List of Acronyms

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Term Definition
A        
A L A Afghanistan Lawyers Association
AA American Annex
AAA Action Aid Afghanistan
AACA Afghan Assistance Coordination Authority
AAR(JAPAN) Association for Aid and Relief, Japan
ABLE ARIC BOX LIBRARY EXTENSION
AC Altai Consulting
AC1 Afghan Center
ACBAR Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief
ACBL The Afghan Campaign to Ban Landmines
ACD Agriculture & Construction Development
ACE Army Corps Of Eng
ACF Action Contre la Faim
ACLU Afghan Construction & Logistics Unit
A Conts Abadi Construction
ACS Afghans for Civil Society
ACSC Afghn Comercial and Service Center
ACSF ACSF- Swiss Peace
ACSOR Afghanis Center F Sochio Economic A Opinion Search
ACTED Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development
ActionAid ActionAid Afghanistan
AD Alarco- Dogus
ADA Afghan Development Association
ADB Asian Development Bank
ADP Afghan Development Program
ADRA Adventist Development and Relief Agency
ADYR Association of Defenders of Youth Rights
AE Allied Equipment
AF Asia Foundation
AF 1 Afghan Film
Afaa Afghanistan Assistance Agency
AFG-US Dev.Corp AFG- US Development Corporation
AGCHO Afghan Geodesy And Cartography Head Office
AGEF Association of Experts in the Field of Migration
AGHCO Afghan - German Help Coordination Office
AHDS Afghan Health and Development Services
AHSAO Afghans Health and Social Assistance Organization
AI Amensty International
AIHRC Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
AIL Afghan Institute of Learning
AIMS Afghanistan Information Management Service
AITM Afghan Inkishafee Tarbiawee Markaz
AJP Afghan Justice Pjt In Cooperation Hr Commission
AKDN Agha Khan Development Network
aknc Agha Khan National Council
AKTC Aga Khan Trust For Culture
ALARKO- DOGUS JV ALARKO- DOGUS JV
ALTAI ALTAI Consulting
AMA Afghan Medical Aid
AMAC Area Mine Action Center
AMI Aide Médicale Internationale
ANBP Afghan New Beginning Program
ANCB Afghan NGOs Coordination Bureau
ANSO Afghanistan NGO Security Office
AP Associated Press
APB Aghanistan Programming  Body
APP Afghan Projecr Partner
ARIC ACBAR Resource Information center
ARC Afghan Relife Committee
ARCS Afghan Red Cresent
AREA Agency for Rehabilitation & Energy conservation in
AREU Afghanistan Research & Evaluation Unit
Ariana Telecom Ariana Telecom
ARLDF Asian Rural Life Devt. Foundation
ARM Afghanistan Reconstruction Movement
ARPD Afghanistan Reconstruction Planning Agency
ARRI Albironi Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Institute
ASCO Afghanistan Shuhada Charity Organization
ASG Afghanistan Support Group
ASI Adam Smith Institute
ASO Afghanistan Solidarity Org
ATCE Afghan Turk Laisa
ATIMS Activities Tracking Information Management System
ATP AUS.TEC Precision
AWC Afghan Women Community
AWE Afghan Womens Education
AWHA Afghan Women High Association
AWPD Afghan Women Resource Center
AYU Afghan Youth Union
B  
BAS Basic Afghanistan Service
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BCCC Baytur Construction&contracting Co.
