Canada in Afghanistan – What Should Canada’s Role Be?

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/10/f-afghanistan.html

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/10/f-afghanistan.html

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By: Lindsey Christina

Instructions for Part One: Canada’s Mission Goals - Afghanistan

• For part one of this assignment use the Canadian Government Website:– Canada In Afghanistan

Fill in the slides provided with the information requested in your own words. This is at most a partner (1 or 2 person) assignment!

• Each slide will also contain a picture of Canada’s war/mission in Afghanistan which you will provide a link to. – See the example on the

title page of this presentation and then ask for help if you do not know how to create links.

– You pictures cannot all be from the same site.

Priority One: Security• How is Canada Providing Help?

– Provide 3 pieces of evidence in your own words.

– Training, mentoring and equipping the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police

– Building capacity in logic and administration support

– Initiatives in the justice and correctional systems

– What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?

– Higher capacity to conduct operations and keep key districts of the province of Kandahar more secure

– Promote law and order in key districts of Kandahar

http://29711.vws.primus.ca/focus/16-sept10/16-eng.html

Priority Two: Basic Services• How is Canada Providing Help?

– Provide 3 pieces of evidence in your own words.

– Provide/improve education– Provide vocational training– Create jobs for Afghans and

promote agriculture production and provide access to credit for entrepreneurs

– What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?

– Kandahar’s provincial gov’t and Afghanistan's core government ministries will be able to provide basic services in key districts of Kandahar

– Land benefitting from improved irrigation and water management, built, repaired or expanded schools, trained teachers, new infrastructure plans put into motion, seasonal jobs made

http://www.theafghanschool.org/

Priority Three: Humanitarian Aid• How is Canada Providing Help?

– Canada gives about $111 million over a span of 3 years to help the Afghanistan government help give aid to the Afghan people.

– Canada provides food and non-food aid( blankets, kitchen utensils) to the people who need them.

– Vaccinations are given to those who need them as well as a other health services.

- What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?

- Canada will continue to make humanitarian aid available to the Afghan people.

- To monitor progress- so that the amount of success is known. How many people are getting health care, an education, or vaccinations, and how much land is getting cleared of mines.

http://www.afghanistanchallenge.ca/learn/health

Priority Four: Border

• How is Canada Providing Help?– Provide 3 pieces of evidence in your own words.

– Getting Afghanistan and Pakistan to discuss getting border officials

– Train border officials– Provide infrastructure and

equipment

– What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?

– Institutions will be able to manage the border

– “Foster” economic development in the areas around the border

http://pundita.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html

Priority Five: National Institutions• How is Canada Providing Help?

– Canada provides technical and financial support for the election processes.

– Get other countries to donate to the Independent Elections Commissions.

– Give national institutions/departments with “techy” people, training support, and equipment.

– What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?

– Canada desires that Afghanistan will be capable of carrying out democratic government procedures- elections and other services.

– It is also hoped that Afghanistan will be able to plan on their own and manage the budgeting methods.

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/pages-3/Hamid-Karzai-accused-of-rigging-election-better-than-opponent-Scrape-TV-The-World-on-your-side.html

Priority Six: Reconciliation• How is Canada Providing Help?

– Provide 3 pieces of evidence in your own words.

– Contributes up to $14 million over 3 years

– Help develop Afghan, gov’t-led mechanisms to encourage conversation

– Improve Afghanistan's government's ability to communicate with its citizens

– What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?

– National and provincial gov’t initiatives encourage political reconciliation

– Receive support from Canada quickly

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7806493-pakistan-afghanistan-agree-to-reconvene-joint-peace-jirga

Part 1A: Signature Projects – Canadian Efforts in Afghanistan

• Instructions:Use this link to learn about 3 signature projects that we as the Canadian people have identified as critical for the people of Afghanistan.

- Fill in the following slides with information in your own words about these projects.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/camafghanistancam/3191540321/

http://www.worldbank.org.af/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/SOUTHASIAEXT/AFGHANISTANEXTN/0,,contentMDK:21682753~pagePK:141137~piPK:141127~theSitePK:305985,00.html

http://afghanistan.usaid.gov/en/USAID/Article/1379/National_Immunization_Days_for_Polio_Eradication

Signature Project 1 – Dahla Dam and Irrigation System .

• Why is this an important project for the people of Afghanistan?

• It is important for the people because it will supply irrigation water for the people and their needs, give seasonal jobs, and help the agriculture in Afghanistan.

• What is Canada doing to help? Canada is providing money and doing many of

the repairs to the dam(water valves, generators, etc.)

Training is also providing training for farmers in water management, and other farming techniques.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Canada+pours+money+effort+into+Afghan+irrigation+project/4549790/story.html

Signature Project 2 – Education

• Why is this an important project for the people of Afghanistan?

They have some of the lowest education levels and about half of the children do not go to school

Only about 16% of the people are literate

• What is Canada doing to help? – Find at least 2 pieces of

information to place here. Providing training for up to 3,000

teachers and adult literacy and vocational training

Expanding, repairing or building 50 schools in key districts of Kandahar

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2006/11/27/almost-half-of-all-afghan-children-not-in-school-oxfam.html

Signature Project 3 – Polio Eradication.

• Why is this an important project for the people of Afghanistan?

• Because it means that their children will be protected from this debilitating disease. Less kids will die or have to live with paralysis.

• What is Canada doing to help?• Canada is finding the nomadic routes that are

travelled and establishing points where the polio vaccination is distributed.

• Canada will donate $60 million dollars toward this cause.

http://www.nsnews.com/news/CIDA+crafts+legacy+Afghanistan/2859101/story.html