Kabul

UNESCO Kabul Office organised a workshop to discuss the role of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Traditional Knowledge in water management in Afghanistan, inviting participants from FAO, WFP, UNDP, IOM, UNHCR, ActionAid, and HAFO.

“Every morning when we used to take the cows to the pasture, I would go to the hill in front of the boys’ school and watch the school. I loved school before I knew what school meant,” said Basmina, who grew up in Khost province. The school was too far away from Basmina’s village and her father was worried that she would not be safe, and that the community would judge their family.

Fariza Behzad is one of UNESCO’s Basic General Literacy Course learners from  Bamyan province. 

Curriculum developers for general education in Afghanistan are on the journey of developing the new curriculum, including learning resources such as textbooks, teacher guides, and parents’ guides. They are supported by UNESCO, which is providing technical advice and expertise on the development of learning resources in line with the draft national curriculum framework for general education and the education reform directions of the Ministry of Education.