Life Skills Development in Afghanistan
After the 2001 war, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education, with the support of international agencies including UNESCO and UNICEF, initiated a comprehensive revision of the primary and secondary curriculum as to promote learner-centredness and quality learning outcomes. A Curriculum Framework for primary education was developed and approved by the Afghanistan Government in 2003. It introduced new learning areas, such as Life skills, along with updating the learning content and reinforcing cross-cutting issues across the different key stages of the curriculum.