Vidya Diwakar, Ihsanullah Ghafoori, and Orzala Nemat Executive Summary Afghanistan is experiencing contemporaneous crises including drought, floods, COVID-19, insecurity, political and economic...
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“We will die in poverty before dying by COVID”: Young adults and multilayered crises in Afghanistan
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...
Drugs and development in Afghanistan: National policy and actor analysis [EN/FA/PS]
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...
The Political Economy of Education and Health Service Delivery in Afghanistan
This study tests the hypothesis that the character of political settlements at various levels (primary, secondary, and sectoral) may partly explain the different delivery outcomes. The study first...
Taking village context into account in Afghanistan - Briefing paper 18 - September 2015
Key messages Villages must not be treated as if they are all the same in the design, implementation and evaluation of interventions that seek to bring changes in the ways they organise their affairs...
Afghanistan Research Newsletter. Number 32, April - June 2015
Issue 32 of the Afghanistan Research Newsletter is now available on the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit’s (AREU) website. Newsletter 32 is the second issue published since the quarterly...
A to Z Guide to Afghanistan Assistance 2014
The twelfth edition of the A to Z Guide is now available. The guide provides an extensive glossary of assistance terms, an overview of Afghanistan’s system of government, key primary documents, and...
A to Z Guide to Afghanistan Assistance 2013
The eleventh edition of the A to Z Guide is now available. Aiming to enhance understanding of the actors, structures, and government processes related to aid and reconstruction efforts in...
The A to Z Guide to Afghanistan Assistance 2012
Ten editions and still going strong. The 2012 version of AREU’s flagship “A to Z Guide” is now available. Aiming to enhance understanding of the actors, structures and government processes related to...
Afghanistan Research Newsletter No. 30
Features Mental Health, Adversity and Resilience in Kabul Panter-Brick, Catherine, Anna Goodman, Wietse Tol and Mark Eggerman (2011). “Mental Health and Childhood Adversities: A Longitudinal Study in...
Rural Afghan Livelihoods: Running out of Options
In 2002-03, AREU documented the livelihoods of dozens of households across rural Afghanistan. When research teams revisited a selection of these families in 2008-09, they found the majority worse off...
Decline and Stagnation; Why Rural Afghans are Staying Poor
Livelihood insecurity for many rural Afghans is getting worse, not better Effects to tackle rural poverty must focus on reducing the risk and negative effects of failed harvests, ill-health and...
Afghanistan Research Newsletter Number 24, January/February 2010
National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA) 2007/2008 Profile of Afghanistan The official release of the analysis of the date gathered during the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment...
Afghanistan research newsletter - No. 22
Documenting the 2009 Election The website of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) http://www.iec.org.af/content.asp?id=law is the first place to check for election material updates. The...
Beyond poverty: Factors influencing decisions to use child labour in rural and urban Afghanistan
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This synthesis report includes a summary of the key findings of three individual case studies undertaken by AREU that deal with the complex decisionmaking processes about child...
Afghanistan research newsletter - No. 20
Feature: Hidden Kabul by Jolyon Leslie "Let the reader conceive a broken succession of houses, composed of mud walls of different elevations, pierced here and there with wooden pipes to carry off the...
Afghanistan research newsletter - No. 19
Georg Morgenstierne: Early Norwegian Research in Afghanistan by Michael Fergus In February and March 1977, I spent six weeks in eastern Afghanistan, conducting a socio-economic survey in Kunarha and...
Afghanistan's health system since 2001: Condition improved, prognosis cautiously optimistic
OVERVIEW Five years ago, in the immediate post-conflict period, Afghanistan's health services were in a deplorable state. Based on relatively scant information available at the time, the situation...
Afghanistan research newsletter - No. 11
Afghanistan National Population Census In 1996, Daniel Balland wrote "The demography of Afghanistan is one of the least known in the world. . . . Even more problematic than the scarcity of...
Urban livelihoods in Afghanistan
Executive Summary The cities of Afghanistan are growing fast. The pace of this growth exceeds the planning and management capabilities of the already overwhelmed central government and of...