ACBAR

About ACBAR

ACBAR is a trusted, neutral intermediary within Afghanistan’s humanitarian and development landscape. With over 30 years of experience and a membership of more than 230 NGOs (NNGOs, INGOs), ACBAR has strong convening and coordination power that underpins its legitimacy. Through established national and sub-national platforms, including coordination meetings, advisory bodies, and donor and policy forums, ACBAR reduces duplication, promotes complementarity, and enables timely information sharing among NGOs, donors, UN agencies, and other stakeholders.

Current Humanitarian Context:
Afghanistan’s humanitarian and development landscape is undergoing a structural transformation. Declining aid flows, shifting donor priorities toward Basic Human Needs (BHN) approaches, increased pressure for localization, and a complex and evolving political...

About ACBAR

Information Sharing & Coordination

ACBAR Information and Coordination Department activities Strengthen coordination responses, roles and activities to enable and improve members’ activities in Afghanistan. Support collection and sharing of essential information among member NGOs and stakeholders (including civil society, donors, the UN, the media...

Advocacy, Inclusion and Enabling Environments

ACBAR continues to support its members in navigating an increasingly complex and restrictive operational environment in Afghanistan. Ongoing regulatory challenges, shrinking humanitarian funding, operational disruptions, and restrictions affecting humanitarian actors—particularly Afghan women staff and women-led organizations—continue to impact the ability...

Capacity Strengthening and Organization Development

For more than a decade, ACBAR has remained committed to strengthening the institutional, technical, and operational capacities of national and local NGOs across Afghanistan. As humanitarian needs continue to evolve and localization becomes increasingly central to the aid architecture, ACBAR...