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Kunar Province

General Kunar province is located approximately 99km away to the north of Nangarhar and east of Nooristan provinces with a long mountainous border of 250km with Pakistan to the east. The province is consists of 14 districts, which include these include Noorgal, Sawkay, Narang, Khas Kunar, Sarkanho, Chapah Darah, Manhogay, Wata Poor, Shegal, Marawara, Asmaar. Around 90 per cent (22536 Hectares) of the landmass is mountainous covered with pine, cedar, okas and unknown varieties of woods (Fig. 1.1). Main Crop products are Wheat, Maze, Rice, Malt and vegetables. 4.3.1 Demography According to the UNICEF best estimate provincial sub-sheet, the total population of Kunar province is around 441243 people. More than 50% of population dwells on foothills, gentle slopes of the mountains whereas the rest of the population lives on flat land alongside Kunar River. Pashtoon 98 percent is the dominant ethnic group with 2% Nooristanis and Gujar tribes. The literacy rate in Kunar province, reaches to 30% percent of the total population including women with more or less 7 percent (deputy director of education in Kunar). Owing to its strategic location difficult terrain and tribal system central governments always face problems of control over remote areas. 4.3.2 Climate The climate of Kunar as Nooristan province is generally classified as being rainy and cold throughout the year however with four distinct seasons in most parts and two seasons in upper parts that remains covered almost six months under snow. Kunar River, which originates from overflow for the period of almost 5 months between March and August, brings large quantities of soil cause sedimentation and close irrigation channels. Sometimes sweep across agriculture land and wash away rice and corn crops and make destruction to residential areas on its banks. 4.3.3 Sustainable Livelihoods Animal and forest production provide the main sources of livelihoods for the people. The size of arable lands is limited. Subsistence agriculture is mostly practiced alongside Kunar River. As with regard to forestry, the on-going massive deforestation of wood plantations for timber and household energy has culminated into severe land degradation problems, in this regard the good news is that since the arrival of new governor, he has imposed restriction of selling woods. Rice beans and corn are the main crops of Kunar The rate of return from timber trade to Pakistan and the Gulf States is in no way paying off for the serious damage caused to this rare habitat. The situation has been even more aggravated by the repetitive outbreak of annual fires, mostly resulting from fighting. Most of the population dwelling closed to the border depends for their livelihood on trading contraband across Pak/Afghan border. 4.3.4 Government Institutions The structure of provincial governments is almost the same across the country. Education, Public Health, Agriculture, Public Work, Irrigation and RRD and the department of Economy and Planning constitute the main provincial offices of Kunar Province. Owing to political instability and loose control of the central government in the past these departments are subject to constant reshuffling in this regard Ministry of Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission (IARCSC) has already started its reform of line departments in Kunar province. So far only Director of Agriculture and RRD along with some staff have been through this process. In most cases, directors/key positions are filled on the basis of political affiliation, friend/kinships and other recognition. The absence of sectoral policies that should guide the operational functions of those departments adds to the density of the problem. For details on the government organizational structure please refer to annex-1 Contact list of govt. institutions at District level: S/no District Governor Security Attorney Court 1 Noorgal Shah Jahan 2 Sawkay Sayed Shah Mahmood 3 Narang Abdul Manan Stanakzai 4 Khas Kunar Mohammad Tahir 5 Sarkanho Nasratullah Khan 6 Chapah Darah Abdul Gheyas 7 Manhogay Mohammad Rahman 8 Wata Poor Zalmay Khan 9 Marawara Sayed Mahboob Pacha 10 Shegal Abdul Zaher 11 Asmaar Haji Ghulam Nabi 12 Dangaam Farooq Jahan 13 Narhay Musafer Khan 14 Ghazi Abad Abdul Khalil 4.3.5 Provincial Council: ????????