The London Conference was held on January 31 and February 1, 2006, in the capital city of UK where 66 states and 15 international organizations participated. The conference was co-chaired by British Prime Minister H.E. Tony Blair, The President of Afghanistan H.E. Hamid Karzai and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In this conference GoIRA presented the Interim Afghanistan National Development Strategy (I-ANDS),through which the future development framework wasenvisaged.
The delegates adopted the Afghanistan Compact, a political agreement between the international community and the GoIRA,and agreed to establish a Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) for overall strategic coordination of the implementation of the Afghanistan Compact. This identified three critical and interdependent areas or pillars of activity for the next five years:Security, Governance, Rule of Law and Human Rights, and Economic and Social Development. An additional focus was on a critical issue cross-cutting across all pillars:elimination of the narcotics industry, a formidable threat to the people and state of Afghanistan, the region and globally.
The Afghanistan Compact marked the formal conclusion of the Bonn process The compact served as a basis for the next phase of reconstruction, with commitments to rely more on the country's own institutions and support the Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS) development process.
At the end of the conference the donor countries and development agencies pledged to provide a total of USD 10.5 billion for a period of five years to support the implementation of ANDS. After the confirmation of pledges and exclusion of the reiterated pledges, the actual new pledge was confirmed to be USD 8.7 billion.
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