Case studies

Schools are just one beneficiary of Afghanistan's community-led National Solidarity Programme

DFID support helps children return to temporary classrooms on a former Taliban bomb-making site

Quick-sifting mine-clearance machines are helping to detect buried explosives in Afghanistan

Clearing minefields dating from the 1980s is opening up new farming land in western Afghanistan

DFID-funded project brings key services back to communities

People in the city of Lashkar Gah are joining together to improve essential facilities

A new scheme is set to create 20,000 permanent jobs in some of Afghanistan's poorest areas

DFID-funded loans programme is giving farmers the option not to grow illegal opium

Afghan farmers are feeling the benefits of a DFID horticulture and livestock programme

Long a hot-spot for opium farming, Afghanistan's Helmand province is heading in a new direction thanks to an initiative backed by DFID