Relief International

Published purpose

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.