Archived Document
Quarterly Report
Canadian Priorities: Making and Measuring Progress
Priority 6. Facilitate Afghan-led efforts toward political reconciliation.
Political Reconciliation
Canada will support:
- the development of mechanisms that will encourage dialogue;
- the improvement of capacity to communicate with citizens; and
- the strengthening of civil society capacity to promote reconciliation.
Afghanistan cannot secure peace or realize its governance and development objectives by military means alone. An Afghan-led, internationally supported reconciliation process can serve to weaken the insurgency, heal communal divisions and foster a sustainable peace. For its part, the Afghan government has been pursuing reconciliation with support from donor governments and ISAF partners. Programs encouraging the demobilization of former armed fighters count among these reconciliation initiatives. Canadian efforts to improve security and strengthen governance and the economy in Kandahar would benefit from reconciliation successes.
Canada will seek opportunities to fund new and dynamic Afghan-led national and local initiatives to encourage dialogue and reconciliation, particularly in Kandahar. We will fund efforts to build the Afghan government’s capacity to better communicate with its citizens, particularly in Kandahar.
Canadian Objective for 2011:
- By 2011, we expect that national and provincial Afghan government initiatives will encourage political reconciliation and receive timely support from Canada.
We will measure progress toward this objective with indicators such as effective communication by the Afghan government with its citizens, evidence of political reconciliation among Afghans, and broadened popular support for Afghan institutions.
