30 Years Anniversary ACBAR

The medical and relief assistance to very remote communities would take weeks to arrive, which often rendered their use obsolete by the time local communities could take advantage...

Many NGOs represented by ACBAR had decades of experience  working throughout Afghanistan  yet their hard-won perspectives on sustainable development there,  garnered...

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 inter...

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 mo...

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...

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 er...

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 wante...

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 t...

What is life like in Afghanistan? Tell us visually about your daily live: beauty, sadness and hardship. Send us a photo of your Afghanistan by 30th August 2018 to: 30yearacba...

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...

It was an interesting time, because there were a lot of developmental challenges and ACBAR was increasingly seen as an institution to which people turned for information. At that t...

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 pri...

ACBAR was around that time looking for a new director and to my luck I got the job and started August 2003.  What I loved about my work with ACBAR was the diversity: working w...

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 f...

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.  T...