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Executive Summary
National Area-Based Development Programme (NABDP)
commenced as a joint initiative of the Ministry of Rural
Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) and United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) in 2002, with the goal of
contributing to a sustainable reduction of poverty and an
improvement of livelihoods in rural Afghanistan.
NABDP
Phase-II (originally 2006-2008) focused on support to
District Development Assembly (DDA) institutionalization,
poverty reduction, and institutional capacity development,
whilst linking with Interim Afghanistan National Development
Strategy (I-ANDS) and Agricultural Rural Development Sector
Strategy (ARDSS) frameworks.
 The NABDP Phase-III is a five-year commitment supported by
UNDP for MRRD to take the next step in the continuum of
national programme development that started with Phase I as
a priority recovery and economic regeneration programme in a
complex emergency context. NABDP Phase-III will subscribe to
its area-based implementation approach with a dual focus on:
productive infrastructure that will serve to link rural
communities as part of the Government’s broader agricultural
and rural development strategy; and ii) continuing its vital
work on strengthening and linking District Development
Assemblies
(DDAs)
as another
novel manifestation of an area based approach, namely as a
conduit for social and economic development planning.
The
long-term vision of the agriculture and rural development
sector is to ensure the social and economic wellbeing of
rural communities, especially the poor and vulnerable. Hence
NABDP Phase-III will
shift away from the direct construction of schools,
clinics, primary roads and WATSIP activities and focus on
its own comparative advantage (summarized in Section 2.3 and
detailed in the Technical Annexes in Annex 3), whilst
ensuring synergies between all MRRD programmes especially
the Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Programme (AREDP).The
NABDP Phase-III strategy is based on the third pillar of
ANDS, ‘social and economic development’, and
addresses the following main thematic areas:
1. Local Governance and DDAs Institutionalization:
NABDP
Phase-III
aims to achieve full national coverage for DDAs, whilst
building on the experience and capacities of already
established DDAs. The programme will continue the
institutionalization of DDAs through expanding the scope of
their role in local governance,
providing a forum for conflict-resolution, increasing female
participation in decision-making to strengthen their overall
role as social development institutions with ever increasing
geographic coverage. The systematic training required, will
cover topics such as enhanced technical assistance in
project design, implementation and monitoring,
disaster management, procurement and financial management.
Along with support from other sectoral initiatives, these
will enable DDAs to play
a
catalytic development facilitation role at the centre of
this process at the district level, promoting the
Comprehensive Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD)
approach with critical engagement of the private sector and
links to stabilization and governance programmes and
initiatives. The DDA is envisaged as playing a core role in
establishing linkages vertically and horizontally to
governance and stabilization programmes, thereby offering a
multiplier effect for donor funding. It is further envisaged
that the DDA would become the hub for community-based
profiling, gathering the appropriate information of
activities in their respective areas.
2. Sustainable Livelihoods through Rural
Infrastructure Services:
NABDP Phase-III has been tasked with the establishment and
incubation of a renewable energies unit - the ‘Energy for
Rural Development for Afghanistan’ (ERDA) project was
initiated in the last year of Phase-II to contribute to the
strategic energy benchmark set at the London Conference,
reiterated in the Paris Declaration and the ANDS.
NABDP Phase-III will also have a
tight focus, filling immediate gaps in any improvements to
physical infrastructure to promote agricultural productivity
and rural economic development, such as local markets,
farm-to-market roads, irrigation works and food storage
facilities, etc. These activities will create greater
opportunities and provide valuable data, project piloting
mechanisms and strategic opportunities to collaborate, allow
access to and implement activities for other Ministries
(particularly MAIL and MoEW),
the UN, private sector, civil society organizations and the
security forces.
3. Stabilization through enhanced economic livelihoods:
NABDP Phase-III aims to contribute towards a more
holistic resolution, which would address problems of
operating in conflict and post-conflict environments.
NABDP-III will build upon current successes in promoting
comprehensive area-based approaches in Kandahar, Helmand and
border provinces which promoted greater community ownership
through community-based contracting. These innovative
operating platforms encompass a number of economic
generation models and schemes all of which should have a
stabilizing influence on local communities. It also promotes
alternative livelihood opportunities for farmers dependent
on poppy cultivation.
The
NABDP phase III, which has a value of USD 294 million, will
be executed fully under the leadership of MRRD
supported by UNDP under the National Implementation Modality
(NIM) within a five year timeframe of
July
2009-June 2014.
Cross-cutting Themes
Gender
NABDP
aims at achieving
equitable participation in selecting district
representatives and ensuring an equitable voice in
development planning, decision-making and project
implementation, and gender equity in access to
information and training.
Energy for Rural Development in Afghanistan
ERDA is a new sub-component of NABDP which aim to bring
sustainable energy generation to the rural areas of
Afghanistan which currently lack a reliable electricity
supply, as well as contribute to the development of
rural energy policy.
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CNTF
NABDP also implements development projects aimed at
promoting alternative livelihoods though funding
provided to MRRD by CNTF.
DIAG
In addition, NABDP supports the implementation of the
Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) initiative,
which aims to establish a secure environment by
disbanding illegally armed groups on the basis of
voluntary compliance through community development
incentives.
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