><li>Programmes designed with communities are more resilient to sudden policy change.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recommendations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donors and implementing partners should invest in long-term, flexible funding, prioritise the participation of women in programme design, and support local research capacity so that evidence continues to inform decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"template":"","drg_publication_type":[5],"class_list":["post-39","drg_publication","type-drg_publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","drg_publication_type-policy-brief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drg_publication\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drg_publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/drg_publication"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drg_publication\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"drg_publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drg_publication_type?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}