Annual Report - Global Partnership for Afghanistan

2008
Annual Report
Global Partnership
for Afghanistan

“GPFA’s work is a model for others. You
are helping women to stand on their
own two feet.”
“We selected GPFA to
design and complete
urgently-needed farm
forestry projects based
on its effectiveness and
unique expertise.”
Fauzia Nasiryar
Member of Parliament
Kabul Province
LTC Steve J. Lancaster
Chief of Military Operations
Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team
“For every 50 farmers GPFA helps, a
thousand more are encouraged.”
Shura Council Member
Paktya Province
“You have kept your promise
to the people and done what
you said you would do. Please
expand your programs so we can
be sure that the Taliban will not
be able to convince the farmers
to grow poppies.”
Mashfouz Ahmed
Director of Economic Development
Paktya Province

Contents
From the Chair and Co-Founder 3
From the Executive Director 4
From the Field: The Women Working Together Initiative 5
Seasons of Change: 2008 Milestones 8
Donors 9
GPFA Today: Reaching Thousands More in Need 11
Financial Statement 12
GPFA Staff List 13
GPFA Board of Directors 14
Mission Statement
Global Partnership for Afghanistan helps rural Afghans alleviate poverty, build
sustainable livelihoods and restore their environment. Our capacity-building
programs provide men and women with trees, supplies, technical and business
training, and other support needed to increase their incomes through farmer-
owned microenterprises such as orchards, vineyards and woodlots. GPFA also
works with communities to revitalize forests, improve water management and
reverse the impact of environmental degradation.

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From the Chair and Co-Founder
L
IkE MANy who vISITED Afghanistan in the 1970s, my enduring memories are of the stalwart,
generous, hard-working people and the rolling hills layered with fruit and nut trees and forests.
Imagine my delight as I report that, thanks to the tireless efforts and deep commitment of GPFA
staff and Global Partners, 10,000 families across 10 provinces are now reviving their devastated, war-torn
villages with nurseries, orchards, vineyards and woodlots. Through 2008, GPFA farmers planted 4 million
trees, yielding sustainable incomes in more than 300 villages.
But our success—your success as GPFA Global Partners—is measured not by statistics but by the return
to hope, stability and productivity for farmers like hamida. A fiesty orchard owner from Paktya, hamida
radically pruned and fertilized her ailing 200-tree orchard with help from Sakina, a GPFA extensionist. The
result: $4,000 in income in one year alone to support her family of sixteen. If she and her neighbors are
able to secure one of GPFA’s underground fruit storage units, she will be able to further boost her profits.
None of this progress would have been possible without the generous support of our Global Partners,
including a growing number of government, institutional and private donors. Funding from the US
Department of State/USAID and the Department of Defense, foreign governments, the European Union
and the world Bank, has helped us expand and enhance our programs significantly. our membership in
the Clinton Global Initiative has enabled us to raise our profile internationally and attract crucial support
from donors such as the Casten Family Foundation and Janet ketcham. on the ground, international
Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) and Agribusiness Development Teams (ADTs) increasingly look
to GPFA to provide the connections and support to local communities that are critical for their rural
development initiatives.
GPFA’s investments in human capital are equipping Afghan men and women with the skills, support and
resources they need to secure their livelihoods and stabilize their country. with your ongoing support,
GPFA can continue to help farmers expand and improve tree-based enterprises that will sustain families
and increase incomes for years to come.
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Dana H. Freyer
Chair and Co-Founder

From the Executive Director
I
AM FoRTUNATE To hAvE joined GPFA during such a pivotal year. Building on successful
program models and strong community ties, we made remarkable strides in the scope of our
activities and the number of farm families served. As I ventured out on site visits, I watched
this exciting progress unfold season by season, as Ahmed’s orchard burst into bloom in Paktya province,
wasima’s seedlings took root in the Panjshir valley, and habib sold his first apple crop in three years.
Along with intensifying our efforts to help establish and revitalize growing numbers of tree-based
enterprises, we developed and implemented new strategies to bolster productivity and earnings. our
underground fruit-storage facilities are helping farmers sell their crops for higher prices; our irrigation
systems are enhancing productivity and enabling rural communities to conserve and access precious
water supplies; and our greenhouses are promoting a longer growing season and the availability of highquality
planting stock. Through practical training, real-life demonstrations and hands-on experience, our
newly established Tree House Center for Excellence in Horticulture and Farm Forestry is disseminating
the best available agricultural research and technical support to a new generation of farmers from across
Afghanistan.
