KABUL - The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation (AREU) is pleased to let you know that this year too, it maintained its position as top research Think Tank in Afghanistan, while it has moved from fifth to the third position as the top think-tank in a list of 63 think-tanks in Central Asia in 2019. In another category for Best Independent Think Tanks, AREU maintained its position as 26th while among  Social Policy Think Tank, it ranked 54 out of 108 Think Tanks Globally and 136 out of 158 top Think Tanks Worldwide (Non-US) which also includes some of the most prestigious institutions in the world.
The AREU team is delighted with the significant results of the rankings and would like to take this opportunity and thank all our partners and supporters who have faith in the AREU work and support it to contribute to the development of Afghanistan. These achievements come on the back of another achievement in 2018 when the U.K.’s Prospect magazine awarded AREU as the Best International Social Think Tank.
Dr Orzala Nemat, AREU Director, said “the rankings AREU has achieved is a recognition of its high-quality work at all levels. We are particularly pleased with getting 26th position among Best Independent think tanks globally in a country with the extreme level of dependencies and instability.” She added that we strive very hard to produce high-quality evidence-based research papers to help the policymakers, in such a difficult and complex environment in Afghanistan, to make realistic policies based on policy recommendations that come out of our painstaking fieldwork. (KHAAMA PRESS)