ASLO-Afghanistan

Our mission: a developed Afghanistan where all, especially women and children, live with dignity and opportunity. Afghanistan Social and Legal Organization (ASLO) is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-political organization established in 2013 and is registered with the Ministry of Economy of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ASLO agrees to comply with the Afghanistan constitu

tion and national laws, especially those for NGOs’ and acts accordingly. ASLO's operates in Kabul,Takhar,Badakhshan,Baghlan,Kunduz,Badghis,Daykundi,Faryab,Ghazni,Ghor,Helmand,Herat,Jowzjan,Kandahar,Kapisa,Khost,Kunar,Laghman,Logar,Nangarhar,Nimroz,Nuristan,Urzugan,Paktia,Paktika,Samangan,Sarepul,Wardak,Zabul and Mazar-esharif, provinces. ASLO has a board of directors and management teams each of them has its own responsibilities. ASLO has good management and financial system in force. ASLO has its manual to overcome any problem. ASLO has separate policies for project and account management, level of approvals, purchase policy, etc. In a short, ASLO has a minimum of 3 signatories on each check, having policy cash safety, bank reconciliation statements, cash, and bank movement schedules purchase requests, 3 quotations, comparative statements, and purchase orders policies in force along with yearly an external audit from a reputable independent Chartered Accountant Firm and segregation of duties. Afghanistan Social and Legal Organization (ASLO) is a non-government, not-for-profit and non-partisan organization ASLO was established on 2013 by an of educated and experienced Afghan volunteers (women and Girls, Men and boys). The initial aim of the organization was to provide awareness for the women and girls under the victims and support the women and men to Afghan war victims in the field; gradually the focus shifted to assist the rehabilitation of rural and urban life, and working with communities for sustainable development in Afghanistan. ASLO develops its new five-years strategic plan for 2021 - 2025 which clearly reflects the mission and vision of the organization. REGISTRATION OF THE ORGANIZATION:
ASLO is registered with Ministry of Economy of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The organization was informally established in 2012 and was officially registered with the ministry of economy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in 2013. registration number (2852) was awarded to ASLO through NGOs Department of Ministry of Economy Kabul Afghanistan. OUR MISSION:
To help Afghanistan evolve into a peaceful and developed country where people’s basic needs are met, poverty is eradicated and social justice is promoted. OUR VISION
To empower individuals, communities, and grassroots civil society organizations by improving development indicators pertaining to health, education, agriculture, peace, gender equity, legal aid, child protection and extending disaster risk reduction support to individuals and or families in need. LEGAL STATUS
ASLO is an Afghan non-governmental, non-political, non-profit and non-partisan organization and has the status of legal entity. ASLO is Currently working in the Following sectors in Afghanistan:
• Humanitarian aid
• Agriculture and livestock.
• Wash and Sanitation
• Health& nutrition
• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
• Education
• Rural development and social protection.
• Child protection
• Research
• Gender equality/equity.
• Food security
• Emergency response and supporting refugees and IDPs and returnees,
• Legal Aid and access to justice. STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
- To contribute in empowerment of individuals, communities, and grassroots civil society organizations in achieving social and economic development;
- To assist and or capacitate individuals and communities to mitigate the risks and cope with adverse effects of disasters and forced displacements;
- To improve health and nutrition standards in target areas of Afghanistan;
- To assist individuals and communities to increase food security, improve agriculture and to better manage natural resources;
- To increase access of individuals and communities to quality education.
- Gender Mainstreaming & Development, through this Strategic Goal ASLO desires to Promote Practicing Democratic values, Mainstream Equal Social Participation & Activism, Support Freedom of Choice in order to bring equity amongst citizens
- Child Protection, through this Strategic Goal, ASLO desires to protect the well-beings of children through community based mechanisms and provide equal opportunities for participation and development through various humanitarian and development programs.
- Access to Justice and Legal Protection, through this Strategic Goal ASLO desires to strengthen citizen’s access to justice and to further improve the quality of justice support system for effectively responding to women violence/gender based violence issues. STRATEGIES TO REACH THE OBJECTIVES
Strategies 1:
- Institution development and promoting social protection.
