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From Department for International Development (DFID)
In Afghanistan
  • Education against all odds: job skills open up new worlds in Helmand

    From tending fields to tailoring - how UK aid and Mercy Corps are investing in Afghanistan's youth

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  • Afghanistan: UK to transform 50,000 farmers' livelihoods

    New cutting edge agriculture programme

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Demining Herat: making land safe in Afghanistan's 'bread basket'

    How UK aid and the HALO Trust are helping farmers reclaim their fields in Afghanistan

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  • PM and Afghan President sign Strategic Partnership

    Prime Minister David Cameron and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met at Chequers, where they signed an Enduring Strategic Partnership between the UK and Afghanistan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Growing poppies instead of opium in Afghanistan

    How improved security and agricultural support from the UK is helping Afghan farmers to move away from growing poppies to more sustainable crops

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  • UK support to strengthen civil service in Afghanistan

    International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell today announced UK support to an innovative programme which will help the Afghan Government…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • DFID Research: Malaria control in a complex context

    Research into malaria control methods has helped to reduce disease spread in conflict areas of Afghanistan and refugee camps in Pakistan

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  • Technology to tackle corruption

    This World Anti-Corruption Day, see how a new mobile technology is helping to clean up salary payments to Afghan police officers

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  • Afghanistan Independence Day

    Statement from DFID’s Parliamentary Under Secretary for State Stephen O'Brien to mark the Independence Day of Afghanistan

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK’s Afghan aid effort to increase by 40%

    The UK’s aid effort in Afghanistan will be expanded by 40%, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Mineral deposits can help lift Afghanistan out of poverty

    Deposits of minerals in Afghanistan such as iron, copper, gold, silver, platinum, as well as oil and natural gas, have the potential to help lift the country out of poverty.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK pledges new support for Afghanistan

    The UK is set to provide new support to Afghanistan in a drive to create more jobs, improve policing and strengthen the effectiveness of Afghan government, Prime Minister David Cameron announced today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Mitchell: Aid to work harder for Afghanistan

    International Development Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell has announced that aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan needs to to get higher priority

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Secretaries of State visit Afghanistan

    The Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Defence, and International Development are today visiting Afghanistan.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Small business loans breathe life into Afghanistan economy

    Thousands of small business loans are creating jobs for men and women

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    First published during the 2007 to 2010 Brown Labour government

  • DFID Research: Understanding the Afghan Warlords

    The Crisis States Research Centre is helping our understanding of how government state-building efforts are affected by the Afghan Warlords

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