Director: Mariam Ahmady
Head of Program: Ramin Khanzahdah
Email: wise.organization@gmail.com / ramin@wise-af.com
Website: http://wise-af.com/
Address: Khaja Abdullah Ansari Rd, Next to JoyeInjil, Herat, Afghanistan
Contact No: Herat Office 0093 795 484 746 / 0093798404545
Offices WISE Organization having two Offices, Herat and Badghis _Qala_e_Now, and one Service Delivery Center in Herat Kadestan village.
About Women Integrity for Society Empowerment Organization
The WISE organization has its policies and procedures for implementation of program and projects. The core management team does the program activities of the WISE organization. WISE has advisory board committee consist of five members which give direction to the organization’s operation and evaluate its success and challenges. WISE has its M&E, Finance, Admin, HR and Procurement departments to manage project’s implementation in its expected manner and be timely responsive to donors’ expectation and requirement. The WISE organization has maintained good relationships with its stakeholders especially government departments which gives credit and value to the organization’s operations.
WISE is one of the most committed organizations in Herat to helping families in poor communities to improve their lives and achieve lasting victories over poverty, education, economic. WISE got its formal registration certificate from the Ministry of Economy with license number 2641 on May 16, 2012.
All women and men who were gathered as a committed team confirmed higher education were dream of us where it had not come true, development country was thought of us where it had not come reality, despite anything is possible in the small global village that called world. Finally reached up to this result that change never comes accurate unless we really don’t gather together, unless we don’t read our mind, unless we don’t understand ourselves, unless we really like or love ourselves and each other, unless we accept ourselves and each other, and think about our future and development Afghanistan.
WISE Mandate.
Women Integrity for Society Empowerment Organization (WISE) is an active national organization operating in the Herat western region of Afghanistan with a special focus on women’s rights and women empowerment. Equipped with experienced and educated staff and works in several overarching areas, entrepreneurship, human capital, peace education with a specific emphasis on youth empowerment, promoting human rights, child protection, gender equality, gender-based violence, policy advocacy, fight against corruption, civic education and electoral process to support national efforts to enhance political dialogue.
Job creation
WISE has designed the job creation component to support its mandate and builds females’ work capacity enhancement particularly fresh graduates who don’t have any work experience to promote their job stabilization and increased access to work contributes to community wellbeing.
Capacity Building
The WISE Capacity Building program is designed to support organization with the aims to strengthen the human resources through the conduction of highly specialized training program to team members both theoretical and practical to develop their skills for performing and completing their assigned tasks with the given time and learn how to take initiatives to respond to the emerging the project’s activities and needs of the communities the organization serve.
Advocacy
One of the core components of an organization is advocacy through performing in-depth research government policies and create a debate between advocator and authorities to face to face talk on challenges and policies and practices opportunities for women and advance women right and peace through the improvement of whole gender quality to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Our Vision
Equality for every female empowered to reach their fullest potential.
Our Mission
To empower women to enhance advocacy skills and fight for gender equality and women rights.
Our General Goal
Ending discrimination based on gender and equal empowerment to have a sustainable and healthy life.
Our Values
- We acknowledge and honor the fundamental value and dignity of all individuals.
- We hope for a society with integrity.
- Committed for equal opportunity
- Accountable and transparent
- Build respect, dignity, fairness
Competitive Advantage Statement
WISE Organization through its extensive organizational experience has demonstrated the transparent, accountable, timely and effective implementation of all its programs utilizing community ownership and participating mechanisms.
The Goal of WISE GROUP
WISE group of women help women and people to make them aware of their rights and issues affecting women and they put hand, feet, and vices to the task of making a difference in our poor country of Afghanistan.
WISE Objectives
- To make Afghan women aware and develop their knowledge about their fundamental rights and Promote individual and institutional best practices and integrity in their day-to-day performance through education.
- Advocate for positive changes from corruption in society and to create the best coordination among other association to work together, coordinate our activities with one another to launch our programs at provincial and districts level.
- Continue to support family planning services and advocacy for universal access to these services, including in humanitarian responses.
- Promote women’s advancement in the private sector through existing opportunities and creation of innovation to improve business productivity and income.
- Treat all women and men fairly at work-respect and support human rights and ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers.
- To protect child from violence, exploitation, abuse, and advocate for their right.
