Canadian Ambassador William Crosbie and United States Ambassador for Economic and Development Affairs Anthony Wayne joined Minister of Finance H.E. Dr. Omar Zakhilwal for the opening of the Afghan National Customs Academy (ANCA).
Established with the support of a number of international donors, the ANCA will assist the Afghanistan Customs Department to develop into a modern [...]

For the first time in decades, Kabul is receiving a steady supply of electricity thanks to a major new transmission line linking Afghanistan’s capital with neighboring Uzbekistan.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is one of the largest partners in constructing a 420-kilometer transmission corridor carrying electricity across some of the most challenging mountainous terrain on earth. [...]

Despite the international economic criss Afghan Economy is estimated to grow 3.4% in 2008/09. but many problems remain, accondding to World Bank estimations.
Almost 85 percent of the population now has access to primary health care. According to an independent survey, the quality of care has improved and the number of patients served has more than [...]

As part of the EU-UNDP-UK €5,011,000, ($7,745,000) BOMBAF Project, Charlotte Adriaen, Chargé d’Affaires to the Delegation of the European Commission to Tajikistan, on 05 June 2008 handed over three new Border Crossing Points on the Tajik-Afghan border to the Afghan Border Police as the culmination of one phase in the UNDP’s Border Management Badakhshan Afghanistan [...]

On 6 May 2008 the deputy Minister of Energy and Water, Mr Ziayee, laid down the cornerstone of the new Sub-basin Agency in Baghlan-e-Jadid. The first of a series of constructions that will create the infrastructure for the new Agency responsible for the governance of all water related issues in the vast North-Easter basin of [...]

with the construction of 15Km Road in Kabul, Kunduz and Kapisa provinces, the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development provided 10,628 rural families with needed facilities in term of commute to district centers and Cities.
One of these projects is the graveling of 10.5Km road in Kundoz which connects 23 villages to Qalai Zal district that [...]

The Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA) won the World’s second best investment promotion agency award at the World Investment Conference 2008 in Accra, Ghana on April 18 2008.
The award, jointly given by the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), recognized AISA as an investment [...]

With the inauguration of 15 uplift projects of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development in the province of Samangan, 1897 families benefited from wide range of facilities provide. Meanwhile work on another major work for food project in Nenegarhar Province started today.
The completed projects in Samangan province include digging and cleaning of 1.4km irrigation [...]

With the completion of 55 development projects of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) in Maidawardak, Logar and Badakhshan provinces, 3,682 rural families are provided with wide arrays of various facilities.
49 completed power projects in Chak district of Maidanwardak totaling US$966,000 (AFs48300000) funded by MRRD are implemented through National Solidarity Programme (NSP), which [...]

Works to rehabilitate and complete the Khanabad irrigation system in Kunduz province, the third largest in the country, started this week. The project will supply irrigation water to 500 thousand beneficiaries in the Khanabad area in a more reliable and equitable way, improving agricultural output and livelihoods. It will also reduce environmental damages caused by [...]