Afghanistan: Tracking major resource flows, 2002-2010

This latest report sheds light on Afghanistan’s rapid transformation the world’s leading recipient of aid. It reveals the nature of the domestic and international aid architecture which has developed to receive and administer the growing volume of aid, which reached US$6.1 billion in 2009, and captures some of the major aid trends, actors and mechanisms from 2002 to the latest available data.

Providing a broad contextual picture, the report explains that aid is only part of the complex resource puzzle in Afghanistan, which also includes private and domestic resource flows, and it looks at the substantial costs of international military involvement which, for 2009, is estimated to be at least ten times greater than the aid investment.