Posts tagged Balkh
ILO – Road to Jobs: Bringing decent work to rural households in the Northern Provinces of Afghanistan
ILO – Road to Jobs: Bringing decent work to rural households in the Northern Provinces of Afghanistan

January 2021

The International Labour Organization (ILO) carried out the Road to Jobs (R2J) project 2015-2020 with the aim to create more and better jobs in two provinces of Northern Afghanistan: Balkh and Samangan. ILO reports that more than 60,000 people have recorded positive changes in their working conditions and/or income and approximately 120,000 beneficiaries from disadvantaged groups have been reached. Around USD 14 million have been generated over five years for poor-income earners and targeted MSMEs.

Samuel Hall was commissioned to conduct the final independent evaluation of R2J and assess its outcomes on market systems and local communities, using a mixed-methods approach and the OECD-DAC criteria to examine the project’s relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability in a holistic manner.

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South & Central Asia, Implementation ResearchSamuel HallAfghanistan, Samangan, Balkh, ILO, Road to Jobs, working conditions, final evaluation, evaluation, employment, labour, rural, rural economy
HARAKAT - Special Economic Zones in Afghanistan
HARAKAT - Special Economic Zones in Afghanistan

July 2015

To help the Government of Afghanistan (Ministry of Commerce and Industry) and its partners promote ambitious economic and employment generation schemes in the country, this report investigates the economic context for Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Afghanistan across seven regions in the country: Kabul, Balkh, Nangarhar, Paktia, Kunduz, Kandahar, and Herat.

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Resilience, South & Central AsiaSamuel HallAfghanistan, special economic zones, employment, Kabul, Balkh, Nangarhar, Paktia, Kunduz, Kandahar, Herat, SEZ, economic development, HARAKAT, research, report, economic analysis
UNICEF – Social Protection System: An Afghan Study
UNICEF – Social Protection System: An Afghan Study

September 2014

UNICEF is considering the development of a social protection programme with a specific focus on children, within the already existing framework developed by the World Bank and MoLSAMD. With the end goal of articulating children-sensitive programming with the World Bank’s own safety net programme in mind, the first step in this direction is for the organisation to launch a pilot programme in Balkh to test the best modalities of programming to cover children’s needs for social protection in the country.

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Resilience, South & Central AsiaSamuel Hallsocial protection, children, child-sensitive, vulnerability, Afghanistan, UNICEF, Balkh, children's needs, report, case study
Mercy Corps - Economic Assessment and Labour Market Survey
Mercy Corps - Economic Assessment and Labour Market Survey

November 2011

This economic assessment report is based on desk research, labour market assessments and analyses and key stakeholder interviews in the four targeted provinces – Balkh, Baghlan, Kunduz and Kandahar – to identify growth sectors and jobs and technical vocational skills in greatest demand in each province in order to inform a skills training programme design process.

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Resilience, South & Central AsiaMaryam Meddinlabour, labour market assessment, Balkh, Baghlan, Kunduz, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Mercy Corps, labour market, vocational training, skills training, report, economic assessment