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Food Security and Rural Livelihood

1.1 Strategic Objective

 

Unemployed men, women and youth have secured entrepreneurial opportunities and sustainable employment

 

To do this we will:

 

-        Assist the unemployed, but women in particular, to establish their own self-help and income-generating groups (CBOs).

 

-        Provide individuals and self-help group member's business training and advice for establishing and managing their own enterprises, including value chain development.

 

-        Make vocational skills training available to the unemployed in the community, particularly women and youth, and new businesses.

-        Provide job seekers (mainly youth) with training in looking for jobs and making job applications.

 

-        Identify micro-credit institutions and any other sources of business finance relevant to our target groups and link individuals and new businesses to them

 

-        Facilitate linkages between CBOs and new businesses, with the markets and other relevant businesses, associations, and capacity building organizations.

 

-        Lead an advocacy campaign in cooperation with international donors and partners, and other Afghan NGOs for the development and adoption of a national inclusive employment policy for promoting job creation in general, but particularly for women.



1.2 Strategic Objective

 

Men and women farmers have diversified and increased their income

To do this we will:

 

-        Assist local farmers to organize in groups – farmers cooperatives and livestock associations and provide trainings and practical advice for their organizational development and for all aspects of business management;

 

-        Provide cooperative and association members with technical trainings to introduce standard and up-to-date farming and husbandry practices and standards;

 

-        Provide farmers with inputs such as seed and fertilizer, to increase production and new tools and machinery to modernize techniques and increase mechanization.

-        Rehabilitate irrigation structures to raise production and increase the efficiency of water management;