Norway has provided substantial development assistance to Afghanistan since 2001: more than 600 million. Norwegian assistance was mainly focused on three sectors education, community development and good governance and used a variety of delivery mechanisms, of which the Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund, UN agencies and Norwegian NGOs were the most important. The backbone of this evaluation is the choice of programmes and channels as well as the degrees of freedom that Norway had in making these choices and how these impacted on the improvement of the delivery of public services and on the welfare of the targeted groups. Cross-cutting themes for the evaluation include enhanced governance and gender equality.
Snow covered mountains precursors to the Himalayas- close to Kabul.
