Brief Introduction:

Afghanistan National Re-Construction Co-ordination (ANCC) as an Afghan NGO is active for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country since 1995. ANCC is a registered organization with the Ministry of Economy registration (No. 117) and is an active member of SWABAC coordinating body for NGOs in the southern region and is in close coordination with ACBAR coordinating body in Kabul.

Since 1995 ANCC has implemented in the last 15 years some 170 projects of different natures including rehabilitation, reconstruction and development work. ANCC Began work with Afghan refugees in based in Balochistan/Pakistan. Following gradual meeting the needs of communities in emergencies, ANCC increased its capacity to receive development projects especially carry out some activities on education in the later stages.

ANCC works in the following main sectors:

• Education/training
• Water/sanitation
• Agriculture/horticulture and irrigation
• Food security
• Capacity building and community development

ANCC hardly work to reach the most vulnerable people where there is lack of basic education, lack of food and clean water, lack of trained teachers and lack of other basic needs for ordinary lives, ANCC created ALCs (Accelerated Learning Centers) to educate the children who didn’t have access to formal education due to lack of school, provision of water (digging bore-wells in the communities) in the areas where large number of people had no access to clean drinking water and construction of walls for flood protections.

ANCC growth is noticeable in Uruzgan in the recent years. Currently some 4000 children are benefitted from our Quality Primary Education Program (QPEP). In partnership with National Solidarity Program (NSP)/MRRD, ANCC has been successful to get the contract for establishment of 240 Community Development Councils CDCs in three districts of Uruzgan and made some 60% of the progress so far. Uruzgan also enjoys an agriculture project to reduce the farmer’s dependency on poppy cultivation. This project includes saffron cultivation, fruit and non fruit saplings and poultry distribution for women to support their families while benefitting some over 2300 farmers. In addition to these ANCC with the support of FAO distributed improved seeds, fertilizers benefitting some 6000 farmers of two districts.

ANCC geographically covers Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Nimroz and Hilmand provinces in the recent projects. The donors include UN agencies including WFP, UNICEF and FAO. Royal Embassy of Netherlands, Save the Children, Action Aid UK, CIDA and DAI/LGCD/USAID are the prominent donors.