| Reporting Organization: | Zardozi |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 5,985,534 |
| Timeframe: | March 14, 2017 - March 31, 2020 |
| Status: | Completion |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
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| Afghanistan - $ 5,985,534.00 (100.00%) | |
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| Gender Equality (40 %) | |
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| Education (34.06 %) | |
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| Human Rights, Advocacy & Public Engagement (15.93 %) | |
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| Sexual & Gender-based Violence (10.01 %) | |
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The project aims to strengthen Afghan civil society organizations to coordinate, advocate, protect and promote the rights and empowerment of women and girls. Support is provided to a membership-based organization of informal women workers, to deliver business support services and to advocate for women’s economic empowerment. Community business centres are established to deliver skills development training sessions and workshops, and services for micro-businesses to women in local communities. It is expected that approximately 6,000 direct beneficiaries in four provinces will seize market opportunities and actively engage in community planning and decision making processes. Advocacy efforts of civil society organizations at the provincial and national levels reach out to wider communities of indirect beneficiaries. Men and boys also benefit from enhanced awareness and their roles as change agents.
| Gender and age: | Adult women Adult men Adolescent females Adolescent males Children, girls Children, boys |
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| Total Direct Population: | 6,027 |
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Return to topThe expected outcome for the project is to strengthen Afghan civil society organizations to better coordinate, advocate, protect and promote the rights and empowerment of women and girls.
Results achieved as of March 2018 include: (1) 3,452 women supported, who in turn employed 631 women in completing business training; (2) 985 women assisted in supporting their community business centres; (3) average increase in monthly income of 302%; for women trained who established businesses; (4) 66% of the women trained self-identified as survivors of violence and have successfully gained employment; (5) 986 people (357 women, 619 men and boys) trained in workshops on women and girls’ rights and protection; (6) 93% of community members surveyed felt that women supported by Zardozi were better able to advocate for and exercise their rights; (7) 130 community business centres were supported, 30 of which took action to improve women’s rights and protection issues in their community.
