Canada in Afghanistan – What Should Canada’s Role Be?
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/10/f-afghanistan.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/10/f-afghanistan.html
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Instructions for Part One: Canada’s Mission Goals - Afghanistan
• For part one of this assignment use the Canadian Government Website:– Canada In Afghanistan
Fill in the slides provided with the information requested in your own words. This is at most a partner (1 or 2 person) assignment!
• Each slide will also contain a picture of Canada’s war/mission in Afghanistan which you will provide a link to. – See the example on the
title page of this presentation and then ask for help if you do not know how to create links.
– You pictures cannot all be from the same site.
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Priority One: Training and Mentoring the Afghan National Security Forces
• How is Canada Providing Help?– Training, teaching, and helping prepare the ANA
and ANP– Enabling management and logistic support– Support for the ANP in the justice and
correctional systems in the form of “complementary initiatives”
– What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?
– Canada wants the ANA to be able to demonstrate a better ability to conduct operations and ensure a more secure environment in Kandahar by 2011
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2009/11/canadian-combat-forces-will-be-out-of.html
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Priority Two: Basic Services• How is Canada Providing Help?
– Money is being invested to provide education – Promotion of agriculture and access to credit for
new businessmen trying to start out– Trying to repair infrastructure to help irrigation
and drinkable water
– What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?
– They hope that the government will be better able to provide basic services like
• Education• Roads• Vocational training
http://www.communitiesofpeace.org/ourcommunities/warrentonva.html
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Priority Three: Humanitarian Assistance
• How is Canada Providing Help?– Clearing mines and providing mine safety
education– Vaccinations and providing more access to health
services– Both food and non-food aid for vulnerable people
– What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?
– The ability of Afghan institutions to deal with such humanitarian situations to increase
– An increase in the access people who are vulnerable to essential health services
http://www.adra.de/en/humanitarian-aid.html
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Priority Four: Border Security and Dialogue
• How is Canada Providing Help?– Helping discussions between the Afghan and
Pakistani sides of the border– Helping equip border officers– Adding to discussions between the Afghan and
Pakistani sides
– What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?
– Afghan institutions will be able to better manage the border
– Afghan institutions should foster economic growth in the border area
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Priority Five: Democratic Development and National Insitutions
• How is Canada Providing Help?– Giving financial and technical aid and the
development of a national voter registry to help with elections
– Cooperating with other donors to help along the election process
– Give backing to certain national institutions and departments in areas like training, equipment, program supports, etc.
– What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?
– National, provincial and local institutions will show a greater ability for democratic governance when it comes to deliberation
– Also, in the delivery of public programs and services and in carrying out democratic elections there will be more democratic governance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/sep/18/afghanistan-elections?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487#/?picture=366825479&index=12 Ashten Blain
Priority Six: Political Reconciliation• How is Canada Providing Help?
– Encouraging the growth of government-led mechanisms that will encourage talk between the government and the people
– Developing the government’s ability to communicate with it’s citizens
– Providing support for Afghan-led efforts to promote outreach and reconciliation to reach a sustainable peace
– What are two goals that Canada has for this part of the mission by 2011?
– National and provincial Afghan government initiatives will encourage reconciliation
– Canada will provide timely support
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Part 1A: Signature Projects – Canadian Efforts in Afghanistan
• Instructions:Use this link to learn about 3 signature projects that we as the Canadian people have identified as critical for the people of Afghanistan.
- Fill in the following slides with information in your own words about these projects.
• Place one photo of these projects, different from what is on the linked main page in this box on the following pages.
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Signature Project 1 – Dahla Dam and Irrigation System
• Why is this an important project for the people of Afghanistan?
• It will provide a water supply they can use for irrigation to most of the Kandahari population
• It will add 10000 seasonal jobs• Agriculture will grow because of the irrigation
• What is Canada doing to help? – Canada is investing money to
• Repair the Dahla Dam (replacing generators and repairing valves to control water flow)
• Train farmers in how to use water wisely and to better produce crops
http://www.afghanistan.gc.ca/canada-afghanistan/news-nouvelles/2009/2009_05_07a.aspx
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Signature Project 2 – Education• Why is this an important project
for the people of Afghanistan?• Education increases people’s chances of going on to
post secondary education, or a helps them get a better job, and therefore leaves them better off than they would have been without it
• What is Canada doing to help? – Canada had invested money to
• Build, expand, ore repair 50 schools in key districts of Kandahar province
• Build the ability of the Ministry of Education to deliver good education services
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Signature Project 3 – Polio Eradication
• Why is this an important project for the people of Afghanistan?
• To decrease the number of people affected by the disease, as Southern Afghanistan has the highest national incidence of polio
• What is Canada doing to help? – Establishing vaccination points at major border
crossings– Investing $60 million over three years
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