Under USAID –Ram up East  Grant Program for supporting to the Municipalities in Afghanistan, BRD started the Gender and Governance Program, under the program 12 fellow will be provided with the on the job training and mentorship, upon the completion of the fellow ship the fellows will be able to get job with the municipalities or other organizations.900 male and female from the local government, civil society, universities will be provided with the training sessions on Gender and Governance, Leadership, conflict management and resolution.

Under BRD Project; capacity building of Afghan women lead civil society organizations in Advocacy and Monitoring of women rights supported by the U.S Embassy Afghan Women Empowerment (AWE) grant program, the first round training on Advancing AfghanWomen Advocacy and Leadership Skills, for 22 women leaders from the women led civil society organization of Kapisa and Panjsher provinces from 21-25 May 2011 completed.The second round of the training will target 23 women leaders from women lead civil society organization from Kabul, Parwan and Wardak Provinces will be organized in the second week of June 2011.

BRD Lunched new project for Sensitization and capacity building of Civil Society on anti-corruption and social auditing in Afghanistan, supported under the National Endowment for Democracy 2011 Grant Program.The project’s overall objective is to sensitize and build the capacity of Afghan CSOs for provision of social audit and engage them in promotion of transparency and combating corruption in the target provinces in Afghanistan.