Support to UNHCR Women's Rights Activities in Afghanistan



Contract partner: UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Afghanistan Funding amount: € 280.000,00 Project start: 01.12.2006 End: 31.12.2007

Short Description:

Overall goal


Over the last five years, the UNHCR in Afghanistan has built effective partnerships with local organisations, such as the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC). In 2007, the UNHCR will continue to enhance the capacity of the AIHRC to monitor, document and address human rights violations as well as obstacles to safe and dignified return and reintegration of Afghan refugees and IDP's. Against this backdrop, UNHCR offices country-wide will continue to work with the AIHRC to enhance human rights field monitoring (HRFM) and implement an intervention strategy, which was developed and jointly revised by UNHCR and its partners in 2005 and 2006.


The AIHRC's activities, which will be supported through this project, are as follows:


(1) Participation of well-trained women staff in the direct implementation of activities;

(2) Monitoring of the situation of women in Afghanistan;

(3) Monitoring of rights particularly relevant to women in Afghanistan;

(4) Identification and reporting of women's rights violations in Afghanistan;

(5) Specific interventions to address women's rights violations, and

(6) Production of reports to advocate vis-à-vis the government and the international community for a reinforced commitment to the realization of the rights of Afghan women.


By capacitating and enabling the AIHRC to perform these tasks in a qualitative manner and in cooperation with the International Community, the Austrian contribution will support the basic UNHCR objective to ensure that civil, social and economic rights of Afghan returnees and IDP's are secured and that opportunities for self-reliance with particular attention to the rights of women and children are maximised.

project number 2173-03/2006
source of funding OEZA
sector Staatsführung & Zivilgesellschaft, allgemein
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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