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Education

Education is one of the main pillars and indicators of a country’s social and economic progress. Education is also essential to the process of promoting democracy, peace, tolerance and human development around the world. Afghanistan has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world and only 18 % of women in Afghanistan are literate. After 2001 and the end of the Taliban regime many boys and girls wanted to start school but the school system was at a low and needed to be reconstructed and now NAC is one of the organizations which is assisting in that. Within education we have activities both for formal and informal education.

Formal Education

NAC’s long-term strategic objective within education is to contribute to the enhancement of the education sector in Afghanistan. Our education support program aims to ensure quality education, child-friendly environment in schools and to promote access to school for disadvantaged rural children and Afghan refugees/returnees. Our activities related to Formal Education are:

Informal Education

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education has identified literacy and non-formal education as one of the priority areas in its National Education Strategic Plan (NESP) to develop a long-term literacy program to empower communities and individuals to build a productive, secure and literate nation. NGOs take an essential role as partners for the NESP and in expanding literacy and vocational training women. NAC implements several projects with activities related to non-formal education. They are:

NAC Works

Ghazni
Badakhshan

Our history

Since 1986, NAC has built 170 schools in Afghanistan. These were community based schools established by the local communities.
During the Soviet invasion, civil war and the Taliban regime, NAC has provided free school supplies and material to the schools and training and salaries to teachers.
Good cooperation with the local population made it possible for us to engage in girls' schools in Taliban-era. In 2002, NAC participated actively in the ‘Back to School’ National campaign that was launched by the United Nations.
The community based schools were registered and handed over to the Afghan Ministry of Education during 2003. It is now a national goal to provide such schools to all. Out of the 8660 schools registered, only 3000 schools have a building and are short of teaching supplies and material [1386 (2007) School Survey, Ministry of Education]. Therefore, NAC still stands committed to improvement of quality of schools in Afghanistan.

Partners and Donors

The Norwegian Embassy in Kabul
OD (Operation Days Work)
WFP (World food Programme)
UNICEF (UNs relief fund for Children)

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