Peace Building
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Local Governance for Self-Reliant Community Change
The Challenges to Peacebuilding: In the view of many Afghans, the vast majority of international assistance has been inefficient, over-priced, externally-driven, and not locally accountable. People perceive that only foreign contractors are doing well by the current system. When aid does arrive, many fear a threat to their culture.
Women Improving Health
The Need: Death during childbirth is an every day occurrence in
Afghanistan, which has among the highest rates of maternal and child
mortality in the world. Many deaths can be prevented by changes in
lifestyle and basic health care in the home. To change health
behaviors and provide services at the village level, the Afghanistan
Ministry of Health works to extend a Basic Package of Health Services
(BPHS). One strategy is to train local people as Community Health
Worker (CHWs).
Mosque-based Literacy Classes for Women
An estimated 79% of Afghan women and girls cannot read and write. For the Hazara ethnic communities in the central highlands, where the education of girls was once common before the Taliban, literacy for women was an early priority. At the first community meeting organized by Future Generations in Jaghori District of Ghazni Province, the first priority was education for women.
