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Mullahs and family planning

Posted by: Philippa, Posted on: 9 July 2012 - Categories: Afghanistan, Girls & Women, Health

I was nervous and excited about this meeting. I dressed modestly and checked my headscarf as inside the small room were 15 local mullahs. They lived up to my image of elderly Islamic clerics, with long beards, turbans and serious countenances. Today, I …

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Dari, development and daily life - one month in Kabul

Posted by: Christa, Local Government Team Leader, DFID Afghanistan, Posted on: 6 July 2012 - Categories: Afghanistan

I've spent a month in Kabul already, which has passed in a flash! In this time, I have got to grips with my job, which is to help strengthen government systems - especially how the government in Kabul works with local structures …

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The times they are a-transitioning

Posted by: Cleo Blackman, Programme Manager, DFID DRC, Posted on: 25 June 2012 - Categories: Afghanistan, Infrastructure

...to his concerns about continuing efforts to get girls into school and putting pressure on Kabul to ensure central government funding trickles through to the places it is most needed....

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