H.E. Muhammad Asif Rahimi

H.E Mohammad Asif Rahimi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1960. He received his bachelor's degree in 1982 and completed his post-graduate studies in Management of Development Programs from Nebraska-Omaha University in 1990.

H.E. Rahimi has worked extensively in the area of development and humanitarian relief both in Afghanistan and abroad. For over a decade he worked with CARE-USA as manager of CARE operations in Afghanistan. After he moved to Canada in 2001 H.E. Rahimi joined CARE-Canada as South Asia regional manager.

Returning to Afghanistan in early 2005, H.E. Rahimi joined the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) as the head of National Solidarity Program (NSP) -the flagship community development initiative of the government of Afghanistan. National Solidarity Program (NSP) is one of the most successful national priority programs implemented by the government of Afghanistan. Rahimi was serving as the Deputy Minister for Programs in MRRD Since April 2006, a profile in which he leaded all of the ministry's national and regional initiatives in rural development, infrastructure, and economic regeneration.

Since his return to Afghanistan, H.E. Rahimi has contributed immensely to policy and strategy development within the government of Afghanistan, including, among others, playing a leading role in the Policy Action Group discussions, the development of the Comprehensive Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) initiative, and generally to the development and operationalization of the Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS).

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