Behind every one of these milestones is our incredibly committed local staff—now numbering more
than 110. From our indomitable program director, Zundigul Zamani, to our highly trained administrative
and technical personnel, they are working tirelessly to build a better future for their country. In 2008, we
recruited more than 75 staff members from provincial towns and villages and helped them develop the
skills they need to support local farmers. As part of our Women Working Together initiative to improve
the earning power of rural women (see page 5), we increased the number of women on our staff from
4 to more than 30. The expertise of GPFA’s women’s program manager, Fatima Sardar, and extensionists
like Sakina, Sausan, and Saeeda, are crucial to our success in drawing larger numbers of women into our
programs.
Meanwhile, we are broadening our range of technical specializations. habib khan, a recently returned
Fulbright scholar, works with farmers to improve their access to water. Abdul Rahman Rahmati traveled
the country to gather Afghanistan’s best planting stock while Mirza Mohamed provides leadership for
community forestry and natural resources management.
with food and water shortages on the rise in many parts of Afghanistan, our staff is in a race against time
to reach many more rural farm families who are eager to take part in our agricultural, water-management
and women’s empowerment initiatives. Thank you for all you are doing to help Afghan farmers in need.
Roger A. Hardister
Executive Director
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Women Working Together
Better Earning Power
Through Entrepreneurship
After decades of war and Taliban control, women
across Afghanistan are striving to overcome a legacy
of repression and scarce educational and economic
opportunities. Though women comprise 60 percent
of Afghanistan’s population and a major portion of the
agricultural workforce, their participation is meagerly
rewarded. Many have lost husbands, brothers, sons and
fathers to the conflict and are struggling alone to support
their families.
In 2005, just a year after rolling out our first orchard and
nursery trial enterprises in Afghanistan, GPFA launched
the women working Together initiative to help women
farmers collaborate and build a better future for
“In all, some 35,000 Afghan women
and girls are benefiting from this
vital initiative.”
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Bulqis and Rabia demonstrate planting techniques.
GPFA training in food processing improves
women’s income.

themselves and their families.
with help from men’s and
women’s shuras (village councils)
in the Guldara district, we
identified widows and other
female heads of household who
lacked the supplies, training, tools
and funding to replant their land.
Through 2008, thanks to generous
support from the California-based
Raqim Foundation, USAID, and
several private donors, GPFA has
helped establish or revitalize nearly
3,500 orchard, nursery, forestry
and other woman-owned farm
enterprises. Led by Fatima Sardar
(see sidebar), our staff of 30
female agricultural extensionists
and village facilitators are working
directly with more than 800
women farmers across seven
provinces. In all, some 35,000
Afghan women and girls are
benefitting from this vital program.
karima, for example, has tended
a half-acre orchard in Paktya
province for most of her life. her
husband, five teenage daughters,
and two small sons work alongside
her, each with a task to perform.
well known in her village for her
high-quality fruits and vegetables,
karima was selected to participate
in GPFA’s orchard revitalization
program. with planting materials
and training from GPFA, karima
is boosting production by ridding
her orchard of harmful insects and
disease.
But our partnership with karima
extends well beyond harvesttime.
In 2008, she mobilized her
community to offer otherwise
unusable land for the construction
of a GPFA cold-storage facility for
fruit and vegetables. As a result,
she and 25 neighboring farmers
will no longer have to accept the
low prices that traders offer at
the height of the harvest season.
Instead, they are able to store
their crops until supplies are lower
and prices are higher. karima
and her fellow growers have also
increased their market power by
forming a producers’ association
that will allow them to share
resources, skills, and the latest
technologies. “By joining together
in this way,” she said, “we can
send representatives to our
national association and participate
in the affairs of our country that
have an immediate impact on
our lives.” village by village and
woman to woman, GPFA is helping
women to help themselves by
transforming hard work into
women’s livelihoods.
karima and her neighbors sort fruit for cold storage.
Woman to Woman:
The Multiplier Effect
Fatima leads GPFA women’s programs
in seven provinces.
Fatima Sardar, manager of GPFA’s
women’s Programs, needs only to think of
her own achievements when imagining the
potential of Afghan women in the workforce.
