Bringing the Global Refugee Forum discussions to Afghanistan

Afghanistan can benefit from the skills brought by returnees, but the support of neighbouring countries hosting Afghan refugees remains critical to peace and stability. This was the theme at the Afghan Displacement Forum in Kabul on 5 February.

IDPs, NGOs, Durable Solutions

15th Meeting of the Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management (RCC)

Speech of Mr. Mohammad Qaseem Haidari, Deputy Minister, Policy and Coordination, State Ministry of Disaster Management and Humanitarian affairs in 15th Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster management on a holistic approach to addressing overlaps between Disaster and Conflict Risk- Experience from Afghanistan 

NGOs, Environment, Resilience 

Peace in families means peace in society

Op-ed by Jamila Afghani (Medica Afghanistan) on how peace in families can have a snowball effect in the society. Women of Afghanistan are eagerly waiting for the day that violence is out rooted on the world day of Elimination of Violence Against Women.

World days, Peace process, Women’s rights 

Building humanitarian capacity

ACBAR kicked off the 2nd Twinning Program with 20 National NGOs.  In coming years ACBAR  and 13 Advisors (3 National NGOs and 10 INGOs) will engage with guiding and mentoring the 20 NNGOs to be eligible for humanitarian funding to serve people in need.

NGOs, Humanitarian space, Grand bargain 

Implementing SDGs in Afghanistan

Kateb University held a conference on 29 August in Kabul to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Afghanistan. ACBAR participated on one of the discussion panels and highlighted the role of civil society in contributing to implementation of the SDGs.

SDGs, Development 

ACBAR Strategy 2020 - 2022

ACBAR’s Midterm General Assembly on 30 October 2019 approved the new Strategy 2020 until 2022. Effective NGOs support Stronger Communities.

NGOs, Communities 

ACBAR Members cover all of Afghanistan

ACBAR has 155 National and International NGO members: 137 members reported at the beginning of 2019, that they are working in 11 sectors in 34 provinces and 341 out of 378 districts. In total 29,978 staff (22,374 men and 7,604 women) are employed.

Humanitarian, Development and Peacebuilding activities

Challenges of being a woman humanitarian worker in Afghanistan

Working as a woman in this field is very difficult in Afghanistan due to different barriers of culture and tradition.

Humanitarian, Emergency, Protection

NGOs call for enabling environment

ACBAR has written an open letter on the occasion of the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) on 22nd July 2019 with recommendations to the Government of Afghanistan to ensure protection of civilians and aid workers and to reduce bureaucratic constraints for NGOs.

JCMB, GMAFs, Protection, Enabling civil society, NGOs

NGOs call for protection of civilians, aid workers and their facilities

The continued use of violence by all parties involved in the Afghan conflict against civilians, especially against health care and education facilities and personnel, is a serious violation of the International Humanitarian Law and human rights law. This should be stopped. SCA and ACBAR held a press conference to address the Government of Afghanistan and the international donor community.

Humanitarian, Protection, NGOs, GMAFs

Break the vicious cycle of conflict and hunger

After 40 years of conflict and displacement, a major structural livelihood crisis is resulting also in a chronic food security crisis with in 2018 the worst drought seen in decades. ACBAR was on the panel of the ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment side-event on “Conflict and Hunger” and gave recommendations to improve the daily lives of all Afghan people.

Humanitarian space, NGOs, Food security

Commemorating World Refugees Day 2019

Afghan refugees are the largest protracted refugee population in Asia and the second largest refugee population in the world. ACBAR is in solidarity with all refugees and is working with its members to support on protection and basic needs to have a life in voluntary, safe, gradual and dignified manner to become self-reliant. World Refugees Day on 20 June 2019 should not be forgotten. #WorldRefugeesDay #StepWithRefugee 

Refugees, Humanitarian space, NGOs

Updated Humanitarian Response for Afghanistan

As many as 6.3 million people need humanitarian aid in 2019, including 4 million because of drought. To pioritise the delivery of aid to people in need , this multi-year Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) has been updated.

Humanitarian space, Drought, Conflict

 

Call for including the rights of people with disabilities

The NGO community urges not to forget the needs of people with disabilities ahead of the upcoming International Conference on Afghanistan in Geneva. In a conflict-prone country becoming injured with lifetime consequence is unfortunately frequent in Afghanistan.

NGOs, Persons with Disabilities 

 

Afghanistan needs a new collective approach

Ahead of the Geneva Conference on Afghanistan (GCA), ACBAR is setting the tone for more inclusive coordination to achieve sustainable development for the sake of the Afghan people. Hereby a call for a new collective approach to  address Humanitarian, Development and Peace issues.

Triple Nexus, Coordination, NGOs

“TIME TO THINK GREEN”, A FILM BY ACBAR AND UN ENVIRONMENT

Afghanistan should become resilient for environmental changes because its exposed to many climatic hazards and also to climate change. Time to take action!

UN Environment, Beat Pollution, Afghanistan Resilience, Environment