Afghanistan project 306-0210 · 1989–1994 · Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI)

Project to reduce poppy production and increase awareness of narcotics in Afghanistan. The project, to be implemented by Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI), will have three components: a narcotics awareness campaign; a poppy reduction and elimination program; and information and research. Narcotics awareness activities will be aimed at the Mujahideen and their supporting population inside Afghanistan, resistance political leadership, the donor community providing cross-border assistance from Pakistan, religious leaders, and, to a lesser extent, the refugee population. The campaign will use images, radio, printed messages, traveling medical or communications teams, and other media to draw the connection between poppy cultivation and drug addiction. The campaign will also invoke religious and social mores to deliver strong anti-narcotics messages. A poppy cultivation and elimination program will be conducted in areas where they have a reasonable chance of success; 7-12 sites are targeted. DAI will create a special unit (to include Afghan income generation, agricultural extension, and agricultural engineering experts) to negotiate poppy reduction and elimination agreements with comm

Source: DEC abstract, PD-FCG-165 (1990). The source's own text.