United Nations Transitional Engagement Framework (TEF) for Afghanistan

The Transitional Engagement Framework (TEF) is the overarching strategic planning document for the UN system’s assistance in 2022. It provides strategic direction and coherence; ensures UN coordination, collaboration, and complementarity of action; and provides a basis for joint risk-sharing and accountability.

The TEF highlights the evolving geo-political and socio-economic context in which it will operate, the cost of inaction if international assistance ceases; the UN’s strategic priorities, intended collective outcomes and the resources required to achieve them; the principles of engagement for its operations; and the UN coordination and implementation arrangements.