Development Projects

The following is a list of development projects funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Canada also supports three signature projects in Afghanistan: the Dahla Dam and irrigation system project, education projects in Kandahar province, and the polio eradication project.

* 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)

• Kandahar Rapid Village Development Project*
• Integrated Alternative Livelihoods Program in Kandahar Province*
• Accelerated District Reconstruction Program in Kandahar Province*
• Kandahar Local Initiatives Program*
• Enhancing Licit Livelihoods in Northern Afghanistan
• Canada Fund for Local Initiatives
• Basic Education and Gender Equality in the South (Kandahar)
• Quality Primary Education to Southern Afghanistan (Kandahar)
• Education Quality Improvement Project*
• Girls’ Education Support Program
• Girls' Primary Education*
• Vocational Training for Afghan Women
• Integrating Women into Markets
• Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund – Recurrent Costs*
• Regeneration of Murad Khane
• Governance Development and Support Programme
• Rural Enterprise Development in Kandahar

Humanitarian assistance

• Food Aid to Vulnerable Families*
• Tuberculosis Control and Polio Eradication Programme*
• Maternal and Child Healthcare: Supporting Hospitals and Health in Southern Afghanistan*
• Maternal Health Initiative in Kandahar Province*
• Support to Mine Action Program for Afghanistan*
• World Food Program Protracted Relief and Rehabilitation Operation
• Humanitarian Action Report Appeal
• United Nations High Commission for Refugees Global Appeal
• International Committee of the Red Cross Appeal
• Support to Health Structures in Afghanistan
• Afghanistan National Disaster Management Infrastructure and Training in Kandahar
• Afghanistan National Disaster Management–Emergency Preparedness and Response Project
• World Food Programme United Nations Humanitarian Air Service Afghanistan
• World Food Programme Telecommunications Afghanistan
• Kabul Widows Humanitarian Assistance Project

National institutions

• National Solidarity Program*
• National Area-Based Development Programme*
• Afghanistan Community Renewal Program   
• Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan*
• Afghanistan Technical Assistance Program
• Support to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
• Nationalizing Legal Aid in Afghanistan* 
• Afghanistan Sub-national Governance Program
• Responsive Fund for the Advancement of Women*
• Rights in Practice—Women’s Rights and Family Law Reform*  
• Capacity Building and Access to Medicines
• Afghan Women’s Community Support Project
• Election Support
• Supporting Women's Political Participation at the Provincial Level
• Broadening Awareness of Democracy in Afghanistan
• Women as Decision Makers
• Afghanistan Marketplace Project