/. The council will have regular meeting as twice a month. The governor will seek PC’s advice on time to time bases. Please find below list of PC member: S/no Name Title Mobile 1 Haji Abdul Wali Head of PC Kunar 070 633 973 2 Sayed Ghawhar Shah Deputy of PC 070 642 228 070 649 998 3 Mawlawi Izatullah Secretary of PC 070 642 313 4 Tawraj PC member 070 269 512 070 269 517 5 Toor Piky PC member 070 644 331 6 Haji Sakhi PC member 070 641 543 7 Haji Saleh PC member 070 641 201 8 Haji Khan Jan PC member 070 641 314 9 Suhail PC member 070 641 356 GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TELEPHONE DIRECTORY KUNAR-ASSADABAD (Annex - 1) No NAME DEPARTMENT MOBILE NUMBER REMARK 1 Haji Didar Governor 2 Deputy Governor 070 640 660 3 Fazal Akbar Aministrative Officer 070623661 4 Abdul Ghafar CoP 070211326 5 Muhammad Hassan City Security Chief 070641844 6 Abdul Ghafoor Finance 070181331 7 Haji Sayed Amin Mayor 070641940 8 Amir Mohamad Confidentional Documents 070634816 9 Qazi Amanullah Court 070635131 10 Abdul Majeed Merhanay Director of Education 070642186 11 Eng. Ghulamullah Deputy Director of Education 070 643 594 12 Zahidullah Zahid Kunar`s Radio head 070641818 13 Nimatullah Bakhter Agency 070642300 14 Rashidullah Zalmy Director of Agriculture 070640864 15 16 Mohamad Iayan Attorney 070074437 17 Haji Mohmad Jafar Rural Devolopment 070642426 18 Eng. Ghulam Hassan PMA/RRD 070642323 19 Haji Sardar Khan Director of Disables Dept. 070636018 20 Deputy Director of Disables Depts. 21 Eng. Mohammad Rahim Director of Public Works Dept. 070628245 22 Deputy Director of Public Works Dept. 23 Eng. Nisar Ahmad DIAG Coordinator 070 609 659 24 Mohammad Gul Criminal Department 070 628 245 25 Haji Malang Returness 070640874 26 Haji Shamsul Haq Department of Law 070641680 27 Haji Noor Mohamad Irrigation 070640830 28 Haji Shir Gul Haj and Islamic trust 070269517 29 Haji Sayed Ahmad Communication 070642006 30 Mohamad Shifa Cultur and infromation 070637403 31 Gul Hakim ARCS 070641510 32 Marhaba DoWA 070641853 33 Mahsal Khan Envirenmental Protection 070642400 34 Haji Asadullah Public Health 070640881 35 Dost Mohamad Khan Tribes and borders 070642284 4.3.6 Basic Social Services Kunar occupy a position of secondary importance among other provinces in terms of income, population size and other factors. The levels of Basic social services are almost the same as in other remote and underserved districts. A. Health Sector There is only one hospital in Assadabad (Fig. 1.2, the map need to be updated) the center of Kunarh with the capacity of 45 to 40 beds for in patients with a basic health clinic in each district head quarter, beside that below number of health facilites are mentioned district wise. S/no District Number of CHC Number of BSC 1 Noorgal 1, dist. center 1 at Mazar valley 2 Chawki 1, dist. center 1 at Dewagal valley 3 Sakany 1, dist. center 1 at Badil Dara 4 Khas Kunar 1, dist. center 1 at Shonkray village 5 Marawar 1, dist. center 1 at Shalay village 6 Shegal n/a 1 at dist. center 7 Dangam n/a 1 at dist. center 8 Ghazi Abad n/a 1 at dist. center 9 Asmar 1, dist. center n/a 10 Naray 1, at barikot village 1 at dist. center 11 Watapoor n/a 1 at dist. center 12 Manogay 1 dist. center 1 at Barkanday village 13 Chapa Darah 1, dist. center 2 one at Lenda Lam village and second at Gul Salak B. Education Sector Although the quality of education is below the standard, schooling facilities exist allover the province at least a high school per district with a number of primary schools at large villages. According to education directorate they have proposed for year 2006 to increase the number of professional teachers as well as construction of new school buildings in the province. As at this point of time we have total of 298 schools, where around 84 schools has buildings (primary, middle and high) with a number of approx. 100,000 students (45% girls and 55% boys) that is not sufficient for the increasing number of students, also its worth mentioning that according to our assessment the number of students may increase to 125,000 (deputy director of education). 43.8% boys and 49% girls are admitted in Schools. 