Read our 2018 annual report
Concern's objectives, activities and achievements in 2018 can be found in our new annual report.
Read the reportWhy are we in Afghanistan? Concern has worked in Afghanistan since responding to a major earthquake in 1998. Today, the country faces one of the most acute complex humanitarian crises in the world. Environmental crises combined with a precarious security situation pose significant challenges to the Afghan people. We are responding with emergency, resilience and long-term development programming.
Despite many development advances over the last thirty years, Afghanistan remains an extremely volatile and fragile country following almost four decades of instability.
These challenges are compounded by the inability of communities, government and humanitarian actors to adapt quickly enough to changing climate conditions such as increasingly severe floods, snow and droughts. As one of the world’s least developed countries, Afghanistan lacks the institutional capacity to implement environmental policies, prepare for natural disasters and provide the necessary humanitarian response when disasters do occur.
Emergency response
In September 2018, the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority gave Concern a Certificate of Appreciation in acknowledgment of our effective responses to emergencies.
Education
Building resilience
We respond rapidly to emergencies, but we also build resilience and tackle gender inequalities so that communities are more prepared to withstand the shocks caused by climate and on-going conflict.
