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Afghanistan’s National Solidarity Program Expands to 9,000 More Communities

Posted on Tue, 01/12/2010 – 21:06

Kabul-Afghanistan - Future Generations applauds the Afghanistan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD), the World Bank, and donors’ decision to continue support of the National Solidarity Program (NSP). As the flagship program for local governance, now working through 22,000 Community Development Councils (CDCs), the NSP will continue vital service delivery to rural communities with a third round of funding and innovation. With these funds, Future Generations Afghanistan, an NSP implementing partner, will continue training CDCs in Ghazni and Nangahar Provinces.

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Boston Review Features Response by Future Generations Afghanistan Country Director

Posted on Thu, 12/31/2009 – 00:48

The Boston Review published a response by Future Generations Afghanistan Country Director, Aziz Hakimi about the future of Afghanistan. The article is featured below. For a direct link to the Boston Review website click here.

‘The West can encourage legitimacy and accountability’

Nir Rosen argues that the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan is likely to fail and that the Karzai government is irredeemably illegitimate. I agree with the first point, but not with the second.

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Toward a Better Future in Afghanistan: An Investigation into the Central Council of Shahidan in Bamyan Province

Authors: 
Kazim Yazdani
Date: 
May, 2008

This case study provides an overview of the history of the village councils, known as shuras, of Shahidan valley in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province. The shura’s founding, activities, obstacles, and achievements are presented as a means sharing with a larger audience what rural life is like in Shahidan and what improvements local people, including former combatants, are accomplishing.

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Summary of Impact

 

With an approach that engages community and government partnerships, Future Generations raises the capacity of people to create locally-appropriate solutions that last.

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Local Governance

Palin Welcome

Gandhi envisioned a village-based democratic process in India. In 1993, this vision was incorporated into the 73rd Constitutional Amendment, formalizing the Panchayati Raj system of local governance.

Village-elected leaders form a Panchayat Council (women have one-third representation), which has a budget to reinvest state funds in locally-identified projects for health, education, and infrastructure.In the last ten years, however, this system has failed in many states largely due to lack of educated, informed, and empowered village leaders.

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Future Generations Newsletter Autumn 2009

Authors: 
Future Generations
Publisher: 
Future Generations
Date: 
September, 2009

Future Generations Autumn 2009 newsletter features articles on:

  • Reducing child mortality in Afghanistan
  • Kitchen gardens raising women's empowerment in Northeast India
  • New Pendeba Society in Tibet, China
  • Connecting students through DimDim
  • Alumni News: Women's Photovoice
  • Kresge Planning Grant for Green Campus
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Alliance Magazine Interviews Bill Carmichael, Chairman of the Board of Future Generations

Posted on Wed, 06/17/2009 – 17:48

Bill Carmichael, Chairman of the Board of Future Generations, shares his experience in building the capacity of civil society organizations with the Ford Foundation from 1968 - 1989. Caroline Hartnell interviews Bill Carmichael for Alliance magazine's June 2009 issue focused on philanthropy’s role in promoting democracy and civil society.

The interview is available as a downloadable PDF document, by clicking <here>.

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Interview with Bill Carmichael

Publisher: 
Alliance Magazine
Date: 
June, 2009

Bill Carmichael, Chairman of the Board of Future Generations, shares his experience in building the capacity of civil society organizations with the Ford Foundation from 1968 - 1989. Caroline Hartnell interviews Bill Carmichael for Alliance magazine's June 2009 issue focused on philanthropy’s role in promoting democracy and civil society.

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Local Governance for Self-Reliant Community Change

The Challenges to Peacebuilding: In the view of many Afghans, the vast majority of international assistance has been inefficient, over-priced, externally-driven, and not locally accountable. People perceive that only foreign contractors are doing well by the current system.

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Participatory Planning and Budgeting to Meet Local Priorities

Health care in the community of Las Moras in Huánuco, Peru consisted of a poorly equipped one-room health post staffed by an auxiliary nurse and visited by few patients.

Then in 1994, with advice from Future Generations staff, the Peruvian Ministry of Health gave more control over the management of this clinic to the community.

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