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Center for Policy &
Human Development

The Human Development Concept
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The Human Development Concept

Human development is about much more than the rise or fall of national incomes. It is about creating an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accord with their needs and interests. People are the real wealth of nations. Development is thus about expanding the choices people have to lead lives that they value. And it is thus about much more than economic growth, which is only a means —if a very important one —of enlarging people’s choices.

Fundamental to enlarging these choices is building human capabilities —the range of things that people can do or be in life. The most basic capabilities for human development are to lead long and healthy lives, to be knowledgeable, to have access to the resources needed for a decent standard of living and to be able to participate in the life of the community. Without these, many choices are simply not available, and many opportunities in life remain inaccessible.

Center for Policy and Humand Development
Capacity Building for Human Development Teaching,
Research and Policy Advocacy

Building on the success of Afghanistan’s first National Human Development Report (NHDR) 2004, the United Nations Development Programme and Kabul University (on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) have embarked on establishing the Center for Policy and Human Development at Kabul University. At a critical juncture of Afghanistan’s transition to development, the 2004 NHDR clearly identified challenges for sustained research and analysis among Afghan specialists and institutions, in order to carry out alternative policy research beyond the production of a national report. Capitalizing on valuable lessons learned, and housed at Afghanistan’s premier institution of higher education, while linked with other Afghan universities, the CPHD will support long-term capacity for research, advocacy and teaching on human development and policy research in general.

Exchange Programme

Lecturers Training -- The promotion of scholarly exchanges among faculty and students of Afghan universities with faculty and students from universities outside of Afghanistan is one of the specific aims of Centre for Policy and Human Development (CPHD). 11 Kabul University lecturers were sent to India for social research methodology training in March 2009, more…

SERRANA Academic Journal -- Another major exchange programme of the CPHD is to support Kabul University’s academic journal, SERRANA both financially and technically, more…

Guest Lecture Series -- The Guest Lecturer Series of CPHD presents respected and renowned national and international experts, academics and practitioners to speak about a specific topic related to their field of expertise. CPHD invites or accepts the requests from these speakers to share their knowledge and working experience with the audience, more…

Capacity Building Progarmme

Capacity Building Programme for Human Development

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Afghanistan’s first National Human Development Report (NHDR) 2004 painted a clear picture of the status of human development in the country after two decades of war and destruction. The Human Development Index (HDI) value calculated nationally puts Afghanistan at the dismal ranking of 173 out of 178 countries in the world.

CPHD LECTURES:

Wednesday, July 15 2009

Can Good Policy Be Made in Afghanistan?

CPHD held a third guest lecture of the 2009 series, reflecting on policy making practices in post 2001...

CPHD NEWS:

Kabul, 20 May 2009

The Center for Policy and Human Development (CPHD) held its first guest lecture of the year 2009 on May 20, 2009 at the Conference Hall of CPHD.