01 / Humanitarian and development organisations
Logistics for humanitarian and development programmes.
Zhikal Logistics Services supports UN agencies, international and national NGOs and donor-funded development programmes in Afghanistan — procurement, transport, warehousing, distribution, cash administration and event management, delivered under task orders and closed out with the documentation an audit will ask for.
How Zhikal works with them.
A humanitarian or development contract in Afghanistan is judged twice: once on whether the goods reached the right people on the agreed date, and again months later on whether the file proves it. Zhikal is built for the second test as much as the first. Every assignment produces quotation comparisons, inspection records, goods received notes, waybills, distribution and attendance records, photographs and a reconciliation, prepared in the client's own reporting format rather than in ours.
The operating model suits how these organisations buy. Most engagements run as task orders drawn from a framework or retainer: the client issues a requirement, Zhikal confirms specification, price, delivery locations and dates, and the work mobilises without a fresh procurement cycle each time. The current nationwide non-food-item retainer runs on exactly this basis through December 2026, covering market research, pre-financed procurement, quality assurance, warehousing, transport and accountability records across 28 listed item categories.
Programme teams also need one partner rather than several. A distribution in Uruzgan is a sourcing problem, a storage problem, a transport problem and an evidence problem at once, and splitting it across suppliers moves the coordination burden onto the programme officer. Zhikal takes the whole chain under one contract and one named project lead, with regional coordinators who live in the zone they cover.
Zhikal is an independent Afghan-owned company. It has delivered assignments for UN agencies, international NGOs and national organisations since 2011; those relationships are contractual, and nothing on this site should be read as endorsement, accreditation or affiliation by any of them.
What this audience needs from a logistics partner
Suppliers who can actually reach the district
A vendor list that stops at provincial capitals is a plan that fails in the last forty kilometres. Field teams and regional coordinators are based where the delivery happens.
Competitive sourcing that survives review
Documented market research, like-for-like quotation comparison and written client approval before any commitment is made.
Evidence produced as the work happens
GRNs, waybills, delivery notes, beneficiary acknowledgements and photographs captured in the field, not reconstructed at closeout.
Mobilisation inside a programme timeline
Standing supplier relationships and pre-financing capacity let a task order move from award to first delivery without a new tender.
One accountable point of contact
A named project lead in Kabul answerable for sourcing, storage, movement, delivery and the file — not five vendors and a coordination meeting.
Work in the language of the location
Field teams, interpreters and beneficiary-facing staff operating in Dari, Pashto and English as the location requires.
The services this audience engages.
Each capability is scoped and priced on its own terms and can be engaged without the rest, or combined under one contract with a single project lead accountable for the whole chain.
Procurement & Supply in Afghanistan
Market research, competitive quotation, inspection against specification and verified delivery for programmes that must evidence value for money.
Food, NFI & Hygiene Kits in Afghanistan
Sourcing, kitting and multi-province distribution of food packages, non-food items and hygiene kits, with beneficiary records at handover.
Project Logistics in Afghanistan
One workplan covering sourcing, storage, movement, field delivery and closeout when a programme needs a single accountable partner.
Events & Field Support in Afghanistan
Workshops, training and stakeholder consultations with attendance controls, per-diem administration and a reconciled financial file.
Cash Administration in Afghanistan
Beneficiary and participant payments with identity verification, individual acknowledgements and daily reconciliation.
Warehousing in Afghanistan
Receipt, stock control, secure storage and dispatch with an audit trail from arrival to proof of delivery.
Fleet & Transportation in Afghanistan
Inter-provincial freight, project vehicles for field teams and last-mile delivery into districts beyond the capitals.
Digital Solutions in Afghanistan
Structured data capture and dashboards so field records reach programme reports without being retyped.
Controls a donor-funded contract needs.
Compliance requirements differ by donor and by agency, so controls are agreed against the contract rather than assumed. These are the ones applied by default.
Supplier due diligence
Licensing, capacity, references and conflict-of-interest checks before a supplier is engaged on a client's work.
Competitive sourcing
Documented quotation comparison and written approval, so the selection decision is reviewable after the fact.
Quality inspection
Specification, quantity, expiry and condition verified before dispatch and again on receipt.
Chain of custody
GRNs, waybills, delivery notes and recipient evidence linking every item from purchase to handover.
Financial controls
Approved budgets, supporting invoices and a reconciliation that ties the payment file to the delivery file.
