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ABOUT INTERACTION
InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
focused on the world’s poor and most vulnerable people.
At InterAction, we recognize that our global challenges are interconnected and that we can’t tackle any of
them without addressing all of them. That’s why we create a forum for leading NGOs, global thought
leaders, and policymakers to address our challenges collectively. Leveraging our shared expertise, on-
the-ground insights from our member organizations, and strategic analyses of the foreign aid budget, we
deliver a bold, new agenda to end global poverty and deliver humanitarian aid in every developing
country.
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www.interaction.org
MAP OF AREA................................................................................................................................................ 6
ORGANIZATION PROFILES
ACADEMY FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................... 8
ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF AGENCY ......................................................................... 10
AGENCY FOR TECHNICAL COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT .................................................... 12
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE ............................................................................................. 14
CAMPAIGN FOR INNOCENT VICTIMS IN CONFLICT ............................................................................. 15
CARE ............................................................................................................................................... 16
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES............................................................................................................ 17
CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL ......................................................................................................... 19
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE .............................................................................................................. 21
CONCERN WORLDWIDE U.S........................................................................................................... 23
COUNTERPART INTERNATIONAL ................................................................................................... 25
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS ........................................................... 27
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ................................................................................................. 29
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE .......................................................................................... 31
LIFE FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................ 33
MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH ......................................................................................... 35
MERCY CORPS ................................................................................................................................ 37
OXFAM AMERICA ........................................................................................................................... 39
RELIEF INTERNATIONAL ................................................................................................................. 41
SAVE THE CHILDREN ...................................................................................................................... 43
UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEF................................................................................ 45
WORLD VISION............................................................................................................................... 47
The 22 member organizations that submitted information for this report are conducting relief and
development operations in Afghanistan. Various issues are addressed in their programs, including
agriculture and food security, shelter, gender, water and sanitation, health care, economic development,
education and vocational training, infrastructure and governance, refugee and internally displaced person
(IDP) services, conflict resolution, and others.
InterAction member agencies work in provinces throughout Afghanistan, including Badakhshan, Badghis,
Balkh, Bamiyan, Daikundi, Farah, Ghazni, Ghor, Herat, Jawzan, Kabul, Kandahar, Kapisa, Khost, Kunar,
Laghman, Logar, Nangarhar, Nimroz, Nurestan, Paktika, Paktya, Panjshir, Parwan, Wardak, and Zabul.
Many of the contributing organizations work in partnership with local communities, NGOs, and
government ministries. In addition, they coordinate with various international NGOs, often through the
Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR), and with United Nations (UN) agencies.
Agencies highlighted several key challenges that affect their work in Afghanistan. In particular, NGOs cite
security concerns for both their staff and the Afghan people. Weak local government capacity, shrinking
humanitarian space, and poor infrastructure are other issues identified in this report.
Map provided courtesy of the ReliefWeb Map Centre, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
CHALLENGES
The Afghan society at large still welcomes
international presence and assistance. However,
there is a growing resentment from the public,
although not targeted directly at international
presence, toward the worsening social,
economic, and security environment in the
country. Moreover, the government lacks control
in certain regions of the country which are
predominantly inhabited by pro-Taliban
ADRA provided more than 80 water pumps to communities in communities.
northern Afghanistan’s Shebergan District in rural Jawzan Province.
This project benefitted approximately 17,000 individuals. Photo:
ADRA International
The major concern for the international and the
Afghan communities is the ongoing insecurity,
ADRA Afghanistan also enjoys the support and which has proven to be the primary obstacle
goodwill of the beneficiary communities it hampering many of the development and relief
serves, and has maintained friendly relations programs in the country. The essential national
with the local communities, irrespective of their progress towards solidarity continues to be
ethnic or cultural backgrounds. thwarted by internal power struggles and
external politics, threatening the hope for a
peaceful and progressive nation.
COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS
ChildFund assists more than a half million children and their family ChildFund proactively seeks to work jointly with
members in Afghanistan. Photo: ChildFund donors interested in their work. These include,
but are not limited to, USAID, U.S. State Bureau
ChildFund has learned that 95 percent of of Populations, Refugees, and Migration
women said they have experienced gender- (BPRM), European Union, UNIFEM, UNHCR,
based violence. There are no formal prevention UNICEF, the Australian Agency for International
programs in the 20 communities where Development (AusAid), the New Zealand Agency for
ChildFund works, outside of those ChildFund International Development (NZAid), and the
operates. Through programs in mediation, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
ChildFund has helped to decrease the
prevalence of physical abuse by husbands and CHALLENGES
other family members of women and young girls. ChildFund confronts a number of challenges,
many of which surround women’s empowerment
Health and the education of girls. In addition to raising
ChildFund has constructed health posts and awareness of gender issues, health care and
provided equipment, supplies, and training to juvenile justice and rehabilitation facilities all
present major challenges.