- Capacity development
- Facilitating dignified Reintegration and Reconciliation of ex-combatants
Strategies 2:
- Distributing assistance for disaster affected and forced displaced populations.
- Assisting ex-combatants for a dignified re-integration process.
- Building capacity of disaster-prone and disaster-affected population.
- Implementing disasters mitigation micro projects in affected communities. Strategies 3:
Strategies 4: Health
- Providing coordinated quality health services pertaining to preventative, and curative quality health care services.
- Strengthening and supporting health system -
- Health promotion
- Enhancing sustainable agricultural productivities
- Improving proper water management systems
- Improving better livestock management
- Enhancing better management of natural resources

Strategies 5:
- Building capacities of teaching staffs and teaching staffs
- Providing quality face to face education
- Providing quality distance and digital education
- Providing quality Education in Emergencies
- Providing Literacy for adults as online and class base
Strategies 6:
- Reviewing policies and procedures
Strategies 7:
- Gender Mainstreaming & Development, through this Strategic Goal ASLO desires to Promote Practicing Democratic values, Mainstream Equal Social Participation & Activism, Support Freedom of Choice in order to bring equity amongst citizens. Strategies 7:
- Child Protection, through this Strategic Goal, ASLO desires to protect the well-beings of children through community based mechanisms and provide equal opportunities for participation and development through various humanitarian and development programs. Strategies 8:

- Access to Justice and Legal Protection, through this Strategic Goal ASLO desires to strengthen citizen’s access to justice and to further improve the quality of justice support system for effectively responding to women violence/gender based violence issues.
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PEOPLE OF CONCERN
- Returnees and IDPs: are inevitable part of the community settlement of the country as a whole. They are the key actors in re-integration process of returnees in Afghanistan since 1987. Thus, it is obvious that in the humanitarian and development context, the returnees and IDPs can play their share of role.
- Women: ASLO considers gender mainstreaming at all phases of the program. Inclusion of females as beneficiaries, who are heads of their families and have lost their male household heads, in future interventions are major part of the revision ASLO had on its program priorities and Code of Conduct. However, ASLO foresees potential cultural and traditional sensitivities towards active participation of women to the program activities from the target communities. The measures to mitigate such sensitivities will include a massive awareness raising in the urban and rural communities, engaging leaders, Malik’s, and contextualizing the intervention methods.
- Children: An adequate well-balanced diet is the bedrock of child survival, health and development. Well-nourished children are more likely to be healthy, productive, and ready to learn. Under nutrition, by the same logic, is devastating. It blunts the intellect, saps productivity, and perpetuates poverty. Unfortunately, Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest rates of stunting in children under the age of five 41% . In order to tackle with this problem and help children gain their normal and balanced diet, for the next five years, ASLO will cover under 5 age children for treatment of mal-nutrition.




- Child Protection: ASLO administers two policies i.e. Child Safety Policy, and, Child Protection Policy. The first policy is specifically designed for ASLO programs, staff and all associated parties/partners to avoid any action or task which hurt or produce or create space for child protection concerns, and resulted in violating the rights of children. The second policy is designed to protect the well beings of children from the different abuses, discrimination, inaccessibility, cultural and societal issues, through applying the national and international standards and procedures. This policy is put in practice through executing the strategic goal: Child Education and Protection. Under this goal, ECW is working; under Priority-1 to deliver education services (EiE, CBE, ALE, ECCD), and Priority-2 to ensure protection for the vulnerable children and build Intervention to put in action Child Rights Standards within development and humanitarian programs for effective child protection, development and participation.
- Poor and marginalized people: Poor and marginalized people either from host communities or as returnees and IDPs have rarely been able to convey their messages and take part in development process, while this notion still exists among target communities. ASLO will ensure this issues are addressed and that their share of equal participation to humanitarian, development and peace initiatives are ensured.
- Youth: Some sources show that youth makes a great portion of Afghanistan’s population reaching around 22 percent. This indicates a great human resources potential that can be utilized to boost intervention impacts. ASLO will make sure that the youth potentiality at the ground level is utilized at its highest peak possible.
