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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 Institutional Development:
The capacity development of District Development
Assembles (DDAs) is an essential element of area-based
development, which requires strong links between
villages and incorporation into provincial development
planning processes. While moving towards establishing
DDAs in all districts, it is envisaged that DDAs will
become the hub for community-based profiling, gathering
the appropriate information of activities in their
respective areas.
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. Productive Rural Infrastructure:
In order to increase and
diversify livelihood and income generation
opportunities, NABDP focuses on constructing and
rehabilitating physical infrastructure linked to
agricultural productivity and rural economic
development. Completed projects are in 14 diverse
sectors, including transportation, irrigation, water
supply, health and education facilities, and food
storage. These activities also provide strategic
opportunities to collaborate with other Ministries,
particularly MAIL and
MoEW.
3. Natural Resource Management:
With the goal of
improving the
capacity of communities to manage productive natural
resources to support poverty reduction and dispute
resolution, and to reduce vulnerability to natural
disasters, this thematic area has been newly integrated
into NABDP. Given the dependence of rural populations on
natural resources, the three interrelated dimensions of
economic livelihoods, environmental protection, and
security and stability will further contribute to
sustainable development and poverty reduction.
4. Rural Energy Development:
In order to tap into
Afghanistan’s significant energy potential and provide
rural populations with power and alternative fuel
sources, rural energy technologies are piloted and
implemented across the country through NABDP. The
long-term success of these projects is ensured through
community participation, as well as partnerships with
the private sector.
5. Local Economic Development:
In order to meet the dual
objectives of improved rural livelihoods and reduced
poverty through economic regeneration and increased
production and productivity throughout the rural
economy, NABDP has newly added this thematic area to its
strategy. By strengthening rural enterprises and
opportunities for rural populations to generate licit
livelihoods, as well as supporting commercialized rural
production and services that contribute to national
economy interventions will contribute area-based rural
development.
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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