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About DCA

Helping the Afghan people through their livestock fghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, with 36% of the population below the poverty line. Of the 35.5 million Afghans, about 24 million are living in the countryside, being more or less dependent on agriculture and livestock.

Address:

  • Street # 5 of Syloo, House # 152-153, District 3, Kabul, Afghanistan
  • info.afg@dca-af.org
  • Sun - Thu: 8.00 AM to 4.00 PM

Projects

DCA Projects

For more than 30 years, DCA has implemented a large number of projects to improve livestock health and productivity. Most of these projects offer an integrated package of paravet (refresher) training, establishment and support of veterinary field units, and extension services. Also, the development of livestock value chains has become an essential component of the DCA projects.
DCA usually implements some 6 to 8 projects at the same time, which are funded by various international donor.

“All these projects should finally result in a sustainable system of animal health care and an improved livelihood of the rural Afghan population.”

 

To this end, the projects focus on four main goals:
  • Filling the gaps in the nationwide VFU network;
  • Making the VFUs sustainable (by increasing their income, advocating for official recognition, and access to quality vaccines and medicines);
  • Improving the income of farmers through animal health and production services, and value chain development;
  • Achieving a sound public-private cooperation in the livestock sector.

Geographic coverage

With its projects, DCA Livestock Programs aims to cover a large part of Afghanistan. From 2014 through 2018, DCA supported the livestock owners in 30 out of 34 provinces, thus almost nationwide. Since then, regretfully, the geographical scope has diminished to 19 provinces, due to the ending of two large projects.