- People with disabilities: In the communities’ people rarely reckon for disabled people as equal to those who are not disabled. With such a stereotype, people with disabilities have gradually been marginalized. Yet there are myriads of such people who proved that they are not literally dis-abled, but they are differently-abled. ASLO will ensure that throughout its interventions for the next five years, no one is left behind and that special attention to people with disabilities is paid.
- Re-integration of individuals and families newly joining peace process: The notion behind individuals who are currently standing on the opposite side and are claiming themselves to be combatants is that they shall be excluded of all aid, both governmental and international. Though, considering the peace process and new government policy on re-integration of such individuals and their families, ASLO will make sure that the individuals along with their families are received at the community level through a dignified re-integration process and are included within the interventions. This will further prevent these individuals to deviate again due to lack of employment opportunities, social inclusion or a dignified re-integration process. CORE VALUE
- Respect: While working with the target communities, we firmly believe in respecting cultural, racial, religious, ideological diversity and principles of democracy and human rights to be a fundamental for our interventions.
- Gender Equity: At ASLO gender equity is an eminent part at professional work, where it is considered at every phase. We believe that rise of a women is rise of a nation.
- Efficiency & Effectiveness: We believe that efficiency is irrelevant until we work on the right things. At ASLO being busy is never equal to being productive.
- Belief in principles of non-violence: We believe in the equal value of every human being and the importance of valuing opinions of others; we know that change happens through people.
- Leave no one behind: We believe that when everyone is included, everyone wins. We also pay special attention to vulnerable and marginalized groups of the society including disabled as well.
- Integrity: Our team is strongly committed to conduct in a manner consistent with humanitarian principles, cultural values and ensures transparency and accountability. We are honest, ethical and fair in all our activities. We keep our word and deliver our promises.
- Innovation: We constantly strive to re-define the standard of excellence in everything we do. At ASLO, we are open to ideas that drive innovation. Our endeavor to incorporate innovation into our work is endless.
- Optimistic Perspective: At ASLO, we maintain an optimistic perspective towards future while keeping an eye on strategic and contextual humanitarian developments. Governance:
ASLO organization is governed by its Board of Director ( BoD). The Board is key part of the organization and governance body of the organization. It approves policy and procedure of the organization and evaluates the organization system and program time by time. The BoD consists of seven members (both male and female) and is headed by its Chairperson. The BoD is meeting bio annually. The Executive Director of ASLO serves the board as the secretary and ex-officio member. The Board works in the guidelines of the Board Policies Manual. ASLO is led by its Executive Director who is the formal head of the organization. The Executive Director reports to the Chairperson of the Board of Directors (BoD) and is responsible for the overall management of the organization. The manager programs and head of different department support the Executive Director and they jointly form a management structure for the organization. and works closely with above mentioned National level. Membership in networks, alliance and donors:
- Afghan women’s Networks (AWN)
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (International) HWPL
- International Alliance of Women (IAW)
- The Lifeline Embattled CSO.
- Assistance Fund (Life line).
- Afghan Civil Society integration and consolidation Election Network (ACSEN)
- Afghan Civil Society Organization Network for Peace (ACONP)
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
- Women’s Alliance for Virtual Exchange (WAVE).
- Civil Society Empowerment Network (CEN.
- Afghanistan Legal aid and advocates Network (ALAAN.
- Legal Aid High Commission on the Ministry of Justice (signed MoU with the Ministry of Justice)
- Civil Society Network for Central Asia and Afghanistan to end Sexual and Gender
- Spotlight Initiative Regional Programme for Central Asia and Afghanistan:
- Civil Society Youth Reference Group

ASLO is close partners are with the below Ministry in Afghanistan
- Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoLSAMD)
- Ministry of Higher Education
- Independent directorate of local governance
- Ministry of Public Health
- Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD)
- Ministry of water and electricity
- Afghanistan National Environmental Protection Agency
- Kabul Municipality
- Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoLSAMD)
- Afghanistan National Environmental Protection Agency
- Ministry of livestock and agriculture
- Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA)
- Afghanistan high council of land and water.
