The purpose of this review is to support the Royal Commission’s work in developing recommendations for both preventing institutional child sexual abuse and improving institutional responses to this type of abuse.

Uruzgan presents an enormously challenging operating environment for development activity. An estimated 35-45 per cent of the province remains outside government control, and anti-government attacks are reported, on average, every day. Much of the province, particularly outside of the provincial capital and the district centres, is for the most part inaccessible to non-local development staff.