Mr. Zia Shefaie Vice Chancellor for Admin and Finance
(Kateb University)
Kateb University and the SDGs: Past, Present, and Future
Universities have a critical role in the achievement of the SDG by its unique position within society. They can take active parts in attaining the SDGs through education & training, research, operations and governance, and external leadership.
Afghan Universities can play an active role in attaining the SDGs through incorporating SDGs as part of their curriculum in Afghanistan, mapping SDGs in their researches, embedding SDGs in their operations, governance and cultures, and working together and with other SDG stakeholders helping Afghanistan to achieve the SDGs.
Having diverse educational disciplines has enabled Kateb to be an interdisciplinary university with possibilities to focus on all three pillars of the SDGs. Kateb has established four research centers in the area of Economics, Health, Social Science and computer science for doing research and publishing research papers.
Relevant to SDGs, Kateb University has established Kateb Research Institute to particularly focus on SDGs.
Kateb University has also gained achievements related to the SDGs. These achievements are as follows: 1. 124 Master›s students graduated in the field of Development Economics
‹conference) using its own resources in order to bring together Universities and research institutions to work together on SDGs
Moreover, Kateb has served as a platform to support Afghanistan development through providing scholarship grants to students, paying for the teachers who taught students in deprived
provinces, providing free legal services to women and children at Katebs’ Law Clinic and free educational services to orphanage.
Kateb University has future plans for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in Afghanistan. These future plans are:
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