Stories from UNODC Afghanistan

UNODC Conducts Two -Day Marketing Workshop

  The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Alternative Development (AD) Programme organized a two-day marketing workshop on 4-5 May 2019 in Kabul. The objective of the workshop was enhancing the marketing skills of selected entrepreneurs who are committed to mainstreaming counter-narcotics efforts through working with those communities which are inclined and susceptible to opium poppy cultivation by incentivizing cultivation of licit crops, providing employment opportunities to recovered drug addicts, spreading counter-narcotics messaging and supporting community development activities such as providing literacy, hygiene, drug education and awareness courses. [Read More]

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Officers from the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan's (CNPA) Mobile Detection Team (MDT) provide training to Uzbek Counterparts

Officers from the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan's (CNPA) Mobile Detection Team (MDT) provide training to Uzbek Counterparts

Five members of the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan's (CNPA) Mobile Detection Team (MDT) together with an international instructor from the Turkish Academy on Drugs and Organized Crime (TADOC) delivered training on "Risk Analysis, Search Techniques and Drug Identification" to 25 officers of the Counter Narcotics Interagency Mobile Teams (IMTs) of the Republic of Uzbekistan from 15 - 17 April 2019.[Read More]

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Farmers’ Day (Mela-e-Dehqaan) celebrated in Badambagh garden in Kabul

The Annual Spring Agriculture Exhibition was held in Badambagh, Kabul from 22 to 26 March 2019. The event was inaugurated by H.E. Nasir Ahmad Durrani, Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), along with other senior officials from the government. It is a place where not only agriculture products and equipment are displayed and traded, but also new ideas and advanced practices exchanged in the field of agriculture, irrigation, high quality seeds production and food preservation. [Read More]

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