Health Care
CWS is continuing health programs serving
approximately 170,000 people in Nangarhar
Province and the Mansehra District of Pakistan.
The project goals are to strengthen community
decision-making and improve current health
levels by supporting preventative and essential
curative health care services for returning
refugees, other Afghans in Nangarhar Province,
and refugees in Mansehra.
Agriculture and Food Security Concern’s HIV program involves the training of
Concern’s Food, Income, and Markets (FIM) mullahs, medical students, community health
program aims to reduce poverty and improve workers, and police. Concern developed
food security by training local community groups research films aiming to challenge negative
and government bodies, strengthening stereotypes and labeling of people living with
community structures, and implementing natural HIV/AIDS (PLHIV). These films will continue to
resource management and disaster risk be disseminated throughout Afghanistan in
reduction (DRR) projects. The FIM program has 2011. Further innovative initiatives are being
a strong water management focus, working with developed, including working in conjunction with
community development councils and water- a local NGO on HIV-related issues in District 16,
user groups to effectively manage and maintain Kabul. Concern is mainstreaming HIV across the
water canals and empower user groups to country program and developing linkages with
advocate for resources in order to improve their HIV-focused NGOs.
Website
The mission of Counterpart is to empower www.counterpart.org
people to implement innovative and enduring
solutions to social, economic, and environmental
challenges.
officials, women’s rights, and the interaction
COUNTERPART IN AFGHANISTAN between democracy and Islam. Counterpart has
Counterpart’s work in Afghanistan focuses on built upon its face-to-face sessions with a
partnering with local Afghan organizations to nationwide radio campaign that focused on the
build their organizational capacity and same messages.
supporting these organizations to become
sustainable and effective. To accomplish this, Education and Training
Counterpart has created a network of more than Using an innovative cascade training method,
200 civil society organizations (CSOs) and used Counterpart has trained hundreds of local civic
innovative training techniques to successfully educators and has provided civic education
spread best practices for CSOs. lessons in 33 provinces. Counterpart also wrote
and designed the ―Civic Education Handbook‖
Grants Program that provides an overview of Islam and
Since 2005, Counterpart has awarded more democracy, government, parliament, the
than $4.5 million in institutional support grants to judiciary system, elections, and women in
Afghan NGOs and directly trained 5,225 (3,728 society. Besides being distributed to
male, 1,497 female) individuals in key technical Counterpart’s civic educators, 40,000 copies of
areas like gender, advocacy, monitoring and this handbook will be distributed by the Ministry
evaluation (M&E), media, and NGO law. of Education for use by Afghan school teachers.
Through its small grants program, more than
320,000 Afghan citizens have directly benefitted Gender
from grants that promote human rights, women’s Counterpart has been active in promoting
rights, education, environmental protection, gender equality in Afghanistan. More than half of
community involvement, and advocacy. Counterpart’s institutional support grants went to
women-led or women-focused projects. In 2008,
Civic Education Counterpart led the first Women’s Council in
Counterpart has also played an important role in Afghanistan. The event brought together more
civic education efforts in the country. By than 400 women with the goal to advance the
partnering with local civil society organizations, National Action Plan for the Women of
Counterpart has engaged almost two million Afghanistan (NAPWA) and to develop a list of
Afghans in face-to-face civic education sessions short-term priorities, which was delivered to
that focus on topics such as democracy and President Hamid Karzai.
elections, good governance, the roles of elected
CHALLENGES
Life staff faces many challenges. There are
security risks including the ongoing war,
frequent bomb blasts in public places, and
Life provides food for orphans in Afghanistan. Photo: Life random kidnappings. Afghanistan is also
disaster-prone, which can lead to damage to
Refugees and IDPs infrastructure, such as roads, making it difficult
Life assists IDPs in Afghanistan and returning to access some areas where communities are in
refugees by providing food and other essential need of basic commodities to survive.
items to poor families that are in need.
