RAP

Since 1989 CARE's Rural Assistance Program (RAP) has been supporting rural households' livelihoods by promoting food production, improving health and sanitation, and enhancing the role of women in the community development [process. RAP does this by encouraging communities to identify their own priority needs through Participatory Rapid Assessments (PRAs). Using their years of experience in rural rehabilitation programs, RAP staff mobilize people to find solutions to their own problems, providing engineering, project management and training support to implement projects that each community identifies.

in addition to other projects, RAP continued to implement the National Solidarity Program (NSP).  The NSP, created by the Government of Afghanistan, is famously known as “the largest people’s project in the history of Afghanistan” and builds the capacity of each community in financial management, procurement, technical skills, and transparency.