About Us

Afghan Women Education Center (AWEC) is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, nonpolitical, nongovernment organization established in 1991 by a group of educated Afghan women in exile. AWEC actively advocates and raises awareness about women's and children's rights in Islam. AWEC's core activities have been to support women, to reduce and eventually eliminate violence, and to increase women's participation in the home and society. AWEC has over 32 years of experience in education, development, empowerment, and in-depth knowledge and understanding of Afghanistan's current socioeconomic, cultural, and political complexities. AWEC is a leading organization in addressing the needs of various communities, acknowledging that communities' needs are diverse and depend on multiple social and economic factors. Since 2004, AWEC has been working with women and communities in general to improve access to education, health, and vocational services. In addition, AWEC has also been working in Health, Livelihood, WASH, Humanitarian, CSO capacity building, Social cohesion and Justice. AWEC has active offices in more than 11 provinces of Afghanistan, such as Kabul, Balkh, Herat, Nangarhar, Kandahar, Badakhshan, Parwan, Paktia, Paktika, Laghman, Nuristan and soon in Bamyan province.

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M&E Officer

M & E something about this position: AWEC Livelihood & Economic development Projects and Achievements: AWEC has a robust portfolio of multi-phase, multi-province programs and proven abilities to administer a project of the proposed scale and scope in Afghanistan. AWEC will soon complete its 30Y anniversary of work with a personal over 300 and an annual programs portfolio of approx. £1.5M. Our organization has proven access to conflict and crisis-affected areas, where we work in close collaboration with communities to ensure acceptance and active participation in programs. Women economic empowerment has been part and parcel of women empowerment portfolio since inception of organization to support refugee women in Pakistan. AWEC has started with skill training that included tailoring and has established a full tailoring curriculum that was adopted by many women center in Pakistan for refugee women. We than moved to production and women business development from skill training that helped with women and street children center sustainability for long years when funding for Afghan refugees was scares and even more limited for women initiatives. In the similar token as we moved inside Afghanistan’ through AWEC establishment inside the country we moved to areas where we were not visible such women in prison. Women in conservative rural communities and women and family of street/working children. In all these programs we added income generation program that include skill training and production and marketing. Today with support of different small funding and donors we AWEC work with women collective within mixed community and segregated groups depending community the context. Support women mobilization in self-help groups, through community and referral center. We work with women to support them in making informed decision on setting priority for their business involving them in assessment, supporting them in building their business plan, matching resources and connection with market. We have partnered with FHI360, EU/CIC women in prison, and other GAC Canada/Oxfam in different initiative that help with economic prosperity of women. AWEC has full-fledged offices in six provinces Kabul, Herat, Balkh, Paktya, Paktika and Nangarhar. also has wider outreach and project activities in Parwan, Badakhshan, Helmand and Kandahar with semi small operating offices on shared based with other women groups and likeminded organizations. Submission Email: recruitment@awec.info

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