Maxim Network News: December 18, 2009 - UNAMA: Afghanistan - Afghanistan road network damaged by decades of war and a serious impediment to economic growth, the faces of reconstruction and rehabilitation. Without critical infrastructure such as road system, many provinces of Afghanistan from access to essential services such as education and health care cut. 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 road construction worker, says that traveling to Kabul from the central highlands of the country often take days on foot and by road. Now with a new road, the journey will be cut by half. SoundBite (Dari) Mohammad Rasol, Afghan Road Workers: We are very pleased with the work done here. We also appreciate the governmentsInitiative. When construction ends this way, the trip to Kabul will be reduced by half, half the money and the whole day. According to UNOPS, the benefits of the program are numerous. A new access road open, rural enterprises to regional and national markets to improve and better allocation of resources, technology transfer and productivity growth. SoundBite (English) Sayeed Khan Ahmadzai, Road Engineer, United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOPS): The main objective ofNRAP is ...
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