Kabul, 05 April 2018- City for All (CFA) has become an integral part of the United Nations development, peace and human rights efforts in Afghanistan. The promotion of land tenure security is indeed a good opportunity to achieve better living standards, securing investments, empowering Afghan women and ending illegal land grabbing. CFA is currently supporting ...

Kabul, 4th April 2018 Afghan municipal authorities have launched a pioneering system which calculates, issues and collects municipal revenues (Safayi revenue) with technical support from UN-Habitat City for All Programme (CFA). Since October 2017, CFA staff has surveyed more than 500.000 households across the country, and delivered municipal tax invoices to over 49,000 in Kabul. ...

Police 119 Information center The Pilot Democratic Policing “Police-e-Mardumi” (PeM) was initiated in September 2009 by civil society and the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and implemented jointly by police, community groups and community development councils CDCs. In the second and the third quarter of 2010, the concept was openly discussed by the MOI, international community ...

22 August 2017, Kunduz.  Afghanistan Urban Peacebuilding Programme (AUPP) has supported more than 120 Community Development Councils (CDCs) and Gozar Assemblies (GAs) in eight strategic cities; Bamyan, Farah, Herat, Jalalabad, Kabul, Kunduz, Nili and Mazar-e-Sharif on community infrastructure for creating safer environments. With concentration on the urban terrain of peacebuilding and state building, the programme ...

11th August 2017, Bamyan, The children, with a high interest were attending school and had studied in an open space where no facility existed to save them from the direct sun. We were finding them sick during the hot and cold seasons, but still, the high interest and motivation of the students were appreciable. The children with only ...

The head of the Gozar’s Council in Herat city´s District 4, Mr. Noor Ahmad was not completely aware about the properties surveyed in his district. “I will not let the municipality surveyor and staff to survey and register our properties, because the safayi tax will increase and we will not pay”  he said. The City ...

09 May 2017- Kandahar: The “City for All” programme (CFA) held a Strategic Municipal Action Plan (SMAP) in Kandahar city. A part of the workshop 223 number of people including women, men, disabled persons, farmers, civil activists, media, representatives from the Municipalities, Nahia (District) heads, Ministry of Urban Development and Housing (MUDH) and UN-Habitat staff ...

Somea is 21 years old, from Kandahar city, and is a university student. She, recently, participated in City for All’s workshop on preparing a Strategic Municipal Action Plan (SMAP) for Kandahar City hosted by Kandahar Municipality. The workshop was held, with the technical assistance from UN-Habitat, in order to understand the needs, priorities and expectations ...

UN-Habitat, under its  Local Integration of Vulnerable Excluded & Uprooted People (LIVE-UP) programme, trained returnees and IDPs to acquire income-generating skills. A total of 112 males and 300 females of the most vulnerables were trained on skills like tailoring, carpentry, welding, literacy, and basic health care, in District 22 of Kabul City. Chamane Khossain Khail, ...

Community Development Councils (CDCs), mobilized under the LIVE-UP project, prioritized storm water disposal as their most pressing need, and built a Canal to dispose-off the storm water. The canal project is in the length of 2000 meter with total cost 600,000 USD that is benefiting over 800 families or 4038 people living in the settlement. ...