| Reporting Organization: | War Child Canada |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 5,946,900 |
| Timeframe: | February 22, 2017 - March 31, 2021 |
| Status: | Implementation |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
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| Afghanistan - $ 5,946,900.00 (100.00%) | |
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| Human Rights, Advocacy & Public Engagement (60 %) | |
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| Gender Equality (40 %) | |
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The project aims to broaden and strengthen an enabling environment for the rights and protection of women, and to empower them through grass roots strategies in Afghanistan. It supports efforts to strengthen the implementation of the Law on the Elimination of Violence Against Women and promotes collaborative local and national civil society networks in order to influence and mainstream gender equality into government policy-making. Results are achieved through raising awareness and capacity development, as well as by providing enhanced service delivery and empowering women to take stronger roles in decision-making processes. Project activities include: (1) enabling 20 civil society organisations to map protection issues for women and provide grants for protection projects serving 2,000 community members; (2) developing protection action plans with relevant ministries and civil society organizations; (3) providing legal aid to 3,100 survivors of gender-based violence; (4) providing formal psychosocial counselling for 3,000 women; (5) training 180 female volunteers as community-based educators to raise awareness of gender-based violence and facilitate referrals to services; (6) providing income opportunities to 500 women and offering vocational apprenticeships to 600 women; and (7) reaching 160,000 community members through awareness and media sensitization on women’s rights and empowerment issues, including targeted sensitization for 3,500 men. Overall, the project is expected to support 9,300 direct beneficiaries and up to 167,300 indirect beneficiaries (including women, men and children in targeted cities and provinces). Direct beneficiaries include survivors of gender-based violence, women in need of legal aid, peer counseling and psychosocial services, and women requiring basic education and vocational apprenticeships to further their socio-economic status. Also, 20 civil society organizations benefit from the project as they increase their capacity to implement community-protection-based programing in support of women and girls.
| Gender and age: | Adult women Adolescent females Children, girls |
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| Total Direct Population: | 9,300 |
| Total Indirect Population: | 167,300 |
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Return to topThe expected outcomes for this project include: (1) Afghan society and government are more effectively supporting the protection of rights of women and girls from gender-based violence through enhanced commitment, policies and programming that defend the rights of women and girls; and (2) strengthened Afghan civil society organizations are actively coordinating, advocating, protecting and promoting the rights and empowerment of women and girls.
Results achieved as of March 2018 include: (1) 590 legal actors, government officials and community leaders trained on and demonstrating an improved knowledge of the Law on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) and responding to gender-based violence (GBV) cases; (2) 24 community-based protection mechanisms (CBPMs) established with 1,200 members who are actively preventing and responding to violations of women’s rights and protection in their communities: CBPMs referred 34 cases to the legal aid team, 185 to psychosocial counselling services, 12 cases to health facilities and 39 cases were resolved through alternate dispute resolution; (3) 1,750 GBV survivors and other community members (including 1,271 women) accessing psychosocial support, including 1,408 people (including 945 females) who are attending weekly support groups; (4) the registration of 504 GBV survivors’ cases was supported with 229 cases represented in formal court systems and 275 cases settled through alternative dispute resolution mediation processes; and (5) 24 functional literacy and numeracy classrooms set up with 600 women enrolled.