31000 school aged boys are deprived from school yet. 9% women of the population are literate and 92000 are illiterate. 1. Number of Primary Schools: 201 2. Number of Middle Schools: 61 3. Number of High schools: 36 4. and Number of Religious Schools (Madrasa’z): 15 C. Agriculture Sector Irrigation canals, water-intakes and Karizes, which are vital for subsistent agriculture, have been rehabilitated by the aid agencies and still going on. According to the department of agriculture, 22536 Hectares is forestry, 18000 Hectares is irrigated, 6000 Hectares is arable and 7000 is fallow land. 3.3.7 Development Activities A. Road Condition Since its strategic location Kunar province, which is of much importance in the eastern region, the Govt. of Afghanistan has been trying to consider the difficult terrain of the province in terms to promote accessibility to the province, thus they extended several gravel roads to different remote areas i.e. Jalalabad-Assadabad, Jalalabad-Khas Kunar, Khas Kunar- Nawapas (bordering area with Pakistan-Mohmad Agency), Noorgal-Mazar valley, Chawki-Dewagal Valley, Assadab-Peech vally etc. Following the establishment of new Govt. Jalalabad-Assadabad road was given to a Turkish construction company, but due to security reasons it was postponed. At the moment an Indian company is carrying out this task to asphalt the aforementioned road with a total distance of 146km. (Fig 1.3) International Community is also concerned in terms of its expansion. International community (PRT, GTZ/PAL, DAI/ALP, UNAMA, WFP, WHO, UNICEF, UNODC, UNAMAC and other I/GO´s) are working in different sectors, for full detailed activities please refer to Annex-2. 4.3.8 Returnees Since Pakistan finally decided to close refugee’s camps in Bajawar and Kurma Agency. All the refugees in above-mentioned areas were suppose to leave before 31st of Aug-05. After that announcement UNHCR decided to deploy their assessment teams to Bajawar and Kurma Agency to provide the list of returnees. In addition, those refugees living in urban areas were also informed to leave the country by 15 Sep-05. Most of the refuges in the aforementioned camps belong to Nangrahar and Kunar provinces. Returnees In Kunar province are accommodated at Khas Kunar, Tango, Sagi, Assadabad and other surrounding districts. UNHCR Sub-Office in Jalalabad has provided with following summary sheet of the repatriation from 2001-2005 to Kunar province: S/no District Number of Families Male Female Total 1 Asad Abad 1851 5655 5788 11443 2 Bar Kunar 327 1164 1148 2312 3 Chapa Dara 52 147 153 300 4 Chawkay 850 2598 2564 5162 5 Dangam 113 321 358 679 6 Khas Kunar 853 2546 2511 5057 7 Marawara 641 1943 1890 3832 8 Narang 509 1567 1539 3106 9 Naray 233 801 774 1575 10 Noorgal 455 1355 1335 2690 11 Peech 1133 3405 3426 6831 12 Shegal 367 1061 1041 2102 13 Sarkanay 382 1147 1145 2292 14 Watapoor 369 1109 1113 2222 Total 8180 v 24819 24785 49603 A. Assistance provided: UNHCR has provided with following assistance through Department of Public Health in Kunar: 1. To provide basic health services for returnees 2. Construction of Shelter for returnees 3. One room shelter for FATA returnees in Khas Kunar area 4. Organized income generating/vocational training programs in chawki district of Kunar province 5. Under agency operational support, UNHCR supported returnees and IDP’s. 6. Repaired and maintained Irrigation intakes 7. support to returnee and IDP’s against gender violence 4.3.9 DIAG/Reconciliation process: Due to its difficult terrain especially North East and southern parts of Kunar province are most of the time used as a hub by the insurgents. At this point of time Korangal, Kandagal villages are marked as hot spots, where the AGE’s still exists. In this regard the governor of Kunar has established a neutral council of community elders to negotiate with AGE’s for their surrender and further extension of their support. According to DIAG focal point around ……….Ex-commanders as well as local inhabitants of Kunar province have surrender their weapons. For the better awareness on DIAG, they have assigned awareness teams to different districts of Kunar, beside those Govt. departments i.e. Department of Information and Culture and Radio/TV Kunar are assisting to promote awareness of the local inhabitants. Source:reachback.org - بېرته شاته