OFRD targets internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees, offering them resources and training to establish food security and rebuild their livelihoods. By empowering farmers and promoting sustainable agriculture, OFRD aims to create a resilient agricultural sector that can support Afghanistan’s food needs and contribute to overall economic stability. Currently, multiple overlapping and compounding crises are contributing to an unprecedented scale of country hunger and malnutrition, exposing the lack of resilience and entrenched systemic challenges within the country agriculture and food security system. OFRD’s programing drives engagement on country hunger issues and tracks humanitarian and development challenges impacting food insecurity and malnutrition.
Roughly one-third of Afghanistan’s GDP is attributed to agricultural activity, with the illicit commercial production of poppy equivalent to between 7 and 12% of GDP. Afghanistan’s service sector has grown, but the economy remains characterized by small-scale export of goods, endemic poverty, and high unemployment. It remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with a poverty rate of 36%. OFRD is working in Afghanistan to find sources of income, job creations and overall economic development through mining, agriculture, poultry, fish farming, dairy, TVET, and Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs). MRL is mainly working for the reintegration of returnees and IDPs to their community development, livelihood, counseling, research, capacity building and economic development opportunities. The legal internal and external migration will contribute to the economic growth, therefore, OFRD works for legal migration and combat illegal migration which have negative impacts on the lives of Afghan people.