Vidya Diwakar, Ihsanullah Ghafoori, and Orzala Nemat Executive Summary Afghanistan is experiencing contemporaneous crises including drought, floods, COVID-19, insecurity, political and economic...
Orzala Nemat, Vidya Diwakar, Ihsanullah Ghafoori, Shukria Azadmanesh Afghanistan experienced an extraordinary situation in 2021 that presents a complex example of how an intensified level of conflict...
Abstract Afghanistan has experienced decades of conflict-related insecurity and disasters, a situation that has been exacerbated by the onset of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This paper...
Munazza Ebtikar December 2020 Executive Summary This paper examines how Afghan men from diverse socio-economic, ethno-linguistic and age groups challenge and redefine masculinities in the face of...
Adam Pain, Kaweh Kerami and Orzala Nemat Executive summary Afghanistan’s opium poppy economy presents a complex policy problem. It lies at an intersection between various seemingly discordant policy...
Introduction In a warzone, no one distributes sweets or cookies. Afghan proverb: Pa Jang Ki Halwa Na Taqseemizhi Over 40 years, every side in Afghanistan’s armed conflict has violated fundamental...
New Research Paper Discusses Women’s Political Participation in Afghanistan Kabul, 6 October 2020: The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) supported by UN Women Afghanistan, launched a...
Women’s Participation in Peace Efforts Vital to Sustain Peace in Afghanistan Kabul, 21 September 2020: The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) and the UN Women- United Nations Entity for...
AREU Research Paper Documents the Rise of the Deserts of Southwest Afghanistan and its Impact on Migration, Poppy and Stability Kabul, 7 May 2020: The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)...
Groundwater—the main water supply source for Kabul residents—has been extensively exploited in the past 2 decades, causing large drawdowns. While the imbalance between groundwater recharge and use is...
This study documents how the Helmand Food Zone was developed, its origins and architects, as well as the different actors involved in the implementation and the subsequent challenges of delivery...
One of the most significant barriers to female participation in political processes is the threat of violence, in all of its forms and manifestations. There has been in Afghanistan a history of...
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By Said Sabir Ibrahimi and Marta Bautista Forcada Blog posts reflect the views of the authors and not those of AREU. In December 2016, the Colombian government entered into a historic peace agreement...
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Kabul, 1 July 2019: The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) launched a research paper titled “On Borrowed Time: The limits of informal credit for livelihood security in Herat,...
Dr. Antonio Giustozzi Introduction In December 2016, AREU launched a European Union-funded, three-pronged research project on natural resources management that has a component about nomad-settler...
Kabul Citizens Vote to Strengthen Democracy and Reform, Despite Lacking Trust in the Process: AREU Research Finds KABUL, October 18 2018: In a study conducted through interviews and focus group...
Gulsom Mirzada During a recent field research on informal credit mechanisms in Pashtun Zarghon District, in the western Afghan province of Herat, the interviewees reported that the majority of rural...
An Afghan Think-Tank Study Finds that Southwest Bare Land has Become Home to Up to 2.2 Million People Kabul, 20 May 2018: The result of a study conducted by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation...
I returned on 2nd February 2018, after one year, to two villages in Herat province to interview the families that were part of the Phase II of the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium (SLRC)...
Introduction Since 2001, a number of projects funded by donors including the US Department of State have been implemented to enable the Afghan government to address various aspects of human...
