KAIPTC has become West Africa's Operational Level Focus for Conflict Prevention and Peace Studies. Delivering courses to military and civilian personnel involved in Peace Support Operations throughout the world, it will lead original and challenging research into the causes and subsequent management of conflict and the promotion of peace.

'Afghanistan has achieved a great deal over the past six years. Even with modest capacity, strong leadership in the ministries of Public Health, Education, and Rural Rehabilitation and Development has begun transforming the country. The Health Ministry, outsourcing through nongovernmental organizations, is supplying basic services and has cut mortality for young children by 26 percent. It is saving 80,000 lives a year. New schools offer classes for 6 million students, the highest level ever, and more...

The Open Training Platform (OTP) is a UNESCO-powered hub providing free and open learning for development. It is a Flagship Partnership Initiative of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID).

At present, OTP regroups partners from all UN agencies (FAO, ILO/ITC, ITU, UNESCO, UNITAR, UNU, UNV, WHO and UNEP), worldwide development practitioners and agencies, as well as regional and local NGOs and CBOs.

This 15-month old web portal keeps on growing: it has been visited more...

"This International Crisis Group report, examines the worsening violence in a key country, whose police were overlooked in early stages of the international intervention in favour of building the army. Today they too often are a source of fear, rather than community protection. Instead of increasing coercive power and force size with poorly trained recruits, the government and its partners need to focus on increased accountability, ethnic representation and professionalism. Freeing the force fro more...

"CHI begins projects with grassroots organizations to help them respond with local solutions when they face problems. Rather than short-term grants or limited-impact charity work, we invest in building local education and health resources and training people with the skills they need to continue the work on their own in the future. In the process, we restore their self-confidence, help them develop expertise, and assist in creating new, thriving communities out of the ashes of the old."

AIL has dramatically expanded its teacher training program inside Afghanistan. To date, the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) has trained 13,000 teachers in student-centered teaching techniques, immediately improving the quality of education for about 390,000 Afghans. Interactive, student-centered teaching is a radical departure from traditional teaching methods in Afghanistan, which emphasize dictation, rote memorization, and recitation. Using the new teaching methods, teachers are able to tea more...

The Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) is an Afghan women’s non-governmental organization (NGO) which was founded in 1995 by Professor Sakena Yacoobi to help address the problem of poor access for women and children to education and health services, their subsequent inability to support their lives, and the impact of this lack of education and health on Afghan society. AIL is an organization, run by Afghan women, that plays a major part in reconstructing education and health systems capable more...

I am often asked why I do the kind of work I do with the Afghan Institute of Learning. Each time the question is posed, I am reminded of the children in Peshawar when they first come to school. In their eyes, I see fear, sadness and hopelessness. But in just a few weeks, the same children are standing taller, laughing and playing with smiles across their faces. And I answer the question with this: when you make education available to Afghan children, it is like giving them a new life and hope more...

"Afghanistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world. UNESCO (2003) defines literacy as the ability to understand, interpret and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. A 2000 UNICEF report estimated literary rates in rural areas to be 26% of men and 3% of women. In March 2004, more than 5 million students were enrolled in schools from the first to the twelfth grade in which 35% were girls. The number, however, differs from one region to another. more...

This document provide a brief history of the impacts of the War on the educational system in Afghanistan. It focuses on girls education and provides a recent history of education of Afghanistan in pictures.