Afghanistan Counternarcotics Program

The summary for the Afghanistan Counternarcotics Program grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affair, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Afghanistan Counternarcotics Program: The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement administers a variety of counternarcotics programs in Afghanistan in support of U.S. policy objectives and at the direct request of the Government of Afghanistan. INL's efforts are vital to the larger interagency and international fight to counter the narcotics trade, which fuels the insurgency, undermines the Afghan government by fostering corruption, and erodes both the Afghan economy and social structure through financial dependence and physical addiction amongst many Afghan families. According to the United Nations estimates, in 2011 the farm-gate income generated by opium probably amounted to $1.4 billion dollars, equivalent to 9 percent of GDP in Afghanistan. INL programs directly support U.S. government counterinsurgency goals at both ends of the drug supply chain by targeting the insurgent-narcotrafficker nexus while also enhancing support for licit agriculture, counternarcotics law enforcement, institutional capacity building, demand reduction, public information and rule of law.