{"id":1984,"date":"2026-10-09T00:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T00:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2026-10-09T00:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T00:59:15","slug":"ocha-afghanistans-education-sector-needs-160-million-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/10\/09\/ocha-afghanistans-education-sector-needs-160-million-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"OCHA: Afghanistan\u2019s Education Sector Needs $160 Million in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bareen Media &#8211;<\/strong> The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Afghanistan\u2019s education sector needs $160 million in funding for 2026, but only $22 million has been secured so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement published on Thursday, October 8, OCHA said Afghanistan\u2019s education system continues to face shortages of teachers, classrooms and learning materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agency said the crisis is particularly severe for girls, who remain barred from attending secondary school under Taliban restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OCHA called for urgent funding for education and the lifting of the ban on girls\u2019 secondary education, warning that these needs can no longer be delayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bareen Media &#8211; The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Afghanistan\u2019s education sector needs $160 million in funding for 2026, but only $22 million has been secured so far. In a statement published on Thursday, October 8, OCHA said Afghanistan\u2019s education system continues to face shortages of teachers, classrooms and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,37,25],"tags":[76,164,101,104],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-education","category-women","tag-afghanistan","tag-education","tag-humanitarian-crisis","tag-ocha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}