To help ensure that SIKA programs achieve identified strategic and program objectives (increased confidence in district government, leading to the expansion of Afghan provincial government authority and legitimacy through government officials responding to the local population’s development and governance concerns), we recommend that the USAID Mission Director for Afghanistan instruct the USAID Mission Afghanistan’s Office of Acquisition and Assistance and Stabilization Unit to: Modify each of the SIKA contracts to clearly articulate a consistent plan for community contracting and implementing the Kandahar Model under the NABDP, including the roles of specific government and/or community entities and the processes to be followed in developing, approving, implementing, and monitoring community projects in support of SIKA program goals.