Safeguarding and HSE
Client codes of conduct, PSEA commitments, route assessment and field-risk controls applied to deployed teams.
Coverage across Afghanistan.
National coordination, finance and project leadership sit in Kabul. Four regional offices — Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar and Herat — run delivery across the eastern, northern, southern and western zones, reaching all 34 provinces and a field network of more than 250 districts. Contracts record delivery by name in Kabul, Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan, Zabul, Nimroz and Farah, among others.
Every province and its coordinating office →Documented assignments.
UN Women — nationwide non-food-item retainer
An active retainer through December 2026 covering market research, pre-financed procurement, quality assurance, warehousing, transport and accountability records across 28 listed item categories and six delivery corridors.
ASSDO — warehouse management across ten provinces
A 12-month, audit-ready warehouse-management contract worth USD 306,000, spanning delivery, packaging, record-keeping and warranty obligations.
OSDRA — cash disbursement and event management
27 workshop days across five provinces, valued at USD 24,285, covering venue, catering, participant transport allowances, sound, media and IT equipment, with full payment documentation.
Norwegian Church Aid — NFI, PPE and specialist equipment
Supply and transport of non-food items and PPE tools in Kabul, valued at AFN 876,490, alongside procurement of a geophysical underground-water detector at USD 8,190.
Women for Women International — food supply
Food supply across five provinces, valued at approximately AFN 7.13 million.
Nationwide survey support
Vehicles deployed in all 34 provinces for more than seven months, supporting an education-supply survey covering 33 provincial warehouses, 354 district warehouses and 4,537 school stocks.
Assignments are summarised from contracts and completion records supplied by Zhikal. Client names identify documented relationships and do not imply endorsement, accreditation or affiliation.
Common questions.
- Is Zhikal affiliated with the United Nations?
- No. Zhikal is an independent Afghan-owned company established in 2011. It has held contracts with UN agencies, international NGOs and national organisations, and those relationships are commercial. The company holds UNGM vendor number 915887, which is a supplier registration in the United Nations Global Marketplace and nothing more — it is not endorsement, accreditation, approval or a contract award.
- What registration details are available for prequalification?
- Business licence D-40232, tax identification number 9000451071 and UNGM vendor number 915887 are published on the about and contact pages. Full registration, tax and compliance documentation, completion certificates and client references are provided to procurement panels on request.
- Can Zhikal work under a task-order framework?
- Yes, and most institutional engagements run that way. A framework or retainer establishes rates and terms once; individual requirements are then issued as task orders and mobilised without a fresh procurement cycle. The current nationwide non-food-item retainer runs on this model through December 2026.
- What documentation is handed over at closeout?
- Quotation comparisons, inspection records, goods received notes, waybills, delivery notes, distribution and attendance records, photographic evidence, invoices and a final reconciliation — compiled in the client's own reporting format.
- Can Zhikal pre-finance procurement?
- Yes, under agreed terms. The nationwide non-food-item retainer is delivered on a pre-financed basis, with the client reimbursing against verified delivery and supporting documentation.
- How quickly can an assignment mobilise?
- Timing depends on specification, volume, destination and season. Standing supplier relationships and regional teams remove the tender step for framework clients, which is usually the longest part; a delivery schedule is confirmed in writing before mobilisation rather than estimated here.
- Which languages do field teams work in?
- Dari, Pashto and English. Interpretation for workshops and beneficiary-facing activity is arranged according to the location and audience.
Operational guidance.
Guide · Procurement
Procurement planning for NGOs in Afghanistan
What determines whether a purchase lands on time in Afghanistan is rarely the price comparison. It is the specification, the destination, the season and the evidence plan — decided before the requisition is raised.
Guide · Field operations
Last-mile delivery in remote Afghan provinces
Reaching a provincial capital is a freight problem with known answers. Reaching a district beyond it is a coordination problem, and it is where most distribution plans lose their schedule.
Guide · Events and field support
Planning workshops and training events in Afghanistan
An institutional workshop is a logistics and accountability exercise wearing an agenda. Most of what determines whether it succeeds is decided before anyone books a room.
Start a conversation.
Share the scope, the destinations, the controls that apply and the timeline. The reply comes back with the operational approach, not a brochure.
The other sector.
Commercial, institutional and private-sector clients
Procurement, freight, vehicles, storage and event delivery for companies, contractors and institutions operating between Afghan provinces.