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NGO Support Program (US$2 million Grant): As a precursor to the National Solidarity Program, this Program enabled the Government of Afghanistan to grant funds to NGOs to help communities rebuild. This project was completed in September 2005. Forty-four NGOs have been contracted to work with communities to support subprojects in irrigation, drinking water supply, road repair, school rehabilitation, and income-generation and literacy programs for women. A total of 35 subprojects have been completed. The NGO support program was the first to provide a framework where the Government of Afghanistan and local NGOs could work together and has provided lessons on both how such a collaboration should be organized and the kind of constraints that need to be overcome for this collaboration to be replicated on a larger scale to the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD).