Starting from scratch – building social research capacity in Afghanistan
Matthew WarshawD3 Systems Inc., United States
Rafiq Kakar, Torpekay Habibzei and Zemarak MohsiniACSOR-Surveys, Afghanistan
INTRODUCTION
The road to conducting survey research that meets international standards is one not easily paved in Afghanistan. Violence, illiteracy in both urban and rural areas, segments of the population hostile to research, and cultural constraints on access to the family in general and women in particular all have had to be faced in the process of building a venture that has grown from simple urban polls of Kabul to...