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New Country Director

March 19, 2007

SCA is a non-governmental humanitarian organisation working to improve the basic living conditions for people in rural parts of the country through fighting poverty, supporting reconstruction, and working for social development and human rights & gender in Afghanistan.

Mr Anders Fänge: “SCA has worked in Afghanistan during the last 25 years. Our focus has been the rural area purely because conditions there are relatively worse and also because Afghan history teaches us that it is in the rural areas the essential future of Afghanistan to a large extent is ultimately decided”.

By improving the basic living conditions for people in rural parts of the country, SCA is working to support reconstruction, peace and stability in Afghanistan. SCA is today active in the Eastern, South-eastern and Northern part of Afghanistan running three long-term development programmes in the fields of Education, Health and Disability.

Mr Anders Fänge: “To come back after three years absence is actually a rather joyful experience in spite of the political and security related problems the country is struggling with. SCA will undoubtedly continue its work in a sprit of solidarity with the Afghan people”.

Biographical note

Mr Anders Fänge first visited Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion when he was working as a journalist for Swedish newspapers and radio in 1981 and 1982.

It is Mr Anders fourth commission of trust as the Country Director for SCA. His first assignment as a Country Director for SCA was between 1983 - 1990. In the following period Mr Anders Fänge headed programmes of several respected international development actors in predominantly conflict and post-conflict countries such as Save the Children Sweden, International Red Cross and Crescent Society and United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).

In 1997 Mr Anders once again returned to SCA as the Country Director and stayed on until August 2001, when he left SCA and joined UNAMA where Mr Anders became the Director for Field Coordination Political Affairs. As such, he was, among other tasks, responsible on the UN side to organise the Emergency Loya Jirga which took place in June 2002.

In March 2003 he left UNAMA and took once again the position as the Country Director for SCA, but this time only for 8 months. In November 2003 he was assigned by the United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA; the UN Agency mandated to provide for Palestine refugees) as the Director for the West Bank in Palestine. He stayed on this post until 31 January 2007, when now– once again – he joined SCA as the Country Director.

Contact information:

Information Coordinator
Malin Lager
Email: malin.lager@sca.org.af
Mobile: +93 (0)7990-46868 or +93 (0)700-7810