...is a massive and complex endeavor that is faced with numerous challenges and obstacles. The Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS) and the Afghan Millennium Development Goals (MDG) present comprehensive plans. The strategies to meet those goals and accomplish this huge task have yet to be adopted by the government of Afghanistan. That does not mean the government and the international community are not already working on many of the issues identified in both these documents. Quite the contrary, redevelopment has been going on in one way or another for several years. It does not seem as though there was a clear strategic plan to begin with. Officials needed to begin with an overall strategy of how each of the goals was to be approached.
To review, this is a country that was destroyed over more than two decades of war and conflicts. The infrastructure was demolished,...