Forced to flee to Pakistan when Afghanistan
erupted into civil war in the 1990s, she was
unable to complete a university degree.
when she returned to her native Paktya
province after the fall of the Taliban, Fatima
committed herself to ensuring that other
Afghan women could pursue their educations
unfettered. After several years working
for the International Rescue Committee and
CARE, Fatima joined GPFA’s staff in 2007.
“whether she’s working with government
officials, other NGos, village women or our
own staff, she commands the respect of
everyone she meets,” says GPFA Executive
Director Roger hardister. “She understands
their needs.”
In 2007, a grant from the Casten Family
Foundation enabled Fatima to join other
GPFA senior technical staff on a study tour
of commercial horticultural centers in
Turkey. “we saw first hand how a modern
horticultural business works,” she says.
Back in Afghanistan, Fatima is providing
instruction in horticulture and small business
management to women such as Sausan in
kabul province. Like Fatima, Sausan was
forced out of school by the Taliban. But
today, as a GPFA village facilitator, she earns
$165 a month by helping to train and monitor
women farmers in her community. Since taking
part in GPFA’s Women Working Together
initiative, these rural women have seen their
earnings and food supplies increase by as
much as 60 percent. “women like Fatima
and Sausan are the lifeblood of GPFA’s
women’s programs,” says GPFA Executive
Director Roger hardister. “They are ensuring
a lasting legacy for our work.”
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Spotlight
Clinton Global Initiative Lauds GPFA
At the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)
in September, President Bill Clinton congratulated GPFA for
the extraordinary progress we have made toward alleviating
poverty and restoring the environment in Afghanistan.
Established in 2005, CGI brings together governments,
private enterprises, non-governmental organizations and
other global leaders to devise practical solutions to the
world’s most pressing problems. “It was gratifying to
receive such wide-ranging recognition of our efforts to build
a workable model for developing Afghanistan’s agriculture
sector,” said GPFA Co-founder and Chair Dana Freyer.
Upon being
selected as one
of CGI’s featured
Poverty Alleviation
Initiatives in 2006,
GPFA pledged
to help plant 1
million fruit and
poplar trees and
assist 100 rural
Afghans in creating
commercially viable
tree businesses.
Two years later,
President Clinton
took the stage
at CGI’s annual
meeting to
praise GPFA for
far exceeding
this ambitious
commitment to
action. Thanks
to the generous
support of GPFA
Global Partners, through 2008 we were able to assist more
than 10,000 men and women farmers in 300 villages plant
or revitalize some 4 million trees.
Addressing an audience of more than 1,000 influential
leaders from six continents, President Clinton highlighted
the effectiveness of GPFA’s model, which develops
businesses that support a family of seven or more and that
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will yield more income than that family could earn from
growing poppies. President Clinton also described the vital
role of GPFA’s woodlot enterprise program in restoring
Afghanistan’s forests. Before the Soviet invasion in 1979,
cedars, pines, oaks and other trees spanned more than 3
percent of the country. Today, they comprise less than 0.5
percent of the land.
As part of our next two-year commitment to CGI, GPFA
has pledged to create the Tree House, an Afghan-run
center of excellence in farm forestry, horticulture and
entrepreneurship
in the Guldara
district of kabul
province. Through
demonstration
projects, training
workshops and
partnerships
with experts and
other institutions,
the Tree House
will support the
development
of quality
planting stock,
productive orchard
and woodlot
enterprises,
producer
associations, fruit
storage facilities,
low-cost irrigation,
and market and
credit access.
Thousands of
participating
farmers will have the opportunity to increase their incomes
by $1,000 a year and more — significant amounts in a
country where most people live on $2 a day. By helping a
new generation of Afghan women and men professionals
succeed in farm forestry and horticulture, the Tree
House will accelerate the rebuilding of Afghanistan’s vital
agricultural sector as it creates an enduring legacy of
economic recovery and hope.
President Bill Clinton with GPFA Chair Dana h. Freyer at CGI’s 2006 annual meeting

2008 Milestones
January
• Coady International Institute (Canada) forms
partnership with GPFA for staff development.
February
• GPFA staff travel to Pakistan for training in fruit-tree
nursery management and return in time to instruct
farmers during planting season.
• with support from GTZ, the German government
agency for international cooperation, GPFA
completes the first phase of agro-forestry project in
Paktya, helping 350 farmers.
