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Projects funded under the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security

AFGHANISTAN

Reducing Humanitarian Deficits of War-Affected Rural Communities

Implementing Agency
UNIDO and the Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees (DACAAR).

Collaborating Partners
Ministry of Agriculture, local authorities in Ghazni and Herat, Helping Afghan Farmers Organisations (HAFO), FAO, WFP, and Japan Regional Comprehensive Assistance for Afghanistan (the OGATA initiative).

Objective
The overall purpose of the project is to increase the capability of marginalized and poor rural communities to engage in viable farming and non-farming enterprises, thus reducing their dependency on relief aid and helping them to move towards sustainable livelihoods.

Beneficiaries
The project areas are located within the provinces of Ghazni and Herat where a large number of the population is living in extreme poverty as a result of war, drought and other calamities, and where subsistence agriculture and related activities are the only means of livelihood for some 85 percent of the population. In this regard, the projects focuses primarily on the rural population directly involved in agriculture/food production, namely, poor smallholder farmers including IDPs and women groups as well as on a category of beneficiaries essential for community reconstruction, including blacksmiths, carpenters, tailors, masons and extension workers. The project will also ensure that for each category of beneficiaries, special attention is given to former young Afghan fighters in the project areas, so as to do away with their military life and learn skills to become self-sufficient and contribute to community reconstruction.

Activities

  • Hold participatory workshops with targeted rural communities and other concerned organizations, and develop the project’s action plan.
  • Organize training for local male extension workers (i.e., training of trainers) in use, adjustment and maintenance of agricultural machinery.
  • Conduct training of village blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, and tailors.
  • Organize training for local female extension workers (i.e., training of trainers) in home based food processing technologies and kitchen gardening.
  • Introduce the DACAAR micro-finance programme to train artisans (male and female) and assist them in developing their own micro-enterprises.

Outputs (including distinctive aspects of the project)


  • Sensitization and mobilization of targeted rural communities.
  • Enhancement of the agricultural productivity of smallholding farmers through the supply of appropriate farm mechanization and skills upgrading.
  • Improvement of village rural service providers.
  • Advancement of existing home-based, micro and small-scale agro enterprises and the promotion of relevant production networks.




Other projects in Afghanistan

  • Reintegration of Returning IDP/Refugee Women in Community Building. [More...]
  • Rebuilding Urban Communities. [More...]
  • Reducing the Demand for Illicit Drugs. [More...]

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