- Promoting women`s political participation through civic education
- Supporting the media for access to information
- Conducting qualitative and quantitative research
Way Organization Has Groups
WISE Organization wants to unite women so that we can change the conditions of other women’s lives. The group members develop intimacy and grow together in their own understanding of the love and mercy of God as they seek to see women’s lives transformed in a better way. WISE group of women is existed to provided women with an opportunity to discover ways to meet needs of women in all areas that this org works and to do something for women like to change their lives and equipment with education, health, job opportunities.
What WISE Groups Do
The WISE group members, conducting different workshops for the time each week, in order to, first, develop their own capacities, and then focus on the issues affecting women, respond and work on the issue as much as they can with the aim of serving and helping them, especially those who are profoundly unreached.
Advisory Board
WISE board of directors is the organization is governing body, elected by the members at the first meeting in order to move systematic from the beginning.
All members are responsible for gaining a basic understanding and initiating action in support of WISE’s mission, goals and programs. This includes assistance in expanding WISE’s outreach and increasing its visibility and donor support. All board members are volunteers and serve without compensation.
Our Executive Team
The WISE organization has its policies and procedures for implementation of program and projects. The core management team does the program activities of the WISE organization. WISE has advisory board committee consist of five members which give direction to the organization’s operation and evaluate its success and challenges. WISE has its M&E, Finance, Admin, HR and Procurement departments to manage project’s implementation in its expected manner and be timely responsive to donors’ expectation and requirement. The WISE organization has maintained good relationships with its stakeholders especially government departments which gives credit and value to the organization’s operations.
What WISE Does
WISE tackles underlying causes of poverty, education, economy development so that people can become self-sufficient. Recognizing women and children suffrage disproportionately from poverty and reason behind, WISE places special emphasis on working with women to create permanent social change. Women are at the heart of WISE community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent being endangered, increase access to justice, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources.
- Justice
The WISE vision is to transform how societies respond to crime and conflict from what is today into something works better for victims, offenders, and communities. WISE –Org hopes by the implementation of a successful project and through strategies for accomplishing this goal include providing for party-to-party encounters, providing for encounters between the parties with the assistance of a facilitator and when needed, providing outside authorities to decide on how restoration and resolution can best be sought.
- Education
WISE is dedicated to securing basic education for all. Experience shows that learning attacks poverty at its roots. Educated people can make thoughtful and informed decisions that will positively affect their lives, their families, their communities and their world. Mothers are more likely to have healthier children and higher incomes. Today we work alongside communities, governments and partner organizations at many levels to address all aspects of basic education. Our inclusive approaches include training teachers and other school personnel to improve the quality of education; linking education programs to interventions in health, nutrition and livelihoods to better address reasons why children are out of school; involving communities in assessing and overcoming their unique barriers to learning; and conducting broad campaigns that promote the right to education for all people.
3) Initiatives
WISE crosscutting initiatives span across the breadth of our program sectors to tackle the underlying causes of hunger and place special emphasis on working with women and girls to create lasting social change. For example, the support for social change Initiative uses the convening power of support of as a vehicle to minimize the effects of poverty on youth while working to advance gender equality, develop life skills, promote health education, provide psychosocial support and create income-generating activities.
- Entrepreneurship
WISE provides capacity building and developing entrepreneurial Themes. Using an applicator structure and paves the way for women and girls to recognize and achieve their needs effectively, and promote their working capacity. From the very beginning, the WISE is being offered such capacity building as part of its core values and within the framework of the Applicable Laws of Afghanistan. This component assists impoverished families by supporting moneymaking activities through their social enterprises. Wise initiates community savings-and-loan programs and provides technical training to help people begin or expand small businesses that will increase family income.
- Research
The main goal of this component is to build and strengthen the research for extension of the overall goal of WISE to be aligned with Afghanistan’s main challenge areas related to the mandate of foundation and its strategic plan. The research would be consisted capacity building, educational program, human rights, entrepreneurship, family planning that will be applied in the most efficiency and profitability in center of cities, rural communities, program to advance fundamental research and coordinate opportunities to build on these discoveries at support the foundation aim in targeted high-priority areas.
- Promoting Human Rights
Human right is one of the most areas of the WISE focus for technical assistance help to improve the recognition of the fundamental role of women. Particularly to reduce poverty, strengthening the protection of women and measures to address violence against women and gender discrimination in conflict and post-conflict situations, reform efforts to improve and promote gender-sensitive policies with emphasis on public policies and the greater involvement of women in decision-making processes. Educating women on basic rights and legal literacy, such as public access to justice and advocacy support, creating a community of practice groups to discuss, clarify and strategic on the key issues and options relating to the gender, human rights.
