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INTRODUCTION
Care of Afghan Families (CAF) is a
non-governmental, non-political, not for profit and independent
organization.
BACKGROUND
The organization has been established in Kabul
and registered in Ministry of Planning of Islamic Transitional
Government of Afghanistan in January 1, 2003 and the Registration is
No 946. CAF is also reregistered with the Ministry Of Economy based
on the requirement of the government and the registration number 68
dated September 29, 2005.
Care of Afghan Families (CAF) is an initiation
of senior Afghan staff from other international organizations that
have many years of working experience in Afghanistan.
The aim of founders of CAF was to transfer the
experiences and expertise from several international organizations
to an Afghan organization in order to ensure the sustainability of
efforts as well as provide opportunities for Afghans to use their
full potentials in humanitarian and development activities.
Currently, CAF has total of 1211 full time
paid staff, 1500 Community Health Workers (volunteer), 826 Health
Posts, 1335 Health post level shora, 113 health facility health
shora. CAF is running 82 health facilities, which includes 1
provincial hospital, 6 District Hospitals, 16 CHCs, 2 CHC+, 45 BHCs,
10 sub-centers, 2 mobile teams in Takhar, Badakhshan, Faryab, and
Kunduz provinces of Afghanistan.
CORE VALUE
1-
Equity
2-
Professionalism
3-
Transparency and accountability
4-
integrity
5-
Diversity
6-
Team Work
7-
Creativity & innovation
8-
Respect
MISSION STATEMENT
Enable the families to fight against diseases and its causes -
poverty, unawareness and injustice.
The word (Disease) in the above statement means all kinds of
individual and social problems that the families are faced with and
prevent them from being in healthy status – to develop their full
potentials.
OUR VISION
CAF is well known as the first reliable development partner of
the community, among the society, the government and other
development partners.
STRATEGIC DIRECTION
During the
strategic planning exercise, while the community representatives
participated actively, it was realized that, the organization work
in three major directions in an integrated approach and make sure
that all major cross-cutting concerns of the community has been
addressed in the planning, implementation and evaluation stages of
the projects. The three major working directions of the organization
are:
I.
Health,
II.
Education and Research,
III.
Community Development.
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Grassroots Initiatives to Address Under nutrition in South
Asia
Dhaka,
August 5, 2009 ─ Twenty-one civil society organizations from
across South Asia won grants today from a $840,000 award
pool funded by the South Asia Region Development Marketplace
(DM). The winners received up to $40,000 each to implement
innovative ideas on how to improve nutrition in their
respective countries. Care of Afghan Families (CAF), from
Afghanistan was one of the winners.
Innovative ideas, such as a proposal from Care of Afghan
Families called Baby Friendly Village, to improve the
nutrition status of young children through focus not just on
their mothers, but also on other family and village members
was one of the winners.
“This
award means the recognition of innovative ideas for tackling
malnutrition programs. A regional platform like the DM is
helping NGOs bring out innovative ideas, share experiences
and learn from each other,” said Bashir Ahmad Hamid,
Organizational Development Director of CAF.
For more information about the South Asia development
Marketplace, visit:
www.worldbank.org/
nutritiondm2009
Capacity Development Program (CDP)
Capacity
building is one of the important objectives of CAF.
Currently CAF with financial support of USAID/CDP started to
conduct 7 modules of training to Afghan NGOs in Kabul from
July 2009. The modules are 1. Project Management 2.
Financial Management 3. Strategic Planning 4. Gender 5.
Human Resource Management 6. Fund Raising 7. Organization
Development. Several participants from more than 23
NGOs attended the training modules.
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