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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 |