The president of the Afghan Youth Initiative, Inc., Matiullah Amin, has wrote a critical piece about the National Solidarity Program (NSP) of the Ministry of Rehabilitation and Rural Development (MRRD). The NSP has set up over 28,000 Community Development Councils (CDCs) that help establish a list of development priorities at the local level.
He states that program lacks focus on long-term development and relies on rural citizens lacking skills to carry out development projects - causing inefficiency in the program. Amin is also concerned about the vulnerability of these locally-run programs to embezzlement by program officials. Amin says that time has come to overhaul NSP and he offers some specific recommendations in his article.
See "Leaving Afghan Development in the Wrong Hands", Foreign Affairs, February 13, 2012.
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