- Child protection
Protection of the child is in the prior area of WISE mandate and aim to effectively work on this intervention to build on the strengths of a child and their caregiver, as well as taking into consideration the ways threats and opportunities vary according to demographics, social, cultural, and environmental contexts.
- Building Advocacy
One of the components that WISE Organization intensively pay attention is advocacy as the mission of NGO to empower women for dynamic change from all aspects and always look out for avenues of advocacy to enable women to participate. Enrich the atmosphere for women in the social decision-makings and develop a fostered development in such a way that empowers them to become productive members of society and entrepreneurs for strengthening and supporting government policies that promote the growth of women at all levels. Enhance the active participation of women, both national and global economies, working to improve the conditions of those in need of help.
This peer-to-peer exchange with donor funding to increase mutual understanding necessary for comprehending the real needs of Afghanistan population. Fostering relations with government bodies is aimed through positive advocacy methods at social level and human growth that is respectful to environmental and cultural variety and capable of protecting common assists to ensure that greater peace and prosperity is maintained in all provinces equally.
- Fight against corruption
Afghanistan weak governance is characterized by lack of transparency, poor public accountability mechanism, and limited society participation. The impact of weak governance is the high rate of corruption, poverty, poor public service delivery, lack of distrust between society and the government and this has been caused by high rate corruption, and corruption is the greatest obstacle to global economic and social development. Economically, corruption has been depleted wealth in the country, increased inequality, hindered for entrepreneurship and acted as an investment barrier. Therefore, WISE is working in this area in order to fight against corruption to protect the society from further destroy public order and erode societal trust in society’s and aim to strengthen voice and engagement of youth, civil society activists, civil society organization, mass-journalist, community leaders in anti-corruption actions and initiatives in Herat- West Region of Afghanistan.
- Women’s Access to Information
Access to information is a fundamental right enshrined in a democratic country and a declaration of human rights, and critical for the exercise of basic socio-economic and political rights. Often in our societies, it is the most vulnerable and marginalized populations who suffer the greatest due to limited access to information, and this is particularly true for women. As various tools are applied to address the web of adversities facing women — poverty, illiteracy, violence, and inadequate opportunities for quality participation — the insufficient focus has been paid to the power that information can play in confronting these challenges. Therefore, WISE committed to empowers women to make decisions that are more effective. (F.g. with relation to education, crop production, land ownership, and health care. enables women to understand and exercise their full range of rights; helps women to participate more fully in public life; bridges gender gaps and helps to shift power in decision-making processes; and can link women with the needed resources for achieving economic empowerment. Ultimately, through exercising their right to information, women will be able to more fully enjoy their socio-economic rights in meaningful and transformative ways.
- Fighting Violence against Women
WISE aims to address issues of marginalization, gender discrimination and violation of human rights among rural and indigenous women, using the government’s obligation to implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) as a basis for these women to demand accountability of the government to realize their human rights. The component on rural and indigenous women will conduct. 1) baseline research and bench-marking of CEDAW implementation as it relates to rural and indigenous women, 2) advocacy for adoption of gender-responsive policies, programs, structures and other measures for rural and indigenous women, and 3) capacity-building of rural and indigenous women’s groups and other stakeholders in the fulfillment of women’s human rights.
- Women’s Political Participation
WISE aims to work on women’s political participation for post-election intergenerational dialogues to promote women’s political participation and to increased involvement in governance and democratic processes by women in a key position and decision-making process. WISE advocates and maintain dialogue opportunities on new strategies for domesticating affirmative action and implement a new work plan. In addition, it involves community-based women’s organizations to mobilize women across generations to join political parties and contest elections in states where there has been some progress. In the longer term, WISE wishes to contribute to increasing the proportion of women elected to political positions.
- Gender Equality
Women’s participation in decision-making, leadership, entrepreneurial, access to rights is important as a right in itself. Priorities and strengths resulting from their life experiences, which are often different from men’s. Private sector businesses that have female leaders tend to deliver stronger financial performance. In all development programming, we will promote women’s decision-making, whether by seeking to ensure equal participation by women and men on community committees supporting our programs. WISE will support women’s enterprise, women-led organizations, networks and coalitions wherever possible, particularly those giving a voice to marginalized groups such as women with disabilities, indigenous women or young women and girls. It is important that we ensure women participate, recognizing women can be powerful agents for change. Building gender equality into reconstruction efforts can help to ensure peace that is more lasting.
