Mar 01, 2020
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...
Feb 26, 2020
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
Feb 16, 2020
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...
Nov 17, 2019
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...
Nov 05, 2019
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...
Jan 28, 2019
The 2020 update to the Afghanistan multi-year Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP 2018-2021) requests US$733 million and aims to reach7.1 million people who are acutely affected by the humanitarian...
Oct 16, 2018
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...
Oct 15, 2018
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!)?...
Sep 26, 2018
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...
Sep 25, 2018
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...
Sep 06, 2018
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...
Aug 28, 2018
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...
Aug 05, 2018
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...
Jun 20, 2018
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...
Jun 11, 2018
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...
Jun 05, 2018
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...
May 30, 2018
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...
May 23, 2018
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...
Mar 27, 2018
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...
Feb 27, 2018
ACBAR briefing on protection of civilians, aid workers and humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan Peace Process, Humanitarian Assistance, Aid Workers, Protection of Civilians
Feb 21, 2018
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...
Jan 28, 2018
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...
Jan 07, 2018
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...
Nov 25, 2017
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...
Feb 24, 2016
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...
Feb 20, 2016
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...
