In 2001, after gaining power, Ashraf Ghani had envisioned the creation of several national development projects which would create public trust in governance.
In order to interact with these people, engage them in development, include them in the reconstruction process and provide a uniform approach across Afghanistan, the National Solidarity Program (NSP) was launched.
As one of the Afghan government's National Priority Programs the NSP has been publicized as one of the most successful CDD programmes in the world to date [citation needed].
Launched in 2003, the program was instrumental in generating employment and initiating the rehabilitation of rural infrastructure devastated by severe drought and two decades of conflict.
[citation needed] The president of the World Bank estimates the economic rate of return on the NSP to be almost 20 percent (Zoellick, 2008).
NGOs act as facilitating partners contracted by the MRRD to initiate the NSP and provide technical and capacity building support to the communities.
Thirdly, the newly elected CDCs consult directly with members of the community to reach a consensus list of subproject ideas.
This list called the community development plan (CDP) comprises projects which can be carried out with funds from the NSP and independent of outside support.
Lastly, the facilitating partners and CDCs undertake an evaluation of the technical quality of completed subprojects and documents the lessons learned.
In Phase 2 which ran from April 2007 until March 2010 the World Bank proposed covering an additional 4300 new communities bringing the total to 21600.