| Reporting Organization: | Relief International |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 6,909,063 |
| Timeframe: | March 24, 2017 - March 31, 2022 |
| Status: | Implementation |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
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| Afghanistan - $ 6,909,063.00 (100.00%) | |
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| Human Rights, Advocacy & Public Engagement (24.13 %) | |
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| Sexual & Gender-based Violence (21.3 %) | |
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| Education (14.57 %) | |
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The project supports the protection of rights of Afghan women and girls from gender-based violence. It strengthens Afghan civil society organizations to coordinate, advocate, protect and promote the rights and empowerment of women and girls. Programming includes economic empowerment of women activities aimed at expanding livelihood opportunities. The initiative aims to address both urgent and long-term needs of gender-based violence (GBV), through strengthening resilience and promoting a more supportive society. The capacity to engage and better support the rights of women is enhanced for members of Afghan civil society organizations, protection providers, religious leaders and women entrepreneurs, and relevant linkages are facilitated between civil society, policy makers and government actors. The project reach is approximately 13,000 direct beneficiaries and up to 627,000 indirect beneficiaries (including women and girls, men and boys in targeted provinces). Direct beneficiaries include teachers and schoolchildren, religious leaders, female entrepreneurs and protection providers.
| Gender and age: | Adult women Adult men Adolescent females Adolescent males Children, girls Children, boys |
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| Total Direct Population: | 13,000 |
| Total Indirect Population: | 627,000 |
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Return to topThe expected outcomes for this project include: (1) strengthened protection of the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan from gender-based violence; and (2) Afghan civil society organizations are strengthened to better coordinate, advocate, protect and promote the rights and empowerment of women and girls.
Results achieved as of March 2019 include: (1) 1,045 authority figures were trained on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) Law by the local partner Afghan Women Skills Development Centre (AWSDC), including 964 police officers (of which 76 were women), 47 prosecutors (including 5 women) and 34 paralegals (including 6 women); (2) 7,683 women and girls have completed awareness sessions on women’s rights, confidence building and psychological first aid; (3) 72 teachers have been trained on the risks of child marriage and 24 schools are carrying out periodic participatory classes on child marriage, and school-teachers then replicated these trainings which reached 2,711 girls and boys in Ghazni and Kapisa; (4) 70 mullahs from 7 different districts participated in a child marriage prevention training, who then provided awareness raising through the Friday evening prayers to 35,502 community members; and (5) 100 women entrepreneurs were provided with technical trainings in poultry, dairy, food processing, handicraft and financial literacy.
