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MoreNABDP
National Area-Base Development Programme
Background
National Area-Based Development Programme (NABDP) is one of the six closely interlinked National Priority Programs and Projects of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and development (MRRD) in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) is the lead executing agency. The project is nationally executed with UNDP support.
NABDP began in 2002 when the need for an integrated long-term rural development programme became clear. Applying the lessons learned from Phase I, NABDP’s Phase II (2006-2008) aims to contribute to the sustainable reduction of poverty and improvement of livelihoods in rural Afghanistan, and to empower communities to articulate and address their needs and priorities. In addition, NABDP supports the Government in providing community-based rural rehabilitation and development in an integrated, people-focused, inclusive and participatory manner. The overall strategy is to support the establishment of an integrated planning and implementation framework for a comprehensive, coordinated, pro-poor and pro-growth approach to rural development.
Implementation of NABDP takes place mainly through four closely interlinked main components, and several cross cutting themes:
- Community Empowerment: Supporting the creation and development of gender-sensitive District Development Assemblies (DDAs), District Development Plans (DDPs), and Provincial Development Plans (PDPs).
- Institutional Development: This component strengthens MRRD institutional capacity and technical capabilities to enable it to effectively fulfill its mandate of promoting rural regeneration and livelihoods at all levels.
- Implementation Support: Strengthening MRRD’s implementation capacity to mobilize its own resources, as well as public and private resources, to effectively coordinate and implement social and economic rural infrastructure development projects.
- Economic Regeneration: Building the capacity of MRRD to formulate and regularly update regional economic regeneration policies and strategies, identify viable interventions for economic investment, poverty reduction and improving livelihoods and provide frameworks for comprehensive rural development planning at regional, provincial and district levels.
Cross-cutting Themes
- Gender: NABDP aims at achieving equitable participation in selecting district representatives and ensuring an equitable voice in development planning, decision-making and project implementation, and gender equity in access to information and training.
- Energy for Rural Development in Afghanistan: ERDA is a new sub-component of NABDP which aim to bring sustainable energy generation to the rural areas of Afghanistan which currently lack a reliable electricity supply, as well as contribute to the development of rural energy policy.
- CNTF: NABDP also implements development projects aimed at promoting alternative livelihoods though funding provided to MRRD by CNTF.
- DIAG: In addition, NABDP supports the implementation of the Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) initiative, which aims to establish a secure environment by disbanding illegally armed groups on the basis of voluntary compliance through community development incentives.