- Ministry of Justice. Afghanistan Social and Legal Organization (ASLO) believes that networking, collective efforts, shar-ing of knowledge, resources and information is a key to the success and bring a great impact of the work on the ground. In this regards; ASLO has networking with these Shelter at the provincial and National works closely with above mentioned Clusters and Sectors working Groups in Afghanistan
• Emergency Shelter and NFI
• Food Security and Agriculture
• Health
• Nutrition
• Protection
o Child Protection
o Housing, Land and Property TF
o Mine Action
• Water Sanitation Hygiene

SECTORS/WORKING GROUPS:
• Aviation.
• Accountability to Affected People Working Group
• Cash and Voucher Working Group
• Education in Emergencies WG
• Gender in Humanitarian Action
• Information Management
• Logistics
• Disability Inclusion Working Group
• Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) Task Force
ALSO STRUCTURE
ASLO is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-political, and independent organization. ASLO has its statutes which have been approved by the ministry of economy and the organization governance and the authority of the board of trustees and the board of management has been detailed in the statutes of the organization. ASLO has a board of trustees (BOT) which is comprised of volunteer members who are working outside the organization. They govern the overall organization and oversee if the organization is on track with its vision, mission, and strategy. The General Direction of the organization is selected by BOT. Daily management of the organization is the responsibility of the management team which is formed by the directors of relevant departments. They are competent persons having vast experience in management and leadership in international organizations and UN agencies. At the field level, the Project Management Team, directed by the Project Manager, is responsible for the proper implementation of projects. The technical team of Kabul Main Office provide support, monitor, and control the project field staffs and make sure that the project objectives are achieved with accepted standards. ASLO employs a flattened hierarchy in its management structure that ensures direct senior managerial engagement with staff members at all levels including those in the field offices.ASLO’s main office is based in Kabul province but currently operates in 28 provinces across Afghanistan. The main office in Kabul houses the General Director, Deputy General Director, Program Director, Operation/Finance Manager, Logistic Officer, Transport and security officer, Ad-min/HR officer, Internal control officer, IT/Inventory, Account officer and some support staff; while all provincial offices are led by the provincial manager supported by the project finance staff and administrative support staff as required. ASLO employs both male and female staff in all of its offices across Afghanistan and has the capacity to facilitate working with men and women in almost all parts of the target (under coverage) provinces

ASLO has been operating in Afghanistan since 2013 -with extensive humanitarian experience responding to conflict and natural disaster-affected caseloads and acutely vulnerable populations. ASLO plays an active role during emergency response events in the region, with a core focus on reaching the most vulnerable populations in hard-to-reach areas including contested communities. The agency has proficient staff with strong coordination, facilitation, and implementation skills, notably in emergency distributions and camp management. ASLO actively participates in cluster meetings at both national and regional levels, operates through UNOCHA, uses the 4Ws/ hub-reporting tool, and frequently shares information with relevant parties. ASLO is an NGO representative of both the Humanitarian Access Group and inter-agency task force on PSEA, and attends regular meetings with the Cash Voucher Working Group, Advocacy Working Group, Afghanistan Humanitarian Forum, Peace Working Group, INSO Round Table, ACBAR NGO Department, and Afghanistan Development Forum in Kabul
ASLO is working in a partnership with Mission East since 2015 and has implemented numerous projects such as (Emergency responders, Food, Seasonal Support – Food Vocational Training, (VT), School Feeding, and Emergency). in recent ASLO implemented Humaitanird aid project under the title of Integrated Provision of emergency winterization, cash for food and protection assistance response for conflict-affected displaced and acutely vulnerable host families in Kunduz, Takhar, and Badakhshan and Baghlan provinces with the support of GNI-Afghanistan in the following provinces such as (Takhar, Badakhshan, Kunduz, Baghlan, Samangan, Jawz Jan, Sari pol), and ASLO currently implementing the emergency project with the support of AHF/Dacar in Takhar and Badakhshan provinces during the project implementation ASLO have got a greater acceptance of the communities, line department as well as local authorities by the implementation of such vital projects in the targeted populations. ASLO organizational structures: ASLO has 30 national staff. ASLO considers gender equality and around 20% of the project staff are female. ASLO has received training on gender mainstreaming in the program and all staff is trained on protection from sexual exploitation and abuse. ASLO is Currently working in the Following sectors in Afghanistan:
• Humanitarian aid
• Agriculture and livestock.
