Community Development

Our Community Development Programme

The purpose of our Community Development Programme is “to increase communities capacity to meet their basic needs, and plan and manage their own development in a just, sustainable way which can be adapted and passed on through neighboring communities.”

To do so, Afghan facilitators and expatriate consultants work with groups of remote communities over the span of several years.

The first step towards accomplishing these goals is building relationships with partner communities. Next, it is important to develop an understanding of their capacities and needs. Then the community development is facilitated through guidance, training, and co-operative projects involving IAM, government services and others with relevant expertise.

Posts about Community Development 18

6 May 2018

A Tale of Malnutrition: A Story from CDP

malnutrition

The Community Development Programme: On Nutrition In a village in the Central Highlands, there was a poor family. Because of all the agricultural work that had to be done, the […]

3 May 2018

The Cultivation of Rust-Resistant Seed Wheat: A Story from CDP

Cultivating wheat

A Story of Cultivation A frequent challenge that NGOs working with economically vulnerable people face is the lack of tolerance for risk. Particularly in the agricultural sector, subsistence or poor […]

19 May 2014

Weaving for bread: a widow’s story

A New Way to Provide I am a widow from Qizil Qishlaq a village in Faryab province located in the north-west of Afghanistan. Several years ago, my husband was killed […]

26 March 2014

Birth and Life Saving Skills: Baba Safdar

A Story from BLiSS Baba Safdar is an elderly man, who has become one of our greatest advocates, in teaching men’s Birth and Life Saving Skills (BLiSS) in our community. […]

30 April 2009

Humaira’s story

A Community Development Success Story In her own words, Humaira tells her story and how CDP has helped her children’s education. I was born in 1957 in a poor family in Qezil […]

27 April 2008

BLiSS

The First BLiSS Course In the spring of 2008 CDP ran their first Birth and Life Saving Skills course (BLiSS course) for women. Using adult education techniques, groups of participants […]