Sep 22, 2020
ACBAR Statement on International Day of Peace 2020
This year’s International Day of Peace arrives at a significant moment in Afghanistan’s history of more than four decades of conflict and insecurity. It is imperative that any peace...
Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief and Development
Monthly Updates
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Sep 06, 2020
Special Series Newsletter
When we think of #RealLifeHeroes in the humanitarian sector, we must honor every individual who contributes by dedicating his or her life and commitment to serving others in emergencies and...
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Aug 20, 2020
#RealLifeHero in Herat, Afghanistan
With 19 August marking World Humanitarian Day each year, and in line with this year’s theme of Real Life Heroes, we would like to take the opportunity to honor and recognize the work of many...
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Jun 24, 2020
Community Based Education helps displaced children stay in school
‘I want to be a teacher in the future…to educate my people. When I educate them, they will not fight and our country will have peace.’ World Refugee Day, Save the Children,...
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Jun 19, 2020
International Children’s Peace Prize nominee inspires displaced Afghan children
Aziza, now 20, has been living in an informal settlement in Kabul, Afghanistan since she was a little girl, after having to flee her home in Parwan Province along with her family to seek safety in...
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May 28, 2020
New Report on Afghanistan’s Citizens’ Charter launched. 28 May 2020
A recent study on the Citizens’ Charter Afghanistan Project (CCAP) has reviewed its implementation during the first phase (2016-2020) across three provinces and finds that while challenges...
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Mar 01, 2020
Putting Afghan People at the Heart of the Peace Process
ACBAR’s 152 NGO members welcome the agreement, signed on Saturday 29 February 2020 by the United States of America and the Taliban. We hope that it will mark the beginning of a better future...
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Feb 26, 2020
Afghanistan Civil Society Support Initiative Symposium in Herat Province
At this meeting ACBAR shared seven years of capacity building achievements for national staff of NGOs and CSOs in 30 provinces of Afghanistan. CSOs, Capacity Building
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Feb 16, 2020
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...
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Oct 16, 2018
NGOs should have their own role in Afghanistan
Work with ACBAR In terms of achievements during my time as a member of Steering Committee and Chairman of ACBAR, I think we worked very closely as a team with national and international...
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Oct 15, 2018
Memories of Challenging and Rewarding Times
Here’s what I saved on July 7, 2005, and still have: 1. An Advocacy folder that contains drafts of statements, speeches, position papers—What are NGOs (we are not money grubbers!)?...
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Sep 26, 2018
ACBAR’s #StoryOfAfghanistan photo competition
On Monday 24 September ACBAR celebrated it’s 30th anniversary with a seminar and a #StoryOfAfghanistan photo exhibition at the Afghanistan Centre Kabul University (ACKU) with ACBAR members...
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Sep 25, 2018
“Afghans need a just society”; interview with Aziz Rafiee
During the time of the Taliban (1998-2001), NGOs still had a very strong role and the coordination was needed. After the fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001 and the new era brought in...
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Sep 06, 2018
Education and literacy are the best way to sustainable development
I was a small girl when I married with a man who was about 15 years older than me and I even did not know what marriage was. My husband’s family always mentioned to me, “you are...
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Aug 28, 2018
" Serving the needs of the people of Afghanistan" Interview with Mr. Fazel Rabi Haqbeen
Generally the Taliban were suspicious of NGOs and did not understand what they did and what our objectives were. They suspected some NGOs of proselytization. They wanted to control...
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Aug 05, 2018
The beginnings of ACBAR - by Anders Fänge
where the needs after ten years of war were enormous. Many begun to explore the possibilities of starting projects in Afghanistan, and meetings and discussions took place between them and the...
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Jun 20, 2018
Commemorating the World Refugee Day 20 June; #WithRefugees
Here is the story of one of our young members: “I came to Norway as a refugee together with my sisters, brothers, mother and father in 2005. After that we got refusal of stay in another...
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Jun 11, 2018
"A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed"; interview with Hakim Gul
ACBAR NGO members had programs for supporting refugees in Pakistan and working on cross border activities. In order to coordinate better, NGOs were sharing the information through ACBAR and...
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Jun 05, 2018
World Environment Day 5 June 2018; Let’s #BeatPlasticPollution
The issue of plastic pollution has become more and more prominent, with heart-wrenching images of marine animals that die after mistakenly eat plastic bags thinking that they are jellyfish...
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May 30, 2018
Afghanistan and the false sense of safety
Interestingly, the last few years has seen several nations around the world begin to categorize Afghanistan as a ‘safe country’. Courts in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and...
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May 23, 2018
Violence on the Front Line: Attacks on Health Care in 2017
The report reveals: There were more than 700 attacks on hospitals, health workers, patients, and ambulances in 23 countries in conflict around the world in 2017. More than 101 health...
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Mar 27, 2018
Extraordinary times, ACBAR in the nineties
During my time ACBAR expanded its activities and staff numbers. ACBAR took over the SCA Agricultural Survey Unit (1994), later the IRC Printing Press and HERC (screen printing). As...
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Feb 27, 2018
Putting Protection at the Heart of the Peace Process
ACBAR briefing on protection of civilians, aid workers and humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan Peace Process, Humanitarian Assistance, Aid Workers, Protection of Civilians
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Feb 21, 2018
Mr. Hashim Mayar – “ACBAR Sahib”
There were achievements but also challenges. ACBAR was obliged to leave Kabul on some occasions, for example 1989 by the Afghan Government and sometimes even resulting in loss of funds. Mr. Mayar...
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Jan 28, 2018
PRESS RELEASE: NGO Community Afghanistan calls for action to ensure the protection of aid workers following the attack on Non-Governmental Organizations in Jalalabad
NGOs in Afghanistan are often the first line of response for those in need. In 2017, through the support of NGOs alongside other humanitarian actors, well over 3.4 million people across...
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Jan 07, 2018
Op-Ed – 30 Years of Coordination – Effective NGOs, Stronger Communities
The second element is that ACBAR has gradually changed from being a forum representing only international NGOs to a forum representing both national and international NGOs. This is due to...
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Nov 25, 2017
“Orange Day” and End Violence Against Women in Afghanistan
Experience show violence against women is a world-wide phenomenon that happens in different ways in different cultures; the root causes of violence are understood to be gender inequality and...
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Feb 24, 2016
SCA Activities
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) is working in Afghanistan since the 1980s. SCA’s vision is an independent Afghanistan in peace, where human rights are respected, rural...
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Feb 20, 2016
ADVS activities
Conducting A Three days Peace building and Conflict Resolution workshop brought conciliation between Abdul Muqeem and Faqir Jan,s Households After conducting the Conflict Resolution and Peace...