Pharmaceutical Systems
The Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems
(SPS) Program (2007-12) builds on the work
initiated under previous MSH projects in
increasing Afghanistan’s ability to manage
pharmaceuticals. The SPS Program works with
Afghan partners to establish and maintain a
transparent procurement system; increase the
availability to safe, effective, and affordable
pharmaceuticals; and ensure the quality of
pharmaceuticals, particularly in the private
sector.
A female health worker vaccinates a woman at a health facility in
Access to Health Information and Products rural Afghanistan as part of the Basic Package of Health Services
The Communication for Behavior Change: (BPHS). Photo: MSH Kabul
Expanding Access to Private Sector Health
Products and Services in Afghanistan (COMPRI- COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS
A) Project increases Afghans’ access to health USAID is one of three donors funding health
information and products by strengthening services in Afghanistan. MSH works with the
private sector capacity through a comprehensive other two, the World Bank and the European
and integrated social marketing program. MSH, Commission, to assure equity across the
as subcontractor to Futures Group, leads the country. MSH also works with other international
policy and public-private collaboration organizations working in the health sector in
components of the project, and led community Afghanistan, including Jhpiego, Futures Group,
mobilization through September 2010. and the Global Fund.
Governance
RI works towards poverty alleviation in
Afghanistan via civil participation and good
governance promotion activities at the village,
district, and provincial levels. RI works both
directly and through local partners to engage
community members and government officials
on the development of strategies and tools, such
as radio programs, that raise awareness and
opportunities for engagement and create forums
for realizing greater citizenship.
COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS
Relief International’s Libraries Program helps combat illiteracy by
Through the provision of recovery and
providing community-based access to books and literature and development services, RI has developed strong
cultivating a culture of learning for youth in some of the most under- linkages with local communities and
served areas across Afghanistan. Photo: Relief International
organizations. RI collaborates with local
Health ministries working in service building, UN
RI is facilitating greater access to health care for agencies, interagency working groups, and a
vulnerable prison populations as a Global Fund variety of humanitarian partners. RI ensures key
partner, aiming to increase awareness, stakeholders from within the beneficiary
prevention, and support for HIV/AIDs and TB, community are part of the development and
including a targeted project for the Nangarhar implementation of activities where possible to
female prison and juvenile detention center. RI promote essential civil society building across all
is strengthening the existing HIV prevention, sectors of operation. RI trains and involves
treatment, and care services for female drug communities in its assistance programs, thus
users in the prison setting. In addition, RI is fostering a sense of ownership and also building
contributing to the development of a greater local capacity for long-term and relevant results.
sensitivity in Afghanistan to provide gender-
sensitive approaches to comprehensive HIV CHALLENGES
prevention, treatment, and care services for RI works in some of the most remote and
women and drug-affected populations. underserved communities in Afghanistan. While
operational challenges are the norm, RI
Infrastructure navigates difficulties through the efforts of a
RI has ongoing community infrastructure skilled, majority national team that understands
rehabilitation activities through several the country’s physical and cultural landscape. RI
partnerships that aim to increase access to vital also emphasizes the consultation of local
infrastructure and improved livelihoods stakeholders in activity implementation and
opportunities for communities of high refugee problem solving so as to build partnership on
return. Working in partnership with community decisions and outcomes that lead to greater
development councils (CDCs), RI supports local ownership of services over time.
community processes to prioritize and construct
When disaster strikes around the world, Save cooperation with the communities and with local
the Children is there to save lives with food, ownership.
medical care, and education, and remains to
Health and Nutrition
help communities rebuild through long-term
Children in Afghanistan face one of the worst
recovery programs. Save the Children works to
chances of survival anywhere in the world. One
resolve the ongoing struggles children face
in four children dies before his or her fifth
every day — poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and
birthday, many of easily preventable causes.
disease — and replace them with hope for the
future. Save the Children works with families,
communities, and health care workers in homes,
SAVE THE CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN
health posts, clinics, and hospitals to promote
Save the Children has worked in Afghanistan
basic health, well being, and survival,
since 1976. Almost all their staff is Afghan. Save
particularly for children younger than five and for
the Children cooperates with children, parents,
women of childbearing age.
teachers, village councils, religious leaders,
ministries, and other national and international In addition to government healthcare leaders
NGOs. Their way of working close to people and and administrators, Save the Children supports
on their own terms has enabled Save the doctors, nurses, and community midwives
Children to deliver lasting change to tens of directly with training and material. Save the
thousands of children in the country. Children trains and supports community health
workers and community-based nutrition groups
Child Protection
who work out of their own homes to reach some
Save the Children fights for children’s rights to
of the poorest and most remote areas in
protection. They work closely with local
Afghanistan.
