Request For Concern Worldwide- Afghanistan
Request For Financial Literacy Consultant - AWARE Programme
The AWARE programme aims to promote community business development through agriculture in five value chains – Dairy, Fruit, Vegetables, Almonds, and Saffron. The project will be implemented in five provinces of Northern Afghanistan―Badakhshan, Takhar, Kunduz, Jawzjan, and Balkh―over four years by the AWARE Consortium. The AWARE Consortium comprises Concern Worldwide, Save the Children, and New Way Social & Development Organization (NSDO).
The programme takes an Islamic approach to economic development, supporting the household to contribute to poverty reduction in their community by increasing incomes in agriculture. The programme will either increase agricultural income with the support of women who are currently working in agriculture or with women who want to start agricultural activities by joining women’s agricultural and community savings groups. The programme will provide agricultural and financial literacy training and resources to programme participants. The programme will work with both men in their respective roles as heads of the family, and with women given their roles as carers of family livestock, and cultivators and processors of fruit, vegetables, saffron and almonds. In addition, the programme will work with men, boys and religious leaders in their roles as community leaders to support their wives to access markets for the produce, thereby increasing incomes.