Karim Merchant spent 14 years in Afghanistan working at regional level with international NGOs, then as a Chief Technical Advisor for the UN, and as a project formulator, programme director, and senior advisor to several ministers for the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. He is currently a freelance consultant in rural development and a lecturer in conflict-sensitive development.

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