communities, religious leaders, parents,
teachers, and the government at different levels Save the Children lobbies governments, donors,
to create and help maintain measures and and other organizations to help secure funds
structures that can prevent and respond to and replicate successful health interventions.
abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence
affecting children. Education
In 2002 there were one million children in school
Save the Children believes that positive change in Afghanistan. Today, there are over six million.
will come when values and children’s rights are This represents an enormous achievement, but
discussed in the local community. All Save the more efforts are needed to raise the level of
Children projects are implemented in education, improve the conditions in schools,
COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS
Save the Children works closely with a number
of local Afghan NGO and civil society actors, not
only to implement programs, but to influence
policy makers especially in the area of child
rights.
A girl during class in an accelerated learning center in Balkh Province Save the Children has played an instrumental
in northern Afghanistan. Photo: Mats Lignell / Save the Children role in the Child Rights Consortium when writing
the alternative report on the Convention on the
Inside the educational system, Save the Rights of the Child.
Children fights for higher standards and a safe
learning environment free from violence. Where CHALLENGES
there are no schools, Save the Children helps to With a per capita annual income of $148, a life
create them. Through working with village expectancy slightly under 45 years, only 10
councils, religious leaders, parents, and percent literacy among rural women, almost half
children, Save the Children helps create an of young children moderately or severely
acceptance and a demand for education. The malnourished, and one of the world’s highest
village always builds and maintains the schools maternal and infant mortality rates, Afghanistan
itself to create local ownership. continues its struggle toward meaningful
development for all. Afghanistan is still one of
For many children in Afghanistan, being beaten the poorest countries in the world according to
and humiliated is a daily reality. Afghanistan still the UN Global Human Development Index.
legally permits teachers to physically punish Despite steady progress in a number of areas
children in their care. Save the Children works to (e.g., rise of the number of children going to
change that and to provide successful models of school and reduction of child and maternal
violence-free schools that can be used all over mortality), a lot remains to be done to
the country. sustainably improve the lives of the Afghan
people. However, a number of factors
Child Rights complicate further progress, of which the most
Save the Children envisages a world that striking one is the difficult security situation in
respects, protects, and fulfills children’s rights. the southern and eastern parts of the country.
Child Protection
Working together with UNICEF, UMCOR
Photo: UMCOR
Afghanistan facilitated the re-integration of
1,500 former child soldiers and organized
Most materials distributed were donated by vocational training and job placement for 400
United Methodists and shipped to Afghanistan war-affected children in Kabul, Logar, Parwan,
from UMCOR’s Sager Brown Depot in Wardak, Kapisa, and Paktya provinces.
Louisiana. The most popular United Methodist-
COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS
donated items distributed were health kits (hand
UMCOR Afghanistan coordinates with many
towel, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, and
international and national humanitarian partners
other hygiene items) and school kits (school
in Afghanistan, including UNHCR, UNAMA, and
bag, paper, scissors, pencils, and other school
the Afghan Government’s Ministry of Refugees
supplies). Other items donated by UMCOR or
and Repatriation (MoRR) and Ministry of Rural
procured through funds from donors include
Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD).
blankets, wood stoves, clothing, soap, and
layette and sewing kits.
COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS
With almost 200 staff members, World Vision
Afghanistan implements projects funded through
private donations, government grants from the
U.S. and other bilateral donors, and multilateral
institutions like the Global Fund and World Food
Programme. World Vision Afghanistan
collaborates with local governments as well as
local organizations, such as the Skills Training
and Rehabilitation Society (STARS) and the
MOVE Welfare Organization.
CHALLENGES
As part of her practical training, Farishteh [family name withheld] (age
18), a midwife-in-training from Ghor Province, administers a In light of the unstable security situation in
vaccination to a newborn at the Herat Regional Hospital. Photo: Mary Afghanistan, World Vision has incorporated the
Kate MacIsaac / World Vision International
goal of enhancing the Government of
Afghanistan’s ability to promote peace and
World Vision also implements a $2.1 million stability and to deliver development initiatives to
child survival project, Better Health for Afghan benefit those it serves, mainly through increased
Mothers and Children (BHAMC), funded by stakeholder participation. However, the security
USAID to benefit 300,000 women and children. situation is unpredictable, restricting field travels
The project builds on other privately-funded and occasionally interrupting project implementation.
projects that work with newborns in a neonatal