• Project to collect native tree stock, launched with
the World Bank Horticulture and Livestock
Project,enters second phase.
March
• Roger A. Hardister named GPFA Executive
Director to be based in kabul.
• GPFA farmers plant 2.5 million trees across four
provinces, bringing total to 4 million trees; 10,000
farmers served.
April
• GPFA farmers plant 2.5 million trees across four
provinces, bringing total to 4 million trees; 10,000
farmers served.
May
• GPFA begins work to create the Tree House
training center in Guldara District, kabul Province.
June
• GPFA’s Women Working Together Initiative
doubles its participants, reaching 800 rural women
farmers.
July
• Chair Dana Freyer and Executive Director Roger
hardister are interviewed by Jerome McDonnell on
Chicago Public Radio’s “World View.”
August
• GPFA and Cornell University/CIIFAD receive $1.7
million in additional USAID funding for support of
sustainable strategies for village- and farmer-based
forestry initiatives.
September
• New GPFA field offices open in kapisa, Panjshir,
and Parwan provinces.
• Clinton Global Initiative spotlights GPFA at
annual meeting in New york City (see page 7).
October
• GPFA staff tops 100, including more than 30
women.
• GPFA establishes the Tree House Center for
Excellence in Horticulture, Farm Forestry
and Entrepreneurship in Guldara district, kabul
province.
• GPFA partners with Albironi University’s Faculty
of Agriculture and the Nebraska Agribusiness
Team (ADT) to establish an agricultural research
and demonstration center on Albironi’s new campus
in kapisa province.
November
• Four new GPFA underground fruit-storage facilities
in three provinces increase local farmers’ income by
as much as 150 percent.
• GPFA signs agreements with Provincial
Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Panjshir valley to
support men and women farmers by establishing
30 woodlot and nursery farms, 70 fruit tree
orchards, and 350 vegetable gardens.
• GPFA Global Partners and staff celebrate
Afghanistan’s cultural heritage at the Asian Art
Museum of San Francisco.
December
• New and expanded GPFA Tree house internship
program offers practical on-farm experience and
business development training to recent graduates
of kabul, Paktya and Albironi universities.
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Building Livelihoods in the wake of Conflict
Nicholas D. kristof Delivers keynote Speech at GPFA’s Annual Benefit
Nicholas D. kristof
“helping people can be so much harder than it looks,”
said New York Times columnist Nicholas D. kristof during
his keynote speech at GPFA’s annual benefit on october
6. kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has
written extensively on Afghanistan, said that complex
challenges on the ground have prevented many wellmeaning
international assistance programs from having
a measurable impact beyond kabul. But GPFA, he said,
is a model of what works: “It’s crucial not to tell people
what they need, but to actually listen to them.” Employing
local staff, he said, is more effective than sending in large
groups of expatriates — and grassroots programs in rural
areas tend to be far more cost effective than city-based
initiatives. “All of this is characteristic of GPFA,” he said,
“which is a tribute to the kind of work you’re doing.” More
than 110 GPFA Global Partners and friends attended the
benefit, which featured a traditional Afghan buffet dinner
hosted by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom at its
midtown New york law offices.
“It’s crucial not to tell people
what they need, but to
actually listen to them.”
kristof also praised GPFA’s strong commitment to helping
rural Afghan women — including many widows and
other heads of household — generate income and boost
food supplies by establishing small orchard, nursery
and woodlot enterprises. “you can’t develop a country
if half the population is not engaged in the economy,”
he said. Earlier in the evening, Afifa yusufi – a graduate
student at Columbia University who fled Afghanistan
during the Soviet invasion – recounted the personal
stories of three GPFA farmers: an orchard entrepreneur,
a tree-nursery entrepreneur and a woodlot entrepreneur
who are shunning poppy cultivation in favor of building a
more stable and prosperous future for themselves and
their country. karima, as one of nearly 6,000 farmers
participating in GPFA’s orchard revitalization program,
received high-quality fruit trees, training and fertilizer to
help increase production on her half-acre farm in Paktya
province. Ma’lim, who established a thriving fruit-tree
nursery thanks to training and high-quality planting
materials from GPFA, is teaching young students in his
community to plant seeds and bud saplings. Rabia — the
sole provider for her family of nine — used cuttings and
supplies from GPFA to plant 8,000 hybrid poplars on
her two-acre farm. once driven from her village by the
Taliban, she is now one of thousands of women and men
enterprise farmers giving life to more than 1.4 million poplar
trees with assistance from GPFA.
