The Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) is an Afghan women's non-governmental organization (NGO) which was founded in 1995 by Professor Sakena Yacoobi to help address the problem of poor access for women and children to education and health services, their subsequent inability to support their lives, and the impact of this lack of education and health on Afghan society. AIL is an organization that plays a major part in reconstructing education and health systems capable of ...

With the arrival of 2008, the international community's effort in Afghanistan has been measured with the release of a number of reports on aid effectiveness in Afghanistan. Last March 2008, ACBAR, an alliance of national and international aid agencies working in Afghanistan, has published a report titled "Falling Short: Aid Effectiveness in Afghanistan". The report's Author, Mr. Matt Waldman is an insider in the whole development process in Afghanistan, he is the ...

Professional project by Roshan Noorzai (Ohio University), dgAfghanistan Reconstruction Topic Guide

There are a number of principles and cautions to be taken into account for development of telecenters in Afghanistan. These principles require that the process of establishing and maintaining telecenters be
1) localized and community driven,
2) ...

Contributed by David Delos Santos, dgAfghanistan Reconstruction Topic Guide

As growing shares of aid resources, time and energy are being devoted to conflict prevention and peacebuilding projects, programmes, and policy strategies, more evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of these endeavours is essential. There is an increased interest among donors ...

By Roshan Noorzai, dgAfghanistan Guide

In its recent history, Afghanistan has been a testing field for socio-economic reforms. Reforms introduced since the 1870s were often resisted by the local communities in Afghanistan. Sometimes the reforms ...

The Budapest Declaration (2004) defines community development as “a way of strengthening civil society by ...