Mohammed Ehsan Zia

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Mohammed Eshan Zia is the former Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development of Afghanistan. He is currently President and CEO of Tadbeer Consulting Inc. [1]

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Background

Zia was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Social Development from the University of Birmingham in the UK in 1991, and holds a master's degree in Post-War Recovery Studies from the University of York. [1] During the 1990s he worked with Aid Agencies and NGO's involved in humanitarian and post conflict programs in Afghanistan. [2]

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Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development

During the First Karzai cabinet, he joined the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development as policy advisor in 2002 and subsequently was appointed Deputy Minister for Programs in January 2004, becoming responsible for a developmentbudget of over 300 mln dollar. [2] [3] He became Rural Development Minister in 2006, but was replaced in 2010 when the Second Karzai cabinet was installed.

The First Karzai cabinet lead the administration of Afghanistan between 2004, the year Hamid Karzai won the first Afghan presidential election and 2009 when the second presidential election took place. In 2006 there was a major cabinet reshuffle. The first Karzai cabinet followed the Afghan Transitional Administration which was put in place by the 2002 loya jirga. Karzai announced the names of the cabinet on 23 December 2004. The cabinet was sworn in on 24 December 2002 and held its first cabinet meeting on 27 December. This cabinet consisted of 27 ministers, including two women.

The second Karzai cabinet was the cabinet of Afghanistan that led the government from the re-election of president Hamid Karzai in 2009 until the end of his term in 2014. The cabinet consisted of the president, his two vice-presidents, 18 ministers who received approval from the Afghan Parliament, and 7 acting ministers who have not been approved.

Mr. Zia was described by The Globe and Mail as one of the most active and dynamic of the Afghan cabinet, known for getting out of Kabul and pushing hard to drive reconstruction money out to the communities where projects are picked by locally chosen councils. [4] According to the website of de ministry of rural rehabilitation and development, the soft-spoken Mr. Zia was the most-traveled minister of the Karzai cabinet, and possibly also the most popular. [5]

Cornerstone of the Ministry of Rural Development was the National Solidarity Program, a project that gives money to local communities who have elected their own leaders and created their own development efforts. [6]

After his tenure as minister, Zia became CEO of Tadbeer, an Afghan consulting firm in the governance, development and security field.

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References

  1. 1 2 "MR. MOHAMMED EHSAN ZIA". Tadbeer. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Afghan Biographies: Zia, Ihsan, Ehsan". Afghan bio's. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  3. ↑ BLACK, MICHAEL; FIELDS, ROLAND. "Thai opium crop substitution program in Burma hits problems". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  4. ↑ Koring, Paul (Oct 25, 2006). "Canadians go undercover in Afghanistan". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Afghan minister sees hope in travels". MRRD. Apr 20, 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  6. ↑ Sturm, Frankie (2009-02-25). "Minister: U.S. Shortchanging Afghan Development". Wired.
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