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The Fate of the Village Councils: The Emirate’s effort to institute hegemony over rural Afghanistan

Jelena Bjelica AAN Team

Afghanistan’s Community Development Councils (CDCs), which were established under the Islamic Republic by the National Solidarity Programme (NSP) and its successor Citizen’s Charter, have been abolished by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA). Government bodies have been told to coordinate economic projects with ulema councils instead. Afghanistan, however, has a longstanding tradition of grassroots, collective, […]

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Leaving Afghan Development in the Wrong Hands

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Foreign Affairs, 13 February 2012 A balanced and critical look at the National Solidarity Programme and its CDCs which are usually hailed in a one-sided manner as one of the Afghan success stories.

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Afghanistan: Local Reconstruction Effort Goes Awry

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IWPR, 17 May 2011 An Afghan reporter tells the story how CDCs in Kapisa province – one of the often unquestioned ‘success stories’ of Afghanistan – are being controleld by ex-commanders and how these embezzle money by allocating projects to themselves. Not an argument against CDCs in general, but one for looking at them carefully, […]

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