US role in rebuilding Afghanistan and bill of year 2005

Policy Council on Afghan Women (PCAW) is non partisan non sectarian coalition consisting of Afghan led and US NGO’s and other international organizations. PCAW and AWN believe that US is in best position to support in rebuilding of Afghanistan after integrating the perspectives and recommendations of women’s civil society organizations and other women leaders.

Considering the influence of US assistants to Afghanistan, AWN and PCAW is doing advocacy and lobbying on behalf of Afghan women for the bill of the year 2005.

How participants will attend to this event?

In this event 5 women will participate from various member NGOs of AWN

1. Makay Siawash, Executive committee member of AWN & Director of KOO
2. Roshan Sirran, Director of Training Human Rights Association
3. Nelofar Qadiri, Program Manager and research Officer of WCLRF (Women & Children Legal Research Foundation)
4. Arezo, Translator of Micro Finance and Business, Turin Italy managed by ILO.
5. Brishna, Teacher (non member)

Why to attend?
AWN is closely working with Policy Council on Afghan Women for the advocacy of getting funds for Afghan women. This group (PCAW) had several delegations in USA in May 2004 and now in March 2005. The purpose is to bring women together to raise voice of women and put pressure on USA Congress to release funds for Afghan women. This group of 5 will attend it in order to highlight Afghan women condition in USA and to let the people there know what is happening with women in Afghanistan. They also have prepared an agenda that includes issues of women and relevant suggestions for solving it.

For How Many Days?
They will be there for 11 days (March 1-11, 2005).

What will be the output?
The output of the program would be to highlight;
The grant of about 15 million dollars that has been transferred to Afghanistan with the focus of utilization on works of rehabilitation, health, construction, capacity building of civil society with the effect of a very small portion left for women related issues. The group will work on how to include a significant amount of the money for Afghan women and women led NGOs. The agenda that the group will submit to the USA Congress may help Afghanistan and Afghan women to have grants for their capacity building and working in community for next 6 years.
The output will more obvious after the group’s delegation is over so that further details could be provided

AWN’s 5th Workshop on Youth Political Awareness

Kabul 31-Jan-2005

AWN with colloboration and financial support of WK conducted a two days workshop on political awareness of youth in Kabul on 30-31-Jan-2005 in NCB meeting hall at Kabul. More than 20 participants including individuals and participants from various member NGOs took active participation in the workshop.

AWN’s 5th Workshop on Youth Political Awareness (Peshawar)

Peshawarl 31-Jan-2005

Another workshop of the same series was conducted in AWN meeting hall at Peshawar and was actively participated by 21 participants. This was the fifth workshop of the Youth Awareness program and the sixth workshop of this series will be conducted on 14th and 15th of this month which is planned for about 20 participants.

AWN’s 4th Youth Awareness workshop

26-27 Jan, 2005

AWN conducted 4th workshop of youth awareness program. This two day workshop was conducted on 26-27 January, 2005 at AWN meeting hall. 21 participants took active participation in the workshop.

In workshop the importance of youth political awareness was highlighted.

The participants were informed about the oppertunities of participation that are open to them and the oppertunities that are actually utilized.

AWN’s Advocacy and awareness program

Project Justification:

A unique aspect of AWN is AWN’s Advocacy and awareness program. AWN currently trains women in different fields in Kabul, Jalalabad and in Peshawar- Pakistan. This project is especially designed for youth to educate them about political issues. Youth are the important part of our society that has been ignored since last years.

They are the mostly fresh citizens and without their participation no change could be made in country’s political process. They want to participate if there is an opportunity. Let’s provide the opportunity for them and let’s begin with educating them first in order to raise youth’s awareness of political rights and encourage their participation in Afghan political processes.

AWN with the collaboration of Womankind Worldwide and German State Department, for raising awareness of Afghan youth, successfully facilitated a two days training workshop under topic of "What is politics/ why we need to learn it? Who is involved and/or affected?" on January 2nd and 3rd in AWN Peshawar meeting hall. German State Department funds this four months project.

This training workshop conducted by AWN trainers Mr. Najmur Rahman Mawaj, Mr. Sarwar Saier and Ms. Shukria Yasini for training 22 youth Afghan females.
By the end of program the participants were well trained and got new information about Politics. They suggested AWN to provide further trainings on Politics and other topics.u

AWN - Capacity Building training program for women

One of the core objectives of AWN is to build the capacity of Afghan women inside and outside the country and in this connection AWN has launched a series of Capacity building training programs. One such program was organized for improvement and building the capacity of Afghan Female recently in which AWN conducted a free training program in Peshawar under the title “Entry classes for University ”. In this program classes of different subjects including Maths and Trigonometry were arranged. The first term of this course started on May 1st and ended on December 24th and the second term started on June 24th and ended on December 24th.

A total of 60 female students participated in this courses in which 20 successful students were awarded certificates by AWN.

The participants of this courses commended the AWN effort for conducting such courses and suggested to continue to facilitate such educational trainings in futuere as wel.

AWN with the collaboration of Compassion Services International organized a Medical Service for one of its member NGOs, AWCA on December 15th, 2004 at Peshawar.

Compassion Services International described 157 Afghans, which included women and children diseases and distribute them medicine.

AWN also organized another Medical Service with the collaboration of Compassion Services International and distributed Vitamin A among children of different schools in Peshawar.

Background of the Organization Compassion Services International (CSI) Peshawar, Pakistan

• Compassion Services International (CSI) was established in 1985 as non-profit humanitarian organization.
  
• The purpose is to reach around the world wit compassion to people in suffering.
  
• As Emergency Response Network, Compassion Services International brings relief to people affected by earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and famines.
• The organization initiated Primary Health Care Program for the local community, particularly for Afghan Refugees in Peshawar – Pakistan in 2002.
• This medical relief program runs in accordance with World Health Organization’s International Conference on Primary Health Care, held in 1978.
• Although the initial program is restricted to the suffering Afghan refugees in District Peshawar, yet the organization aims at expanding nationwide.
• The organization respects the cultural norms of its areas of operation and abides by all the governmental laws regarding NGO(s) in Pakistan.
• Apart from stationary clinics in Peshawar, the organization also has mobile camps that provide health care services to Afghan refugee at their doorsteps.