In Afghanistan, the Women Economic Empowerment Rural Development Project (WEE-RDP) is a national program that empowers rural Afghan women to mobilize into self-help groups. These groups help their members access

No group of women has been stripped of their fundamental rights as much as Afghan women in recent years, barred as they are from schools, universities, and most workplaces since

Only 6% of Afghan women have access to the internet through any device. In a country where the government has been overtly hostile to women going to school and college,

Building on the current NSP, the NSP II will scale up the program to "lay the foundations for strengthening of community level governance, and to support community-managed subprojects comprising reconstruction

To promote adoption of improved production practices by target farmers, with gradual rollout of farmer-centric agriculturalservicessystems and investment support. Service delivery centered on farmers will promote in practice increased participation

The project development objective is to increase and enhance the participation of women, who are organized in community-based savings groups, in business support services and income-generating activities in pilot areas

To assist the Borrower in restoring irrigated agricultural agricultural production in rural areas, through improved, reliable water supply to rehabilitated irrigation schemes.

To assist the Borrower in restoring irrigated agricultural agricultural production in rural areas, through improved, reliable water supply to rehabilitated irrigation schemes.

To build, strengthen, and maintain Community Development Councils (CDCs) as effective institutions for local governance and social-economic development.

The objectives of the project are (i) to lay the foundations for a strengthening of community level governance, and (ii) to support community-managed sub-projects comprising reconstruction and development that improve