Al-Aghsan’s program is designed to strengthen the resilience of local farming communities in response to the protracted crisis in Iraq. It works to facilitate access of affected communities to economic opportunities through skills development for employment promotion and business start-ups, especially for youth and women, and supports public and private actors through training to promote job opportunities in order to increase self-sufficiency and help to develop sustainable livelihoods. Al-Aghsan’s program adopts an integrated multi-pronged approach that indicates identifying and application of sustainable solutions to go beyond the immediate effect on beneficiaries and farmers to a broader impact that touch the whole community and reflected positively on the agriculture sector. Linking of the targeted farming communities to the private sector and free markets is seen as a strategic method to ensure fulfilment of these intended results, and at the same time reduce the dependence on the state as being the only driver of the agriculture and economy in Iraq.