Opening Credit - Fid Higher Education
Recent studies commissioned by DFID show that Afghanistan will be strongly affected by climate change principally as a result of changes in the hydrological cycle. Improved land and water resources management is hence the way to spur development and reduce vulnerability. To achieve this, watershed management is a widely accepted approach. There is, however, very little professional and institutional capacity to support SLM Sustainable Land Management. Afghan and international development and humanitarian institutions have increasingly recognized this and have come up with the idea of setting up a training to be headquartered in Bamyan, the Sustainable Land Management Institute of Afghanistan (SLMIA). The objectives of SLMIA are: 1) enhanced knowledge and skills of professionals, field technicians and extension workers for participatory and integrated sustainable land and water management; 2) enhanced local capacity to lead and manage land and water management initiatives through advising; and 3) identification, documentation and dissemination of locally relevant potential techniques and tools in SLM and improved coordination amongst SLM-related institutions. After its formal establishment, one of SLMIA’s first activities will be to develop a plan aimed at achieving institutional sustainability within 10 years. SDC’s involvement in SLMIA is aimed at being increasingly present in the national dialogue on rural development.
| Country/region | Topic | Period | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Afghanistan |
Education Water Climate change and environment Agriculture & food security
Tertiary education
Water resources conservation Environmental policy Agriculture value-chain development (til 2016) |
01.12.2009
- 30.06.2015 |
CHF 2'725'000
|
- HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
-
Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation EDUCATION
WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION
WATER SUPPLY & SANITATION
GENERAL ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION
OTHER MULTISECTOR
Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation Higher education
Water resources conservation (including data collection)
Water resources conservation (including data collection)
Environmental policy and administrative management
Rural development
Cross-cutting topics The project promotes biodiversity as a priority.
The project promotes biodiversity.
Crisis prevention
The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme.
The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes.
The project also supports partner organisation improvements
Type of support Official development assistance (ODA)
Type of collaboration Bilateral cooperation
Finance type Aid grant
Aid Type Project and programme contribution
Tied/untied aid Untied aid
Project number 7F07202
| Directorate/federal office responsible |
SDC |
| Credit area |
Development cooperation |
| Project partners |
Contract partner Swiss Non-profit Organisation |
| Budget | Current phase Swiss budget CHF 2'725'000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF 2'645'878 |
| Project phases |
Phase 2
01.07.2015
- 30.09.2016
(Completed)
Phase 1 01.12.2009 - 30.06.2015 (Completed) |