• Health& nutrition
• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
• Education
• Rural development and social protection.
• Research
• gender equality/equity.
• Food security
• Emergency response and supporting refugees,
• Legal Aid and access to justice. ASLO VISION: To help Afghanistan evolve into a peaceful and developed country where people s basic needs are met, poverty is eradicated and social justice is promoted. ASLO Mission: To empower individuals, communities, and grassroots Civil society organizations and promote gender equity by improving development indicators pertaining to health, education, and agriculture and extending disaster risk reeducation support to individuals and or families in need. ASLO have the capacity and experience in Emergency responses (Cash, Food, emergency shelter and NFIs kits, Hygiene Kits, Winterization, Transportation & Construction, Basic Food Packages) and Humanitarian aid, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Protection of IDPs and returnees, Education, wash and health with Mission East international and DANIDA and AWN in North and East North of Afghanistan ASLO have a team and has active contributions in the OCT-OCHA meetings with and assessment and mostly has taken contribution in joint assessment for IDPs verification and needs assessment. ASLO is well-established and enjoys a good reputation in the local community, the international community, and the GIRoA. ASLO is a member of all provincial coordinating bodies like PDMC, OCT, DRR working and active member with OCH on the cluster of ES/NFI, Protection, Livelihood, Emergency, Emergency WASH, Health, Protection, Nutrition and included in all invitation emailing list of mentioned bodies. ASLO is an active member of networks such as ACSEN, ACSONP, ACSFo, AIRS, WAVE, UNODC, GNWP, AWN, and ANCB and works in close partnership with the Community Development Councils and local Shuras across the provinces of North and East North of Afghanistan, ASLO tries to don’t miss any coordination meeting is invited. ASLO has built good relationships with MoRR, MoISA, MRRD, MOWA, MOPH, MOJ, MOFA, and MORR for timely coordination and discussion over all relevant matters. ASLO is in regular contact with district and provincial governments where programs are implemented. ASLO updates the related government department with sharing information in individual and group discussion meetings and through submitting quarterly and annual reports. Furthermore, ASLO consults relevant government bodies in designing any program in advance, and share safety and security-related matters with the civilian and security departments for technical advice. ASLO establishes BCM (beneficiary complaint mechanism) profile through direct consultation with direct and indirect beneficiaries. The community has the right to prefer and choose a communication channel that is safe and works for them, considering gender sensitiveness, marginalization, social status and economic status, and political power. ASLO team acknowledges receipt of the complaint immediately to the complainant and starts analyzing the concerns/complaint by a discussion with the relevant technical person and if needed, collect further information from a reliable source and back to them with a possible response. COVERAGE AREAS
ASLO has a regional coverage and is currently present in, it operate in Kabul, Takhar, Badakhshan, Baghlan,Kundz,Badghis, Daykundi,Faryab,Ghazni,Ghor,Helmand,Herat,Jowzjan,Kandahar,Kapisa,Khost, Kunar,Laghman,Logar,Nangarhar,Nimro,Nuristan,Urzugan,Paktia,Paktika,Samangan,Sar-epul,Wardak,Zabul, Parwan, Panjshir, and Mazar-esharif, provinces. THEMATIC AREAS
Afghanistan has been facing significant challenges for four decades such as conflicts, poverty, insecurity, lack of good governance, and a poor education system. Though this country has great achievements after 2001 still there is need for doing much more work in areas related to health, education, economic empowerment, infrastructure, and many more. In 2020 Afghanistan’s economy has weakened as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time where the beginning of peace talks resulted in bringing hope for Afghan people for a better future, it also caused most local and international investments in Afghanistan to be paused. Afghanistan Social and Legal Organization (ASLO) continues to supports the Afghan people through local programs and projects focused on improving quality health services, education, disaster management, wash and sanitation, Humanitarian aid repatriation affairs Emergency response, , Research, Legal Aid and access to justice, Food security, Child protection, agriculture, livestock, urban, and rural community development In light of 2021-2025 Organization’s Strategic Plan, ASLO through its ten thematic areas, had its best level efforts inserted to empower individuals, communities, and grassroots civil society organizations and promote gender equity by improving development indicators