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Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of Sussex Asia Centre, School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, Prof. Magnus Marsden joins AfD’s Board as Senior Advisor as of May 2020. Prof. Marsden completed his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge […]

Women’s football remains a taboo in Afghanistan. Madina Azizi, a top player who was part of the Afghan national women’s team, knows it better than anyone. The 23-years old player now coaches a team of girls between the ages of […]

On April 16th, 2020 the “General Assembly to Fight Coronavirus Crisis in Herat” held a panel discussion on “Practical Solutions to Fight the Coronavirus Pandemic”. The panelists at the event were: Dr. Mohammad Dauod Altaf, Team leader for Health Emergency […]

Action for Development (AfD) supports International Street Children Day, which will be held this Sunday, April 12, 2020. Launched for the first time in 2011, the International Day for Street Children aims at, inter alia, raising awareness about the issue […]

On April 2nd the newly established General Assembly to Fight Coronavirus in Herat, held a launching ceremony hosted by the Afghanistan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) in Kabul. AfD’s Country Director, Khushal Nabizada, presented the findings of the study titled: […]

Declared as a global pandemic on 11 March 2020 by WHO, the COVID-19 outbreak is currently present in 195 countries, including Afghanistan. According to the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan, 75 people, mostly men, are now confirmed to have […]

Kabul, 5 March 2020 Action for Development (AfD), together with the Afghanistan Human Rights Organization (AHRO) and Action Against Hunger (ACF) conducted a round table discussion on the issue of chronic malnutrition (stunting) in Afghanistan. According to UNICEF, Afghanistan has […]

Kabul, 12 February 2020 Action for Development (AfD) and the Afghanistan Human Rights Organization (AHRO) held the first round-table meeting as part of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Pooled Fund Project. The SUN Movement, Afghanistan Civil Society Alliance for […]

As part of the Winterization campaign that AfD launched in November 2019, children attending our 3 centres in Kabul benefitted from the distribution of winter clothing.

Kabul, Kapisa and Parwan Provinces
From mid-November 2019 through January 2020