The Afghan Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Grant Program is a U.S. Government initiative, launched in 2009 by the U.S. Embassy’s Political Section.  The AWE program provides quick-impact grants to civil society organizations to undertake projects advancing women’s participation in the political sphere.

International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

The Italian Coordination Support for Afghan Women (CISDA) provides support for women's rights and human dignity against all forms of fundamentalism and war.

Italian Cooperation: Development Cooperation comes from the need to grant the respect of human dignity and the economical grow for everybody in our planet, and ensuring global interdependency through the widening of markets.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italian: Ministero degli Affari Esteri or MAE) is the foreign ministry of the government of the Republic of Italy. It is also known as the Farnesina as a metonym from its headquarters, the Palazzo della Farnesina in Rome.

The Institute for Development Cooperation (ICS) is a consortium of local agencies, formed in 1988 under the law 49/87, with the participation of the Province of Alessandria and the towns of Alexandria, Castelnuovo Scrivia, Novi Ligure, and Valencia Ovada.

ICCO is an inter church organisation for development cooperation. We give global financial support and advice to local organisations and networks that work for better access to basic facilities, initiating sustainable economical development and enhancing peace and democracy. We also bring together enterprising people in the Netherlands and in developing countries.

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.

In doing so, UN Member States took an historic step in accelerating the Organization’s goals on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system, which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment:

1- Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW)
2- International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
3- Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI)
4- United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

 

Womankind Worldwide is an international women’s human rights charity working to help women transform their lives in Africa, Asia and Latin America.  We partner with women’s rights organisations who are challenging discrimination and violence.  Womankind delivers the essential support – funding, expertise, contacts and publicity – these women’s organisations need to amplify their voice, increase their impact and bring about greater change.  Last year we worked with 37 women’s organisations in 15 countries.

In Africa, Asia and Latin America, there are groups of women who come together – often at great personal risk – to challenge violence and discrimination. They work within communities to enable the most marginalised women and girls to understand, and have the confidence to claim, their rights and their ability to improve their lives. This work not only takes great courage; it requires resources, too.

Womankind is entirely dedicated to working with these women’s organisations.  Our role is to support them with the funding, contacts and expertise they need to build their impact, their networks and their influence. So that more women will get to hear about and understand their rights, and speak out and join with other to create change. And as momentum grows, women’s voices get heard more widely and even bigger changes can result – within communities and throughout society.

By working with these women’s organisations, we ensure solutions are firmly rooted in local communities, conditions, contexts and needs. The long-term partnerships we develop ensure they are sustainable too.

 

Fayaz Foundation main areas of activity is determined by the executive committee of foundation on the basis of actual assessment of the situation. In the current situation the foundation concentrates its efforts on: women and child rights, freedom of expression and transitional justice in Afghanistan.

We, the founders of Fayaz Foundation, acknowledge our duty and responsibility by establishing this organization as a focal point for Afghan human rights activists working for the people of Afghanistan. Our foundation will rely on ordinary Afghans, advocate their rights, freedoms and obligations, will attach as much importance to their social and economic rights as to their political and civil ones, and will not acquiesce to political correctness and censorship.