Dilemmas facing agencies in the urban centres of Afghanistan

Abstract

In many situations worldwide where rebel or other movements have wrested large areas of territory from the control of central government or, as in the case of Afghanistan, where the government has collapsed and control is divided between different power holders, humanitarian agencies are having to determine how they should relate to non-governmental power holders.

Keywords

• Afghanistan
• humanitarian agencies
• public services
• governmental capacity
• urban centres
• NGO partnership