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Mobile: +93 (0) 799311619 and +93 (0) 700596059 Email: naimrassa@caf.org.af and naimrassa@googlemail.com.
E-Mail :yasinrahimyar@caf.org.af and yasinrahimyar@gmail.com.
Our mission is to enable the Afghan families to fight against diseases and their causes such as poverty, hunger, unawareness, and injustice.
Involvement of the community and other relevant stakeholders in planning, implementation and evaluation of projects in coordination with the Afghan government, and other agencies interested for improving the quality of life among Afghan families. Scope of Work (Strategic Directions) The three major working directions of organizations are: Health Education & Research Community Development Projects 5.CURRENT POJECTS: 5.1 Implementation of Basic Package Health Services(BPHS) in all districts of Takhar Province with support of USAID/ Partnership Performance based Grant (PPG) program, starting from May 2006 to April 2011, CAF is the leading agency and SHDP is our partner in this project. 5.2 Implementation of Essential Pacakage of Hospital Services( EPHS) in Faizabad Provincial Hospital in Badakhshan Province with support of USAID/PPG program,starting from May 2006 to April 2008 5.3 Implementation of BPHS in four districts of Badakhshan Province (Jurm, Khash, Yamgan and Kuran wa Munjan), with support of World Bank/ PPA program. SHDP is our partner in this project. 5.4 Implementation of BPHS in Kishm, Shahre Buzurg, and Faizabad district of Badakhshan province in partnership with Merlin International being the leading agency,starting from May 2006 to April 2011. 5.5 Implementation of BPHS in Baharak, Wardooj and Shuhada Districts of Badakhshan province in partnership with Aga Khan Foundation,the lead agency, starting from May 2006 to April 2011. 5.6 Implementation of BPHS in Ragh, Khwan, and Yawan Districts of Badakhshan province in partnership with Mediar, starting from May 2006 to April 2011. 5.7 Implementation of BPHS in Kundoz Province from June 21 2007 to April 30, 2009It is in partnership with Merlin and funded by EC. 5.8 Establishment and application of EOC in CHC Jurm of Badakhshan started from ….2007 to 200….and is funded by UNFPA. 5.9 Implementation of micronutrient, Iodin, distribution and awareness project in Takhar and two districts of Badakhshan province,started from November first,2007 and ends in March 31,2008.It is supported by MICRONUTRIENT INITIATIVE ,a Canadian funded project. 6.Completed Projects: 6.1 The first activity of CAF was evaluation of therapeutic feeding units in provincial hospitals and pre-test of nutrition communication materials with the communities in seven provinces (Kabul, Logar, Kandahar, Kapisa, Balkh, Jawzjan, and Faryab) of Afghanistan. Donor of this project was Unicef. MoPH facilitated our evaluation of the provincial hospital. This project was started in Jun 2003 and last for two months. 6.2 In October 2003, CAF started implementation of BPHS in three districts of Takhar Province with financial support of USAID/REACH. 6.3 In December 2005, CAF started implementation of EPHS in Faizabad (centre of Badakhshan Province) provincial hospital with financial support of USAID/REACH. 5.4 Implementation of BPHS in Burka district of Baghlan province from December 2004 to April 2006 Supported by USAID/REACH 6.5 Implementation of BPHS for first time in six Sectors of Kabul City (SC number 4, 9, 10, 11, 15 and 16) from December 2004 to October 2006, supported by USAID/REACH 6.6 Implementation of BPHS in Kishm, Shahre Buzurg, and Faizabad district of Badakhshan province in partnership with Merlin International being the leading agency,starting from December 2004 to April 2006, supported by USAID/REACH 6.7 Implementation of Roll Back Malaria initiative from May 2005 to November 2005,Takhar Province, donor of this project was Unicef-Afghanistan 6.8 Capacity building for Afghan Women from June 2004 to November 2004 Takhar Province funded by Swiss Cooperation and Development Agency (SDC). 6.9 Community Midwifery Education program with Merlin being the leading agency in Takhar Province, from July 2004 to April 2006,supported by USAID/REACH. 6.10 Capacity Building for Poverty Reduction , a community development project with an education and CBO components from January 2006 to January 2007, Khwajaghar District of Takhar Province, supported by Counter part International 6.11 Implementation of Willingness to Pay Survey (study) for Family Planning and primary Health Care Products-Nov2006-May2007.It was a research project and implemented in partnership of CAF-SHDP This WTP Survey was for Health Products in Kabul and Takhar Provinces. This Project was funded by Future Group International under COMPRI-A Project. 6.12 Evaluation of Education Quality Enhancement Grants under EQUIP/Ministry of Education Project-April-Jun2007. It was a “Midterm Evaluation of an Education Project of Ministry of Education” and has been implemented with the partnership of CAF-SHDP in Kabul, Logar, Khost, Paktika, Kandahar, Bamyan, Badakhshan and Kapisa provinces of Afghanistan. This Project was funded by the World Bank. 6.13 Health and Hygiene Promotion Project (HHPP) funded by Shelter for Life (SFL) and implemented by CAF, started from 1st July 2007 and completed by 15th October 2007 in Taloqan of Takahar province.
As one of the Aim of the Organization is to build the capacity of staff in different ways in order to increase quality of out puts ,Due to this aim we are using every opportunity taking in consideration of the work. Al though due to remoteness of the projects some time staff is not able to participate in the training sessions, and the some as we don’t have extra staff to cover those staff which are coming for trainings, obligatory we are not asking staff to participate in training. CAF is transferring all the information’s which is available in soft and hard copies to the health facilities in order to gain their knowledge. During the life of the projects starting from May 2006 training and workshops up to the end of September 2007 ,This information are available in term of trainings: Number of staffs 2264 we don’t have this number of staff some staff during the period received 2 to 3 time trainings Number of sessions 498 Number of topics of trainings 58 The training was conduct by CAF, Merlin , HSSP, MoPH ,BRACK,Tech serve SHDP ,and other stack holders. Average length for the training was almost 3 days.
For those trainings which are conducting by CAF we are considering the principle of the trainings and most of the training is in local language. Every staff which is participating in such trainings then he or she is oblige to transfer new knowledge to other staff like on the job trainings and discussions. As well in each 6 months we have a 6 months review meeting which the top management staff of the projects are participating and reviewing the last 6 months achievements and making the next 6 months plans. The aim of this gathering is to exchange the experience and the lesson learned. Challenges:
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M.Naim.Rassa is a founder of Care of Afghan Families (CAF) who is a qualified Master of Finance with over 10 years experience in financial and resources management. He has worked in the not-for-profit sector as from October 1996 in Afghanistan and during this time got his BBA, ASB & MBA Degrees on Finance and recently as joint ACCA to get a professional accounting Degree in the following years.
Dr Yasin Rahimyar is a founder of Care of Afghan Families (CAF) who is a qualified MD, Graduated from Medical Institute -Ivan Petrovich Pavlov,City Plovdiv, Bulgaria in 1990.He is with over 8 years Curative Clinical experience and over 6 years experience in health program management, especially in BPHS/EPHS componentsins. He has worked in the not-for-profit sector since August 1999 in Afghanistan and during this time got his EMBA on Environmental Management . 
