Afghan National Drug Action Plan 2015 - 2019.

This National Drug Action Plan is a nationwide sectoral document that is part of the Afghan government's commitment to further good governance, economic development, security, and stability through comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable approach to combating illegal drug production, trade, and usage. It aims at achieving the following three main goals (i) decrease the cultivation of opium poppy; (ii) decrease the production and trafficking of opiates; and (iii) reduce the demand for illicit drugs in Afghanistan and increase the provision of treatment for users.
To make agriculture more productive and sustainable, the Government will (i) strengthen and diversify licit alternatives to poppy cultivation, including high-value perennials and off-season vegetables, for farmers, laborers, and rural communities providing assistance; (ii) increase fair and equitable access to natural resources, including arable land and water, through land reform of Afghan government-owned land; and (iii) create water harvesting and watershed management systems.
Rural poverty will be faced through interventions aiming to (i) develop rural infrastructure and low-cost energy sources which support the development of agricultural value chains and rural enterprise; (ii) increase the availability of treatment for drug users in rural areas, prioritizing those areas with the highest rates; and (iii) analyze factors behind the use of illicit narcotics in rural areas including the lack of access to licit analgesic medicines.
In order to enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural systems the Plan proposals are (i) develop locally-tailored interventions in consultation with farmers and farmers’ associations that generate legitimate long-term sustainable alternatives to poppy cultivation; (ii) promote the establishment of crop producers’ associations, which will represent farmers’ interests, provide access to credit, help create markets for their products, and expand the use of improved seed and livestock varieties; (iii) make the entire agricultural sector more resilient and competitive with poppy through projects integrating adaptive research, extension services, training, micro-finance, processing facilities, and marketing; and (iv) conduct public information campaigns on alternatives to poppy, including information on where and how farmers can gain access to resources and technical assistance to assist them to make the transition to planting those crops instead of poppy.
As for the Governance, to implement this Action Plan, Afghan government ministries will work in coordination with their public and private sector partners and foreign governments. Furthermore, the Permanent Committee on Counter Narcotics (PCCN), composed of representatives from 15 ministries, will coordinate efforts on the National Drug Action Plan for which the Ministry of Counter Narcotics will publish annual reports on the implementation.