HBDO run several social dialogues, meeting, and campaigns on improving the co-existence and social cohesion among IDPs, returnees, and host communities. The project targeted returnees, internally displaced persons, and vulnerable members of host communities in the western and eastern parts of the capital Herat.  Internally displaced persons have fled to the project areas due to war, drought, poverty, and conflicts between individual groups both from the immediate surrounding area and from more distant regions. The returnees come primarily from Iran, from which a part of it has returned voluntarily and some of it has been deported by force by the Iranian authorities.

RSDO an Afghan NGO runs a project with the fund of BMZ on strengthening social cohesion in the IDP areas in Kori Meli, Injil district, where HBDO has an office in the project areas, and regularly runs literacy classes and other social interventions. Thus, this opportunity enabled the chance for HBDO to act and learn about running social dialogues, training, and gatherings to improve the co-existence. HBDO has signed a local partnership to contribute to implementing some parts of the project. The project’s purpose was for the target returnees, internally displaced persons, and members of host communities in the project areas to develop networks with each other, improve social cohesion, and reduce verbal and physical attacks.