Ma’lim displays his nursery trees.
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GPFA Today
Geographical Expansion of GPFA Projects: 2004-2008
Map of Afghanistan
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Financial overview
Individuals
13%
International
Development
Assistance
25%
Financial Position
Assets December 31, 2008 December 31, 2007
Cash/Cash Equivalents $271,812 $447,031
Investments 0 7,432
Grants/Pledges Receivable 335,475 147,169
Prepaid Expenses 60,729 26,000
Furniture/Equipment 1,374
Total $669,390 $632,555
Liabilities & Net Assets
Accounts Payable/Accrued Expenses $76,516 $13,559
Net Assets
Unrestricted 409,347 368,193
Temporarily Restricted 183,527 250,803
Total $669,390 $632,555
2008 Income/Expenses at a Glance
Income - Total: $1,442,355 Expenses - Total: $1,442,355
Board Members
8%
Program &
Other Income
2%
Released
from
Reserves
2%
Foundations &
Corporations
14%
US Government
36%
Other Programs
5%
General &
Administrative
18%
GPFA’s complete audited financial statements and Form 990 can be obtained online at www.gpfa.org.
Fundraising
4% Orchards &
Vineyards
29%
Forestry &
Woodlots
44%
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GPFA Senior Staff
Executive Director
Roger A. hardister
Development Director
New York
James T. Dowell
Chief Financial officer
New York
Elias N. Berbari
Program Director
Zundigul Zamani
Contracts and operations Manager
New York
Stephanie Gunn
Financial Manager
Mohammad khalil himmat
office Manager
Faiz Mohammed Zarmalwal
Projects Manager
Mirza Mohammad
women’s Program Manager
Fatima Sardar
Irrigation Specialist
habib khan
Germplasm Project Manager
Abdul Rahman Rahmati
Information and Communication
Technologies Manager
Sher Agha hamkar
Provincial Managers
Shir Agha (kapisa)
Mohammad Daud (wardak)
Rahman Gul (Paktya)
Dost Mohammad (Parwan)
Abdul Ellah Mudaqiq (Logar)
Sayed Rahim (Panjshir)
Mohammad hashim wafa (kabul)
Based in Kabul unless otherwise noted.
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GPFA Board of Directors
Dana h. Freyer
Chair and Co-Founder
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
M. Ishaq Nadiri
Co-Chair and Co-Founder
Jay Gould Professor of Economics, New York University
Leila Shakkour
Treasurer
Managing Director (retired), UBS Warburg
Alan G. Straus
Secretary
Retired Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Faruq Achikzad
Senior Advisor, Intercap International
Former UN Senior Staff Chairman, Raqim Foundation
Ruth B. Cowan
Founding President, Pro Mujer
Bruce M. Freyer
Co-Founder
E. Davisson hardman
Managing Director, Warburg Pincus
Fred kittler
Managing Director and Co-Founder,
Firelake Capital Management
Polly McTaggart
Retired Founder, Crème de la Terre
omair Rana
Chief Administrative Officer, Karmic Capital Group, Dubai
James D. Seymour
Managing Director, EMP Global
Rajiv Singh
Head, Capital Markets, Joseph Capital LLC
Suzanne Thompson
Principal, Coronado Consultants
Become a GPFA
Global Partner
GPFA was founded in 2002 thanks
to the generosity of a handful of
visionary individuals who wanted
to build a more stable and prosperous
future for Afghan families.
Today, GPFA Global Partners
remain an indispensable source of
support. Their contributions make
it possible for us to maintain the
outstanding quality of our core
programs as we launch new initiatives
to benefit greater numbers
of farmers in need. To learn
more or to make a tax-deductible
gift to GPFA, please visit our
website at www.gpfa.org or
contact our Development Director,
James T. Dowell, at (212) 735-2563
or jdowell@gpfa.org.
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New York
Mailing Address:
P.o. Box 1237
New york, Ny 10276
office Address:
1460 Broadway, 10th Floor
New york, Ny 10036
212.735.2080
Kabul
wazir Akbar khan
Street 13/Line 2-Left
house 128
kabul, Afghanistan
+93 (0)799190907
info@gpfa.org
www.gpfa.org
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