Bakhtar Development Network (BDN)

About Us

Bakhtar Development Network (BDN) was created in 2001 as a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political organization in Afghanistan. BDN envisages a society where people are motivated to aim for a better future and hence, BDN exists to help communities achieve their development goals.

Since its inception, BDN has been implementing various health, nutrition, education and community development projects. BDN focuses on three main dimensions while implementing health, nutrition, and other development projects; 1) Evidence based delivery of services; 2) capacity building of service providers and 3) improving staff’s managerial capacity to better plan and mange projects. For more than 18 years, BDN has been able to contribute significantly to improving people’s access to high-quality health care and building a history of successful implementation of health, nutrition, and community development projects across Afghanistan.

BDN currently provides the Basic Package of Health Services in Balkh and Baghlan provinces under the World Bank-financed Sehatmandi Project. Through implementing Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness (ERHSP) projects in Balkh, Baghlan and Takhar provinces, BDN also contributes to the fight against COVID-19 Pandemic