BCSA Bamdad -e- Andish Association
BHC Benzene HexaChloride, a persistent organo-chloride insecticide"related" to DDT
BIL TEK BIL TEK
BP Bearing Point
BRAC Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee
BRCO Bahar Rehabilitation and Construction Agency
BTW Beyond Tears Worldwide
C  
C Int Counterpart International
CA Cristian Aid
CADA Central Asian Development Agency
cadg Central Asia Development Group
CAFÉ Central Asian Free Exchange
CAII Creative Associat International
CAN Commission against Narcotics
CAP Consolidated Appeal (for humanitarian assistance)
CARE CARE International in Afghanistan
CAWC Central Afghanistan Welfare Committee
CCA Cooperation Center for Afghanistan
CCGH Coordination Cell for Governor House
CDAP Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs
CDI Crosslink Development International
CDU Country Development Unit
CENGIZ CENGIZ Construction Co. Ltd
CERE Techs Ceretechs
CES Consulting Engineers Services
CFA Child Fund Afghanistan
CFCA Committee for a Free Choice for the Afghan
CGHA Coordinator German Humanit.aid
CHA Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance
CHC Canadian High Commission
CHLC Coalition Humanitarian Liaison Center - Kandahar
CHR CHR. Michelsen Inst. Devl. Studies & Human Rights
CI Chemonics International
CIC Children in Crisis
CIMMYT The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico
CJCMOTF Coalition Joint Civil Military Operations Task For
Ckurova CUKUROVA
CMOC US Army CMOC
CNH Case New Holland
CNN CNN
CoAR Coordination of Afghan Relief
Contrack/ Intl Contrack/ Intl
COOPI COOPI-Coperazione Internazionale
CORDAID Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development A
CR China Railway
CRC Convention on the Rights of the Child
CRS Catholic Relief Services
CSO Central Statistics Office
CSSA Construction and Sustainable Services for Afg
CUUA Council of Understanding and Unity of Afghanistan
D  
D.A.F.A D.A.F.A
DAAD DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
DAC The Danish Afghanistan Committee
DACAAR Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees
Danish Embassy Danish Embassy
DAP Di-Ammonium Phosphate, a phosphate fertilizer
DCA Dutch Committee for Afganistan
DDG Danish Demining Group
DDR Disarmaments Demobilization and Reintegration
DDT Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane – a persistent organo-chlorine insecticide which accmulates in animal fatty tissues and enters the food chain causing a number of undesired environmental effects, most notably the demise of populations of many exotic birds of prey between 1945 and 1960, opening up the "environmental debate".
Dep.Municipality Dep.Municipality
DNC DAI NIPPON
DORA Development Organization for the Revival of Afg
DP Daxin Petroleum
DTC Destitute Training Centre
Dutch Emb. Dutch Embassy
DWC Development Works Canada
E  
EA Equal Access
EC European Commission
ECI Educational Concepts International
EMDAD Engineering and Medical Department for Afghanistan
EMDH Enfants du Monde - Droits de l Homme
EO Electoral Office
F  
FAIDEX Faidex  Bureau  Veritas
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na
FCO Fotuh Construction Organization
FEWS NET AFG Fews Net Afghanistan
FFS Farmers Field School – an integral part of the participatory approach in which technical information is transferred to farmers whereby farmers learn by doing in the own fields and by demonstration identifying the solutions to their own problems
FHI 1 Food For The Hungry Intl
FM Freedom Midicine
FMB The First Microfinance Bank
FMFB AFG First Microfinance Bank Afghanistan
FOA INTERNATIONAL Friends Of Afghanistan
FOCUS Focus Humanitarian Assistance
Food-For-Seed Arrangement between WFP and FAO to substitute cash payments with food grain in echanges for wheat seed produced by contracted seed growers
Food-For-Work Arrangement between WFP and other agencies to support sub-projects and programms by paying for labor with food grain.
FOGS Faculty Of Geo Science
FS Fonds of Solidarite
G  
GAA Deutsche Welthungerhilfe -German Agro Action
GAAE German Association For Adult Education
GHO Gowharshad Humanitarian Organization
GI Gestoconcept Inc
GP Global Partners
GPP German Police Project
GR German Radio
GRSP Ghazni Rural Support program
GTZ German Technical cooperation
CVC Civil Volunteer Group
H  
HA One hectare – 10000 square metres
HAA Humanitarian Assistance for Afghanistan
HAC Help The Afghan Children
HAND Humanitarian Assistance Network and Development
HC Humanitarian Community
HCC Humanitarian Cargo Carriers
HFHI Habitat for Humanity International
HI Handicap International
HIFAB HIFAB International
HNI Health Net International
HOCA Health Organization for Central Afghanistan
HOPE HOPE worldwide
HRCP Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
HRW Human Rights Watch
HT Halo Trust
HWCMC Haroon Walid Construction & Manufacturing Company
I  
IA Italian Archaelogical
IAM International Assistance Mission
Ibne Sina Ibne Sina Public Health Program For Afghanistan
IC Italian Co-Operation
ICJ Itochu Corporation Japan
ICMC International Catholic Migration Commission
ICARDA The International Centre for Research into Arid Agriculture, Aleppo, Spain
ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross
IDP Internally Displaced People
IFDC An International Center for Soil Fertility and Agriculture Development
IFH International Foundation Of Hope
IFRC International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cres
IG Inwent  Grmany
IIBC Commonwealth Agriculture Bureau International Institute of Biological Control
IMC International Medical Corps
IMF International Monetary Fund
INTERSOS INTERSOS - Humanitarian Aid Organization
IOM International Organization for Migration
IPC International Poor Concern
IPGRI International Plant Genetic Resource Institute, Rome, Italy
IPM Integrated Pest Management – a farmer and environmentally-friendly plant protection idology, developed in the wake of the realization that the use of pesticides actually created pest problems.