pertaining to quality health services, education, disaster management, wash and sanitation, Humanitarian aid repatriation affairs Emergency response, , Research, Legal Aid and access to justice, Food security, Child protection, agriculture, livestock, urban, and rural community development support to individuals and or families in need. ASLO has continuously built its capacity in project management and worked towards improving the quality of services it delivers. ASLO was able to continuously increase the size of its projects, the coverage areas, and the quality and diversity of its services. One of the important achievements of the organization is that ASLO has become a reliable partner to its donors and government in the delivery area of its services. nonetheless, ASLO has developed effective working relationships with line ministries namely, Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock, and Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development and with other relevant Ministries within the government, with the target population because of its progressive work to improve the quality of services, and its cooperation with all stakeholders towards the common good. However, the important part of ASLO’s achievements lies in the changes it has brought to the lives of the population ASLO has worked with. ASLO has valuable achievements in the areas of Agriculture and Livestock, Urban and Rural Community Development, Emergency response and Humanitarian aid Disaster Management and Repatriation Affairs, Education, wash and Nartiaiton and Health & Nutrition. Child Protection:
ASLO administers two policies i.e. The first policy is specifically designed for ASLO programs, staff, and all associated parties/partners to avoid any action or task which hurt or produce or create space for child protection concerns and resulted in violating the rights of children. This policy is put into practice through executing the strategic goal: Child Education and Protection. Under this goal, ASLO is working; under Priority-1 to deliver education services (EiE, CBE, ALE, ECCD), and Priority-2 to ensure protection for the vulnerable children and build Intervention to put in action Child Rights Standards within the development and humanitarian programs for effective child protection, development, and participation. Child Protection Interventions:
In child protection sector, also has implemented more than one project for the protection of child especially girls in the following sectors:
§ Child Rights Protection
§ Community-based child protection mechanism/CBCPMs
§ Elimination of violence against girls
§ Ending Early Marriages
§ Advocacy on Bacha Baazi
§ Setting up and capacities of 44 CSOs task force for ending Bacha Baazi 
§ Legal protection for children
§ Legal literacy for girls
§ Elimination of Traditional Practices
§ Advocacy on child rights with provincial and national authorities
§ Child-Friendly Spaces for children
§ Psychosocial counseling for children
§ Advocacy for Child Act, Anti-trafficking and Bacha Baazi, etc
§ Recreational and Sports for Children
§ IDEAL training for children

AGRICULTURE & LIVESTOCK
As per the organization’s Strategic Plan 2020-2025, the Agriculture sector focuses on capacity building of farmers, development of irrigation systems, the establishment of greenhouses and farmers’ field schools, natural resource management, and distribution of agriculture inputs to target beneficiaries. In 2021, Agriculture and Livestock sector was engaged in the implementation of 5 agriculture projects with the main outcome of provision of agricultural inputs to beneficiaries. As the agriculture issue is dependent on the climate conditions and rates of precipitation in the country, due to high precipitation agricultural productivity was better in comparison to the previous years. Unfortunately, previous severe drought in the country resulted in lower income for rural households, large internal displacement in the country, negative impact on the water resources and livelihoods conditions, and even continued in 2020. Thus, because of the above-mentioned problems, the poverty rate in the country gradually increased from 59-72%. Throughout 2021, Agriculture and Livestock sector will continue its activities according to aslo's Strategic Plan 2021-2025, focusing on providing technical training; agriculture inputs; improving irrigation systems (establishing irrigation systems & rehabilitation and cleaning of irrigation canals); increasing agricultural productivities; natural source management; nutrient diversity; improving livestock management, and linking producers to market. Also, the agriculture sector for supporting farmers, researchers, and solutions of agricultural field problems will start scientific research in the sector covered. Helping farmers online: Through this process, farmers who face various problems such as diseases, pests, nutrient deficiencies, and other problems, they can contact with ASLO-Agriculture specialist via Facebook, and after analyzing problem by Agriculture specialist, they will receive back the recommendation and instruction for solving their problems. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
