Today News Network: AFGHANISTAN: Roads and Reconstruction (UNAMA)

Today Network News: December 18, 2009 - UNAMA: Afghanistan - the road system in Afghanistan, damaged by decades of war and a serious impediment to economic growth, faces reconstruction and rehabilitation. Without critical infrastructure such as roads, many of the provinces of Afghanistan are stopped from getting access to essential services such as education and health. Today, the Afghan government is working with the World Bank and United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOPS) to build roads through its National Rural AccessProgram (NRAP). This program recruits local people to build and rehabilitate thousands of kilometers of roads linking rural areas to urban centers. Mohammad Rasol, a local road workers, says that traveling to Kabul from the central highlands countrys often takes days on foot and road traffic. Now with a new road, the journey will be halved. Soundbite (Dari) Mohammad Rasol, Afghan Masons Road: We are very pleased with the work done here. We also appreciate the governmentsInitiative. If the construction of this road ends, the journey to Kabul will be reduced by half, half and full-day funds. According to UNOPS, the benefits of the program are numerous. A new road is accessibility, open business in rural areas to regional and national markets and lead to a better distribution of resources, technology transfer and productivity improvement. Soundbite (English) Sayeed Khan Ahmadzai, Road Engineer, United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOPS): The main objective ofNRAP is ...

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