'challenges affecting' is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to obstacles or difficult situations that are impacting a particular group of people or situation. For example: "The government is looking into the economic challenges affecting low-income communities in rural areas."
What needs to happen to address the challenges affecting the world's youth?
For two decades I lived in Vietnam, leading research into the health challenges affecting low and middle-income countries.
IBA Hamburg, an agency created to manage the project, is tasked with finding solutions to three disparate challenges affecting most cities: urban landscape, social equity and climate change.
"The quality and availability of teacher training, scarcity of textbooks and resources, and class size remain serious challenges affecting education quality," according to the authors, who also noted that the sector remains underfinanced.
BUSINESS DAY An article on Thursday about challenges affecting renewable energy producers misstated the estimated costs to the Vermont Electric Cooperative under production curtailments at the Kingdom Community Wind farm, ordered by ISO New England, the area's electric grid operator.
On the contrary, the Petersburg Dialogue has become a talk shop, unwilling to question the economic, social or political policies of the Kremlin or deal with challenges affecting Russian society.
But even more impressive was the president's willingness to evoke vividly the challenges affecting the very poor, in some of his most descriptive language of the evening: "Let's also recognize that there are communities in this country where no matter how hard you work, it's virtually impossible to get ahead.
Though many protesters seem united in feeling that a system designed to benefit the rich and connected is not working in their favor, many are also more concerned with specific challenges affecting their local communities, such as education and the environment.
The MENA region is facing a number of serious challenges affecting its labor markets.
Emerging trends and the challenges affecting the production of γ-PGA are reviewed.
In the literature, various WFS challenges affecting WFS execution cost have been discussed.
