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The establishment of a
competent authority that can pardon offenders could achieve
reconstruction and stable peace goals in Afghanistan. This should
contribute to healing the wounds of the two-decade long conflict and
help to create national unity.
The new elected government
should confirm to modern standards and civil society, which should
play a bridging role between the political leadership and the
population. To achieve this goal, institutional development should
make a key policy issue for authorities devoted to the reconstruction
and development of Afghanistan.
Institutional development
involves process, capacities, root causes, self-reliance and
sustainability. Institutional development can start by leading people
to new understanding their own abilities, resources or capacities.
Institutional development will conclude to the self-reliance
governance, which will be based on proper management process/skills of
governmental organizations at central as well as provincial levels.
The Purpose of the project
is to provide Management Skills training to 157 Med- Senior Level
officials of the provincial government in the central region
provinces. The project is funded by the United Nation Assistance
Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA) and in coordination with Afghan
Independent Administrative Reforms and Civil Service Commission.
BRD in collaboration with
Atos Consulting UK Compleated Assessment of the Afghanistan
Stabilization Program (ASP) in October. The goal of the project was to assess whether the ASP as currently designed and
managed is or can achieve its objectives per original project
document.
The purpose of the
assignment was to define internal (managerial) and external
(political, security, economic) obstacles to ASP achievement and to
propose realistic and practicable activities which would enable ASP to
operate as an effective national programme in the contemporary
environment.
The Project was part of the
Governance Frame work and Election Education Frame Work for
Afghanistan where Atos Consulting and BRD has been as service provider
for the work under this agreement by the Department of International
Development (DFID).
3. Information Management
For development of the
information management capacity of the provincial administration of
Kapisa Province, BRD in collaboration with UNAMA, AIMS and PRT started
Information Management Training Project.
45 Provincial officials of Kapisa province will
be trained in basic English and Computer skills and
will further train them in Basic Database , Survey Techniques and GPS
to enable them to collect and analyze data and
develop simple database of Development and Reconstruction activities
in the province.
Duration of the first
phase of the project is 9 months and Second phase of the Project would
be Basic GIS trainings for Plotting Data on Maps.
This will facilitate
better information shearing for improving coordination of
reconstruction activities in the province and prevent duplication and
also enable the provincial government measuring reconstruction and
development progress and knowing the development status in the
province.
4. Provision of IT and
Office Equipment to newly Established Province of Punisher
To enable the Governor
Office of the newly established province of Punjsher Province to
effectively led Coordination of the Development and Reconstruction
Activities in the Province.
A Computer, Photo Copy
Machine, Printer, Generator, Chairs and Tables for Meeting Room and
Chair and Disk for Secretariat , and Flooring is Provided to the
Governor Office.
The Project was Funded By
United Nation Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Completed Activities
Project Management Training: BRD
with collaboration with IMA International and GRM completed the
Project Management Training for the Senior Officials of the Ministry
of Agriculture and Food.' Total 30 senior officials has been trained
in project management skills.
BRD has completed the
review of the Afghan Development Budget review, preparation, review
and approval procedures and the cycle project programs implementation
compared to period of approval of the development budget.
BRD has provided training
to government staff on data collection and analysis and dissemination
and also the the trainings on data entry including basic language
skills.
BRD also provided training
on Assessments using PRA methods for involving community to prioritize
the needs problems of the local community to be solved.
The Justice System in
Afghanistan is a combination of traditional and formal mechanisms.
Both types have developed in accordance with or under the influence of
different cultural forces. Legal traditions and stages in the
country’s evolutions. Indeed, with the traditional mechanisms the same
rules and procedures or not necessarily apply throughout the country
for example the situation in the south and southeast area versus that
in the center, north and west, in additions most formal mechanisms and
procedural and substantive rules have been built on inspiration from
abroad and subjected to exposure to various legal traditions, although
mainly of civil law origin.
It is frequently stated
that the formal justice system has been destroyed by the 23 years
civil unrest and war. This is an imprecise perception/assessment of
the situation.
With the law that protect
basic rights and legal institutions to enforce these laws the people
and in particular the poor, will often have no way to defend
themselves or their interests.
Without the protection of
rights, and a comprehensive framework of laws, no equitable
development is possible, without development, justice and the rule of
law remain but an academic and philosophical concept with little link
to actual justice processes and practices. Not only does the rule of
law protect the poor directly, but its also fosters economic growth,
the surest way to raise living standards,. Building the legal
framework and its implementation system lay the foundations for the
necessary confidence and credibility required for genuine and dynamic
economic development.
In post-conflict societies
such as Afghanistan, re-establishment of the rule of law is a key
prerequisite for the success of the reconstruction process. Rule of
law is the conceptual framework for building governance. Of particular
importance in the development of the rule of law in Afghanistan is the
need to ensure women’s equitable participation in and contribution to
the development of the justice system. Not only do women legal
professionals face career discrimination on the basis of their gender,
but, in many parts of Afghanistan women’s access to legal process is
severely proscribed. Given this specific state of circumstances, BRD
and CIL believe that there is a critical need for training at all
levels of the Afghanistan justice system – the Supreme Court, the
Ministry of Justice, the Attorney General’s Office, the Ministry of
Interior and the police – to orientate these institutions towards the
inclusion of women into the workings of justice in Afghanistan.
"BRD in conjunction with
the Center for International Law, University of Hertfordshire, School
of Law, St Albans, England ("CIL") is planning to offer rule of law
training to those involved with the legal system in Afghanistan with a
particular emphasis on the importance of the independence of the
judiciary and counsel and the elimination of bias against women in the
system.
Short-term: to provide the Afghan
legal community with a basic framework to assist them to meet their
immediate civil society needs;
Long-term: to lay the foundation for
building an independent judiciary and to inculcate in advocates the
importance of judicial concepts such as “fairness”, “due process”,
“right to counsel”, etc.
Target groups: The target group are
those individuals who are involved in the legal system, be they
educators, lawyers, judges, caseworkers and others involved in
administration of justice in Afghanistan. |
1. Civil Service Training
Goals: