Rural Development Program

More than three decades of wars and conflicts caused destruction of most infrastructures in Afghanistan. In addition to war, several years of droughts had a devastative effect on the life of millions of people especially in rural areas. The result was prevalent poverty, unemployemnt, disease for people. Helping people in rural areas to overcome the difficulties help them to stay in their villages. This not only help them to live in their own lands and find their livelihood more easily, but also help the government to overcome a lot of unwanted problems in cities.

CCA is an active NGO in reflecting problems of rural areas to the government and international organizations and help them to recognize needs and priorities of different villages. It has been working in many projects related to dealing with drought, poverty eradication in rural areas, national skill development program, development of women workers skills, engineering projecrs like building shelters for villagers, constructing water canals and so on. CCA also has a good experience in delivering helps to rural areas for both emergency and ordinary cases. CCA helped to supply emergency food and other necessaries to people in rural areas in case of floods, drought, starvation, and other emergency cases.

Here are some of the recent projects in the field of rural development in CCA:


Shelter Project in Bamyan and Daikundi: 2010 shelter program of UNHCR addressing the immediate needs of returnee which provide for 171 families with ORS (one-room shelter) and for 86 families with (shelter repair kite). Totally 257 families directly benefit from the programme in CH region.
This caseload includes returning refugees/IDPs from the period of the Soviet occupation from 1980 to 1989, the inter-factional fighting from 1992 to 1995, and the Taliban regime from 1996- 11 September 2001. The beneficiaries will construct the shelters themselves, using traditional methods to make and lay the mud bricks, fix the beams and lintels doors and windows, To ensure that house meet the UNHCR design specifications and are structurally sound. CCA engineers will provide technical advice and oversight during construction. Part of the material door-window-I-Beams will be procured directly by UNHCR RA Kabul and will be delivered to CCA warehouses. Warehousing and transport cost of materials from Kabul to the CCA sites warehouses will be covered either under a centralized sub-agreement with GTZ or through the contract with suppliers while transportation of shelter materials from CCA site warehouses to the beneficiaries and other logistical and operational support will be covered within this sub-project. The rest of the material (RCC beams, ceiling wood/planks, poles, concrete slabs for latrines, earthquake mitigation wood etc “as mentioned in the budget sheet”) will be procured by CCA using UNHCR IP procurement guidelines. A provision has been made under the sub-agreement for the procurement of the mentioned items. CCA will make and fix the sign-boards on each shelter unit, depicting names of the donor, funding and the implementing agency.