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World Justice Project Releases the Rule of Law in Afghanistan

Earlier this year, the World Justice Project (WJP) released The Rule of Law in Afghanistan, which synthesizes key findings from The World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2020, and WJP’s first ever Afghan Inmates Survey. D3 and its subsidiary, ACSOR-Surveys, managed sampling, fieldwork, and data processing for both studies that contributed to the report. […]

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TAF Releases 2019 Model Disability Survey of Afghanistan

The Asia Foundation has released the results of the 2019 Model Disability Survey of Afghanistan: this major effort by the Foundation and its partners represents the first large-scale, nationally representative disability survey of Afghanistan in 15 years. ACSOR-Surveys, based in Kabul, conducted fieldwork for the survey. D3: Designs, Data, Decisions provided support in areas including […]

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TAF Releases Study on Trade and Livelihoods in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands

The Asia Foundation has released its inaugural study on Trade and Livelihoods in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands, the first phase of a multi-year research study of the economic and security dynamics of the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. ACSOR-Surveys conducted fieldwork and analysis on behalf of the X-Border Local Research Network, a joint project of […]

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D3 Research Recognized for Creativity in Afghanistan

Fast Company listed Sherrie Westin on their annual ‘100 Most Creative People in Business’. D3 and Sesame Workshop collaborated to design survey methods that would provide the best data to create Zari, the groundbreaking Afghan Muppet. “Zari is a 6-year-old girl who loves to learn, aspires to be a doctor—and is bright purple. She’s Sesame […]

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Sesame Street Debuts New Muppet for Afghanistan

For decades, Sesame Workshop has brought educational programming to children around the world. A localized version for Afghan children called Baghch-e-Simsim, or Sesame Garden, has been running since November 2011. Afghanistan has a particular need for the services provided by Sesame Street due to its very young population and the fact that many children still do […]

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D3 Conducts Impact Evaluation on Sesame Street Programming in Afghanistan

D3 and Sesame Workshop, the producers of Sesame Street, designed and executed a quasi-experimental impact evaluation to determine the effect of listening to Sesame Street’s third season of its Afghan radio broadcasts on young children’s learning. “Bagch-e-Simsim,” as the program is known in Afghanistan, has developed specialized educational content for the Afghan context that is […]

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Afghanistan: A Country In Transition

D3 and ACSOR Surveys are releasing the results of our most recent survey conducted as part of our self-funded Afghan Futures series.  The survey investigates the broad variety of challenges facing Afghanistan as the unity government led by President Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah marks its one-year anniversary since the peaceful resolution of the […]

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Afghanistan: The Case for Polling in Conflict Environments

The Afghan Center for Socio-economic and Opinion Research (ACSOR-Surveys), a subsidiary of D3 Systems, conducted national public opinion polls before and after Afghanistan’s highly anticipated 2014 presidential election, seeking insight into Afghans’ voting intentions, issues of concern, and their experience with this fundamental exercise in democracy. The surveys, part of ACSOR-Surveys’ internally funded Afghan Futures […]

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D3’s Afghanistan Polling Results Presented at Afghanistan Pakistan Federation Forum

Washington D.C. — On June 6th, 2014, Matthew Warshaw of D3 Systems and Gary Langer of Langer Research Associates presented polling data from Afghanistan’s ongoing presidential elections at the Pakistan Afghanistan Federation Forum hosted by the U.S. Department of Defense at the Pentagon. Data used in this presentation come from the fifth installment of the […]

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Afghanistan’s Ethnic, Regional Divisions Produce a Dead Heat in its Presidential Race

The Afghan Center for Socio-Economic and Opinion Research (ACSOR), a subsidiary of D3 Systems, and Langer Research Associates release election polling results in Afghanistan. Ethnic and regional divisions drove first-round ballot choices in Afghanistan’s presidential election and point now to a dead heat in a runoff between the top two finishers, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani. Yet […]

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