EFG Events

Workshop with the Institute for Media and Global Governance - Afghans in the Lead

Afghans in the Lead 
The Challenges of Recovery

      

Part I: 
Held in Geneva (Chateau de Penthes)


Part II: 
Held in Kabul

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Brainstorming Structure:

Introduction:
- What is the current situation? With factual evidence
- Long Term Recovery
- What do Afghans really want?
- Who is best placed to give them what they want?

Panel 1: Engaging Communities
- Refocusing on rural areas
- With/without security: civil/military relations and establishing trust
- Community hubs of health and education
- What is working and what isn’t?
- Failure of justice plus lack of trust: 30 year perspective
- Practical steps for everyday justice
- Remedying corruption among Afghan and international players, including: Judges, police, military, government, private military contractors, etc.

Panel 3: Investing in Afghans
- Economics and agriculture - Trade
- Private/public investment
- Focus on viability + sustainability
- Bring livelihoods back to Afghanistan
- NSP as a model?

Panel 4: Realities for the International Communities
- What should be the role of ISAF and regional players?
- What Is - and should there be - a role of the UN?
- Decreasing the role of the US
- How can the international aid community work with Civil Society?
- Private sector potential (ex-pats + Afghans)

       At the end of each day, the participants will divide into small groups that will produce pragmatic suggestions for moving forward. Presentation of these insights will take place at the conclusion of the brainstorming. A more detailed ‘action’ report will be produced and distributed in response to the recommendations raised by the meeting. The report will include the initial five commissioned articles, notes from the sessions, the actions that result from each breakout session, as well as further information. This report will be distributed freely to attending organizations as well as non-attendee organizations and governments.