Afghanistan

Reports

• Securing Afghanistan’s Future: Accomplishments and the Strategic Path Forward, a report prepared by the Government of Afghanistan in collaboration with the ADB, IMF, United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank, sets economic growth targets for Afghanistan that are aligned with the Millennium Development Goals. The report suggests that total financing of $31.8 billion is needed until 2010 to raise Afghanistan to an annual per capita GDP of about $500 by 2015. April 2004 [ PDF: 1.28 mb | 139 pages]



• Natural Resources In Recovery
  This paper was originally prepared in March 2004 as draft Technical Annexes to Chapter 3 of a strategy document entitled "Securing Afghanistan's Future: Accomplishments and the Strategic Path Forward." It was prepared with support from ADB, IMF, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank and others, and presented at the international conference on "Afghanistan and the International Community: A Partnership for the Future" on 31 March-1 April 2004 in Berlin.
  
  This paper outlines the current status, accomplishments, and key issues in the natural resources management sector, and presents the Afghanistan Government's sector development programs and investment budgets. March 2004 [ PDF: 959kb | 84 pages ]



• Transport Sector Building Connections
  This paper was originally prepared in March 2004 as draft Technical Annexes to Chapter 3 of a strategy document entitled "Securing Afghanistan's Future: Accomplishments and the Strategic Path Forward." It was prepared with support from ADB, IMF, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank and others, and presented at the international conference on "Afghanistan and the International Community: A Partnership for the Future" on 31 March-1 April 2004 in Berlin.
  
  This paper outlines the current status, accomplishments, and key issues in the transport sector, and presents the Afghanistan Government's sector development programs and investment budgets. March 2004 [ PDF: 581kb | 98 pages ]




• Afghanistan Debt Sustainability Analysis
  This paper examines the sustainability of external debt that could be incurred by the Government of Afghanistan to finance its reconstruction and development efforts. July 2003 [ PDF: 228 kb | 41 pages]

• A New Start for Afghanistan's Education Sector
  This book reports that education is a key ingredient in rebuilding Afghanistan,igniting progress in all other development sectors. April 2003 [ PDF: 559kb | 53 pages]

• Afghanistan's Transport Sector on the Road to Recovery
  This is a snapshot report of the situation from March to May 2002 of the country’s transport sector, focusing on roads and civil aviation. April 2003 [ PDF: 611kb | 40 pages ]

• Rebuilding Afghanistan's Agriculture Sector
  This report outlines sector strategies and needs, summarizes the subsectorreport findings, and highlights the programming aspects for rebuilding Afghanistan's agriculture sector. April 2003 [ PDF: 1,905kb | 21 pages ]

• Review of Afghanistan's Fiscal Management
  This paper provides an overview of economic and fiscal management in Afghanistan from the 1960s until the present. The paper assesses the needs for appropriate institutional arrangements to implement the country's reconstruction program, February 2003 [ PDF: 240kb | 42 pages]

• Afghanistan's Environment in Transition
  This report provides a preliminary look at Afghanistan's environment, including an environmental policy and institutional framework; and provides the basis for coordinated action to address high priority environmental concerns in Afghanistan. Topics covered include

  • forestry
  • biodiversity and protected areas
  • water resources
  • rangelands
  • the impact of returning refugees and internally displaced persons on rural and urban areas.
  December 2002 [ PDF:1,897kb | 38 pages ]

• The Comprehensive Needs Assessment for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in the Transport Sector, August 2002 [ PDF: 360kb | 74 pages]

• The final draft report of the Comprehensive Needs Assessment in Education, July 2002 [ PDF: 538kb | 80 pages]

• The final draft report of the Natural Resources and Agriculture Sector Comprehensive Needs Assessment, July 2002 [ PDF: 1,196kb | 245 pages]

• The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund draft document developed by ADB, UNDP, the World Bank and the Islamic Development Bank, April 2002 [ PDF: 1,467kb | 18 pages]

• The Afghanistan Interim Administration's National Development Framework draft, April 2002 [ PDF: 124kb | 48 pages]

• The Chairman's Summary of the Afghanistan Implementation Group Meeting, 11- 12 April 2002 [ PDF: 11kb | 2 pages]

• A Nation in Anguish, prepared by ADB staff in preparation for the Conference on Preparing for Afghanistan's Reconstruction on 27-29 November 2001 in Islamabad, Pakistan. November 2001 [PDF | 128 kb]