the sector’s main focus is on access to basic services, awareness-raising, and conflict management, creating sustainable livelihood and income generation means, and peace-building. This sector will continue its work throughout 2021 based on the strategic objectives of the sector. The scope of work for the sector in 2021 will be the formation of institutions including self-help groups, community development councils, cluster community development councils, preparation of community development plans, providing capacity building activities and raising awareness, vocational training, establishing linkages, and facilitating conflict management in targeted provinces. Disaster Management and Repatriation Affairs
Disaster Management and Repatriation Affairs thematic area of the organization has carried an important role in strengthening local communities in terms of resilience and capacity building towards natural and man-made disasters. This thematic area, through various DMRA, focused projects have contributed to solving problems of people affected by natural disasters as well as assisted services for returnees, IDPs, and people adversely affected by the ongoing war in the country. The scope of work for DMRA sector for the year 2021 will be lifesaving emergency assistance to conflict-driven IDPs and natural disaster-affected populations in geographic focus provinces of the country. EDUCATION
The education thematic area of ASLO has the overall responsibility of managing education projects; the sector functions by a team of qualified and experienced education experts, led by an education program manager. The team is well qualified and is an expert in planning, implementing, and following up on education programs. ASLO believes that education is the main factor for the socio-economic development of the country; therefore, education is one of the core strategies in ASLO’s strategic plan. ASLO’s education thematic area has been one of the main contributors of implementing educational national programs in Afghanistan. ASLO was an important partner in implementing the Afghanistan National Education Coalition project, which was an accelerated learning program for boys and girls who were not able to go to schools during the Taliban regime. In total 47,031 students (22,519 boys and 24,512 girls) successfully graduated from the 6th grade, and were eligible to continue their education from 7th grade in formal schools. Building Education Support System for Teachers (BESST) was an important project in ASLO’s educational background. Currently, ASLO is in strategic partnership with Afghanistan National Education Coalition and will contribute the implementation of this initiative in Afghanistan to provide quality, accessible and modern education for Afghan children in Afghanistan. HEALTH & NUTRITION:
ASLO is currently one of the most substantial and valid partners of MoPH , GNI and OCCD for delivering health and nutrition services in Afghanistan. In the year 2021 Health and Nutrition sector will follow the current Strategic Plan 2021-2025 of the organization and will set up all activities accordingly through the implementation of its ongoing projects as well as other relevant projects in the future. AUDITS AND EVALUATIONS
ASLO is accountable to its partners and communities through periodic, annual progress, and financial reports, and regular evaluation of its activities. A computerized Accounting Information System is utilized to facilitate this process. External auditors carry out a general annual audit of ASLO accounts. ASLO also uses an internal audit process for project accounts in accordance with international rules and practices. External evaluators carried out two program evaluations. ASLO is preparing to conduct its annual audit in the year 2021 for the year 2020. The Professional external audit organization, Prime Global Oriental Consultants & Auditors Since 2006-7 https://www.primeglobal.net/firms/oriental-consulting, was contracted to independently carry out this audit. For recruiting annual auditors, ASLO had called for quotations from different worldwide audit companies. The board of directors of ASLO selects the appropriate auditors on basis of their best quotation, organization reputation, and experience. Policies and Procedures
ASLO finds its strength and empowerment in the provision of services to the target communities through the implementation of its policies and procedures set forth for further accountability, transparency, and efficiency of the services being delivered. In order to be on track of the context, these policies and procedures are being revised and updated annually. ASLO currently has the following policies in place and is being regularly implemented within the organization.