About ACBAR
ACBAR is a trusted, neutral intermediary within Afghanistan’s humanitarian and development landscape. With over 30 years of experience and a membership of more than 200 NGOs (NNGOs, INGOs), ACBAR has strong convening and coordination power that underpins its legitimacy. Through established national and sub-national platforms, including coordination meetings, advisory bodies, and donor and policy forums, ACBAR reduces duplication, promotes complementarity, and enables timely information sharing among NGOs, donors, UN agencies, and other stakeholders.
Current Humanitarian Context:
Afghanistan’s humanitarian and development landscape is undergoing a structural transformation. Declining aid flows, shifting donor priorities toward Basic Human Needs (BHN) approaches, increased pressure for localization, and a complex and evolving political environment are...
Information Sharing & Coordination
ACBAR Information and Coordination Department activities Strengthen coordination responses, roles and activities to enable and improve members’ activities in Afghanistan. Support collection and sharing of essential information among member NGOs and stakeholders (including civil society, donors, the UN, the media...
Advocacy, Inclusion and Enabling Environments
Joint advocacy ACBAR holds frequent advocacy meetings to identify and coordinate advocacy initiatives among members. The diversity of our members allows ACBAR to speak out and defend different sectorial and cross-cutting issues in Afghanistan. These collective approaches have led to...
Capacity Strengthening and Organization Development
For more than a decade, ACBAR has remained committed to strengthening the institutional, technical, and operational capacities of national and local NGOs across Afghanistan. As humanitarian needs continue to evolve and localization becomes increasingly central to the aid architecture, ACBAR...
Vision
Effective NGOs, Stronger Communities
Mission
To provide an efficient platform for members to carry out effective humanitarian and development activities in Afghanistan.