IPP Dyn Corp International Police Program
IR (UK) Islamic Relief (United Kingdom)
IRC International Rescue Committee
IRRI International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines.
ISE Improved Seed Enterprise – parastatal formerly Afghan Seed Company attached to the Ministry of Agriculture.
ISRA Islamic Relief Agency
ITAP Immediate and Transitional Assistance Programme
IWPR IWPR
J  
JC Judical Commission
JDA Joint Development Association
JEN JEN (Formerly, Japan Emergency NGOs)
JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency
JICS Japan International Cooperation System
John Gunston John Gunston
JTCS Japan Telecom Consultant Service
JUNIC The Joint United Nations Information Committee
JVC Japan International Volunteer Center
K  
KC Kocks Consultant
KCC Kitano Construction Corporation
KCCJ Konoike Constaruction Coltd Japan
KEU Korean Engineer Unit
KFFWA Korean Foundation For World Aid
KGO Kabul Government Office
KI Kinderberg International
KMPA Korea Man Power agency
KNF Koh-Noor Foundation
KOEL KIRLOSKAR OIL ENGINES LTD
KRA Kunduz Rehabilitation Agency
KSH Kabul Serena Hotel
L  
L.LTD Liwal Limited
LBG Louis Berger Group
LE Living Education
LICOMI Liaison and Consultancy for Misereor
Liebherr Liebherr Export Ag
LC Limal Construction
LL Logimix Ltd/ Finpro
LPP Lonely Planet Publications
M  
MAI Media Action International
MC Mercy Corps
MCPA Mine Clearance Planning Agency
MDM Medicos Del Mundo - Spain
MDM-F Médecins du Monde - France
MDM-P Médicos do Mundo - Portugal
MeRU Medical Relief Unit, Japan (Nihon Iryou Kyuuen Kik
MF Mike Frastacky
MHD Malteser Hilfsdienst e.V.
MHI Muslim Hands International
MoPH Ministry of Public Health
MPRD Ministry of Rural and Rehabilitation Development
MRCA Medical Refresher Courses for Afghans
MS Maxwell Stamp
MSD Morning Star Development
MSF Médecins Sans Frontières
MSF-H Medecin Sans Frontieres (Holland)
MSH Management Science for Health
MSI MARIE STOPES INTERNATIONAL
N                                
NAC Norwegian Afghanistan Committee
NCA Norwegian Church Aid
ND News Day
NDI National Democratic Institute
NESPAK National Engeeinering Service Pakistan Pvt Limited
NGO Non-government Organization: non-profit making "implementing partners", frequently used by UN agencies to deliver projects and programmes.
NK Nippon Koe
NNA Norconsolt Norplan Association
NOVIB Netherlands Organization for International Development Cooperation
NPO-RRA Norwegian Project Office-Rural Rehabilitation Asso
NPPP National Professional Project Personnel
NR Noor Academy
NRC NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL
NRPA National Reconcilation Party Of Afghanistan
NRR Nahrin Reconstruction And Rehabilitation Org
O  
OHA Organization for humanitarian Assistance
OI Ockenden International
O-P Organo Phosphate. A group of insecticides with general broad-spectrum activity
ORAI Orphans Refugees and Aid International
P  
PACTEC Partners in Aviation and Communications Technology
PCRB Pamir Charity Relief Bureay
PI Philadelphia Inqvirer
PINF People in Need Foundation
PMS Peshawar Medical Services (Japan)
PPQD Plant Protection and Quarantine Department – for the ministry of agriculture, used in the northern provinces to implement plant protection sub-projects and programmes.
