05/06/2026
In Afghanistan, the climate crisis is intensifying food insecurity, poverty and disaster risk.
Yet across some of the country's most affected communities, resilience is taking root.
The Afghanistan Resilience Consortium (ARC), led by Afghanaid and funded by , Commonwealth & Development Office, is supporting communities to take the lead in building solutions to the challenges posed by drought, flooding and environmental degradation.
It starts with understanding their local environment. In this photo, community members are assessing their own watershed, helping identify risks and shape the actions needed to protect lives, livelihoods and natural resources.
Over the past year, communities supported through this project have:
- Planted more than 260,000 saplings
- Improved water and soil conservation across 90 micro-watersheds
- Established 90 Watershed Management Committees and 720 disaster response taskforces
- Strengthened local preparedness for climate-related shocks and disasters
The official theme of World Environment Day 2026 is climate action, and we're celebrating the Afghan communities driving this action on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
Because resilience isn't built overnight.
It starts with local knowledge, collective action, investment in communities, and creating opportunities for people to adapt and thrive.
🌱 Resilience starts here.
