5 Afghan Cities
Client: Ministry of Urban Development and Land, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Location: Herat, Mazar-e Sharif, Jalalabad, Kandahar, and Khost, Afghanistan
Size: All Five City-Regions
Collaborators: Sasaki, Oxford Policy Management, ATR Consulting, Appleton
Year: 2019 - 2020
Services: Comprehensive Infrastructure Planning
Context
Following Sasaki and Level’s work on the Kabul Urban Design Framework, the World Bank funded similar integrated city-wide framework plans for five more cities in Afghanistan. The Afghan Ministry of Urban Development and Land then hired a Sasaki-led design team to develop Strategic Development Frameworks for five additional cities in Afghanistan: Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalalabad, Kandahar, and Khost. The assignment required the team to analyze each city-region and then prioritize the most strategic investments that have potential to improve quality of life and catalyze economic growth and social cohesion. The project is a 12-month assignment that will be followed by feasibility studies.
Our Role
Level was the lead engineering firm for these five framework plans. Scope included planning and design for drinking water, wastewater, transportation, electricity, and solid waste management interventions. Level worked with Sasaki to ensure that proposed long-term growth strategies for each city-region were aligned with existing infrastructure systems and proposed investments. Because of the vast infrastructure investments needed in each city, Level supported a prioritization process that assessed the potential for each infrastructure investment to be particularly catalytic to economic growth and social cohesion. This evidence-based approach will allow the World Bank to allocate limited resources with the highest potential outcomes.
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