Afghanistan has been suffering three decades of war and internal conflicts which destroyed the country’s infrastructure and seriously harmed government’s managerial capacities. This situation has seriously precluded Government from providing total coverage to improved basic services, which has, in turn, weakened people’s trust in Government in certain areas. Mr. Hayatullah Sakhi works as “Social Organizer” with Municipal Governance Support Programme in Herat province. He tell us how ...

Community mobilization and awareness raising is the first step in the “City for All” programme aimed at enhancing community awareness through Masjid and media, as well as small and big meetings in eight Afghan cities. As part of the community mobilization and awareness raising ceremony held at District 6th, Kabul with the supporting of Kabul ...

My name is Mohammad Ismail, I am Social Organizer in Kabul under the City for All Programme and my job consists of visiting the district for awareness-raising before conducting the survey. In one of such visits, there was a man named Mohammad Anwar who lives in Block 5th, district one, he was the first person ...

I am Larisa Khojazada, I am originally from Mazar-i- Sharif City. I graduated from Civil Engineering from Balkh University on 2012 and since the day I graduated from University I’ve tried many times to get a job on my professional field, but I couldn’t. As other Afghan youths, I totally lose hope and tried to ...

As Afghan cities and towns grow rapidly and irreversibly, they are faced with resource and capacity constraints to manage the process of urbanization. Strategic planning (rather than traditional master-planning) is an essential tool for managing urban growth and expanding access to services in already crowded and largely-informal cities. Through a participatory process the direction of ...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Maslakh’s Internal Displacement People (IDP) families finally got access to clean drinkable water Community established Community Development Councils (CDCs) and agreed on project on clean drinkable water as their priority. Now Maslakh water supply network has 273 stand taps, each tap is serve to 10-20 families. A total of 19,350 people now have ...

Until recently, residents of district 11 in Herat didn’t receive any urban services such as-clean streets, garbage collection, drainage clearing, and maintenance. “Polluted and dusty environment is harming the society. There are many insects and diseases during the summer season.” Shamayel Azizi said. During election of CDC members in District 11. There are efforts by ...

My name is Razia and I live in District 9 of Mazar city. The canal next to my house is polluted and full of garbage. Children have to walk through the canal and all the garbage to reach their school. One day, while walking to school, my daughter Sama slipped and fell off the canal ...

The five- year old Hamid finally enrolled into Kindergarten that was his dream and hopes of his mother Community Development Councils (CDCs) established, identified problems and agreed to build Kindergarten in Herat city through “Afghanistan Urban Peacebuilding Program” (AUPP) which is funded by Kingdom of Netherland and Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), with the technical support ...

UN- Habitat supports Internal Displacement People/families in three strategic Afghan cities; Herat, Kabul and Nangarhar under Local Integration of Vulnerable Excluded & Uprooted Programme (LIVE-UP). The programme is funded by European Union and started in early 2015. Maslakh is formally one of the largest IDP settlements in the world, at one point with an estimated ...