State building in Afghanistan 2005-2006 Confusion and Vision at Subnational Levels

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - by Dr.Hamish Nixon Researcher, AREU a
 

Moderator/Discussant: Dr Ali Wardak, AHDR 2007 Author, Centre for Policy and Human Development (CPHD), Date, Time and Place: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. at CPHD.

Dr. Hamish Nixon is the Governance Researcher at AREU. He completed his Ph.D. on comparative peace processes and post-conflict political development at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He has worked on post-conflict governance and elections in Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Palestinian Territories, El Salvador, and Cambodia. He has published articles and chapters on citizen security, state building and democratization, sub national governance, and aid effectiveness. Before joining AREU in March 2005 he held academic appointments at Kingston University and The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.

Students and lecturers of Kabul University and members of international community attending the lecture organized by CPHD

The presentation will review the current situation of sub national governance in the country, and address the changes to institutions over the last two and a half years, and the possibilities of a sub national governance policy emerging in the coming period. In the three years since 2004 the Government of Afghanistan (GoA) and its international partners have become increasingly aware that issues and challenges surrounding sub national governance in Afghanistan will be crucial to national development, stability, and security. This period has also been a time of extraordinary change in sub national governance structures. During 2005-6 Provincial Councils (shura-ye woleyati) were elected and seated, provincial development committees (PDCs) were established, public administrative reform efforts expanded to some provinces and districts, and the National Solidarity Programme (NSP) and its associated community development councils (CDCs) expanded into large numbers of communities. These developments have occurred in a piecemeal and uncoordinated fashion up to now, and there is a need for a policy to draw together the different aspects of this work.

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