The National Solidarity Programme (NSP) was created in 2003 by the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development to develop the ability of Afghan communities to identify, plan, manage and monitor their own development projects. Through the promotion of good local governance, the NSP works to empower rural communities to make decision affecting their own lives and livelihoods. Empowered rural communities collectively contribute to increased human security. The programme is inclusively supporting all of the communities including the poorest and vulnerable people.  NSP strongly promotes a unique development paradigm,whereby communities can make important decisions and participate in all stages of their development,contributing their own resources. With the support of FPs, communities elect their leaders and representatives to form voluntary Community Development Councils (CDCs) through a transparent and democratic process

Welcome to the NSP website and the good news the programme has to share, the first and second phases of the National Solidarity Programme of the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development MRRD/NSP have been successfully executed with results that justify its prominence as the nation’s flagship development programme. With NSP support, villages across Afghanistan are on the move!

More than 70% of rural communities have mobilized, 30,694 have elected local councils to represent themselves. These Community Development Councils (CDCs) have prioritized needs and planned, managed, and monitored over 69,714 subprojects made possible by block grants that have already supplied more than USD 1,156 million to community-driven rural reconstruction and development. In this process, NSP has led the new nation’s ‘reach’ to rural communities and laid the foundations for inclusive and progressive local governance in almost 367 districts and every province of Afghanistan. More