Development Projects
Canada is among the world's top donors to Afghanistan, which is our largest bilateral aid recipient. Canada supports a wide array of development projects in Afghanistan, including three signature projects that represent large-scale, significant contributions to rebuilding the country. The signature projects are on-going, as well as other development projects in the areas of Basic Services, Humanitarian Assistance, and National Institutions.
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funds the following development projects in Afghanistan.
Note: Initiatives that have programming in Kandahar province and initiatives specific to that province are denoted with an asterisk (*).
Basic Services (including education and economic growth)
- National Rural Access Program *
- Provincial Reconstruction Team: Reconstruction and Development Program *
- Micronutrient Initiative
- Joint Appeal for the Humanitarian Consequences of Rising Food Prices *
- Emergency Appeal for Afghanistan - International Committee of the Red Cross *
- Global Appeal - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees *
- Human Rights Treaty Reporting
- Support to the Establishment of the Afghan Legislature
Humanitarian Assistance
- Independent Electoral Commission
- Women's Rights Fund
- Making Budgets Work
- Anti-Personnel Mine and Ammunition Stockpile Destruction
- Assistance to Vulnerable Families in the South
- Kabul Procurement Marketplace
- Strengthening the Rule of Law
- Enhancing Legal and Local Capacity for Tomorrow
- Gender Advisor to the Afghan Ministry of Interior
National Institutions
- UNICEF—High Food Prices and Drought Crisis Emergency Appeal: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Kandahar
- Improvement of Farmers Skills for Sustainable Agriculture
- Support to the Afghan Doctors’ Association in Germany Comprehensive Health Clinic
- Compensating Civilian Damage, Sarpoza prison
- Material Support to the Department of Women’s Affairs
- Computer Training for High School Girls
- Women's Changing Room in the Medical Faculty