PR Park Resident
PRB Partners in Revitalization and Building
PRT Provincial Reconstruction Team
PSF Pharmacists without borders
PT Park Telecom
PU PREMIERE URGENCE
PWJ Peace Winds Japan
R  
RADA Rehabilitation Agency for Development of Afghanistan
RAMP Rebuilding Agriculture Markets Program Afghanistan
RDA Reconstrution and Development Association
RDO Rehabilitation and Development Organization
RI Relief International
ROAOW Relief Organization for Afghan Orphans and Women
RRO Rosteen Reconstruction Organization
RTI Rai TV Italian
S  
S Int Sanp International
S.D Southern Development
SAB Solidarite Afghanistan Belgium
SAC Swedish Afghan Committee
SAE Society of Afghan Engineers
SC Samwhan Corporation
SCA Swedish Committee for Afghanistan
SCS Save the Children Sweden
SC-UK Save the Children UK
SC-US Save the Children US
SDC Swiss Agency For Development And Cooperation
SDF Sanayee Development Foundation
SDHCO Social Development And Health Care Organization
SFAO Save the Forest Animals Organization
SFL Shelter For Life
SGAA Sandy Galls Afghanistan Appeal
SI Sanp International
SIDA Department of Overseas Aid of the Government of Sweden
SNI Shelter Now International
SORVACH Services organization for rehabilitation, vocation
SP Swiss Peace
SPDI Sustainable Policy Development Institute
SPIR Samaritans Purse International Relief
SRA Shendand Construction Agency
STA Senior Technical Advisor
SWABAC South Western Afghanistan and Balochistan Associat
SWB Sport Without Borders
T                                
TCJ Tobishima Corporation Japan
TDCA Telecom Devrelopment Company Afghanistan Ltd
Tdh Terre des hommes
TF Tearfund
THW Technisches Hilf Werk
TSR Transport Sector Review
TT Telecom Telematique
U                                
ULV Ultra Low Volume – A spray applications technology that uses very small droplets and relies on drift to apply about one litre of concentrated pesticide formulation per hectare, particularly well adapted for aerial and ground application against locusts.
UMCOR Umited Methodist Committee on Relief
UNAMA United Nations Assistance Mission for Afghanistan
UNCC United Nations Compensation Commission
UNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
UN-HABITAT United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
UNCO United Nations Office of the Coordinator
UNCSD United Nations Common Supplier Database
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNDCP United Nations International Drug Control Programm
UNDP United Nations Development Program
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCAP United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
UNESCO United Nations Educational Scientific and Culture
UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
UNFSO United Nations Field Security Office
UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNHSP UN Habitat
UNICEF United Nations Childrens Fund
UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNIFEM United Nations Development Fund for Women
UNITAR United Nations Institute for Training and Research
UNJLC United Nations Joint Logistic Cell
UNMACA United Nations Mine Action Center for Afghanistan
UNODC United Nations Office of Drug and Crime
UNOPS United Nations Office for project services
UNSECOORD United Nation Field Security Office
UNSMA United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan
UNV United Nations Volunteers
URF/ KFW Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau
US- ACE US Army Corps of Engineers
US Army Coalition Forces/Partners
US- GS US Geological Survey
USAID USAID
V  
VAF VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION
VARA Voluntary Association for Rehabilitation of Afghan
VV Village Voice
W  
W4W Women for Women International - Afghanistan
WA World Advocates
WB World Bank
WC War Child
WCS World Church Service
WDWW Who's doing What Where
WFP United Nations World Food Programme
WHO World Health Organization
WTC World Trade Center
WUFA Writers Union of Free Afghanistan
WV World Vision
WVI World Vision International - Afghanistan
WWI Women for Women International
Z  
ZG Zevitaka Group
ZOA ZOA Refugee Care