14) Access to Healthcare for Girls and Women
WISE is emphasizing on health care education through different approaches to support for most vulnerable children and females living in a risky environment in the West region to respond in the family planning and standard operating procedures, providing an opportunity for important advocacy work or technical assistance. WISE support will be handled in consultation with of Ministry of Health team as appropriate.
- Peacebuilding and conflict Resolution
WISE launching peacebuilding & conflict resolution programs for youths in different communities to bring people together to build communities coexistence in a range of participative for social change.
- Agriculture and fruit process
WISE is work in the area of agricultural programs for formers to strengths the community livelihood sustainability based on the standard hence in cultivating fruits, and marketing processes to create vast opportunities for women and men to make a profit to end hunger and the alleviation of poverty.
- Media & Communication
WISE with the partnership of the Female Journalist Association conduct professional capacity enhancement programs for female journalists to help faster foundations for enhanced their skills on how to provide accurate reporting and enabling the environment for them to have more powerful journalists to overcome any complex challenges report news for the audience.
- Vocational training program
WISE launch vocational training programs for females and males to enhance their manpower skills and provision of technical knowledge to create livelihood opportunities for them to establish their social enterprise and economic development for their self-reliance economically.
- Cultural Activities
WISE Launches cultural activities to help empower others to live with greater independence and overcome their obstacles through the conduction of cultural exhibitions.
Areas of working
- Justice
- Education
- Initiatives
- Entrepreneurship
- Research
- Promoting Human Rights
- Child protection
- Building Advocacy
- Fight against corruption
- Women’s Access to Information
- Fighting Violence against Women
- Women’s Political Participation
- Gender Equality
- Access to Healthcare for Girls and Women
- Peacebuilding and conflict Resolution
- Agriculture and fruit process
- Media & Communication
- Vocational training program
- Cultural Activities
Policies and procedures
The WISE organization has its policies and procedures for the implementation of programs and projects. The core management team does the program activities of the WISE organization. WISE has an advisory board committee consists of seven members that give direction to the organization’s operation and evaluate its success and challenges. WISE has the most necessary policies, such as Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Procurement Policy, M&E Policy, Anti-Corruption Policy, security & safety policy, partnership policy, child protection policy, gender policy, training policy inclusion of office policy and procedures, organization succession plan, strategy plan, & psychosocial Manuel. These policies are being updated annually to enable the organization to meet the donor requirement and community needs and organization and implement its project in its expected manner and be timely responsive to donors’ expectations and requirements. The WISE organization has maintained good relationships with its stakeholders especially government departments which gives credit and value to the organization’s operations.
WISE Organization has the following Policies and Procedures.
- Advisory Board Policy
- Human Resource Management Policy
- Gender Policy
- Office Policy and Procedure
- Security Policy
- Financial Management Policy
- Procurement Policy
- Training Policy
- M&E Policy
- Child Protection Policy
- Partnership for the goal policy
- Anti-corruption Policy
- Organization Strategy Plan
- Organization Succession Plan
- Training Manual
- Psychosocial Manual
| List past three year’s relevant experience in women’s rights and empowerment (Use additional pages if required.) | ||||||
| Project Title |
Donor |
Provinces/Districts |
Duration of Project | Budget | Purpose/Objectives of Project | |
| From | To | |||||
| Social reintegration for returnees and internally displaced persons-Economic prospects for host communities in West Afghanistan. | terre des hommes German e.V. German | Herat /Badghis | October 15, 2019 | October 30, 2014 | 521,092.92 Euro | Contributing to the harmonious and peaceful coexistence of returnees, internally displaced persons and host communities in four Afghan provinces (Herat, Farah, Badghis and Ghor) |
| Strengthening and empower civil society, mass media, youths to promote accountability and hold the government more accountable to the public and actively engaged citizens exercising fight against corruption for positive change in service delivery | USAID-MSI-AMANT Project | Herat | February 10, 2019 | February 09, 2020 | USD $51,479.00 | The project aim to contribute towards effective implementation of anti-corruption initiatives, and in this way improve democratic governance in Herat province. Through signing Memorandum of Cooperation with “Directorate of General Attorney” for ant-corruption. |
| Search for government champion Strategy | USAID Promote: Women in Government project | Herat-with three sectors- (MoWA), (MoLSAMD) Martyrs and Disabled | March 23, 2018 to | October 29, 2018 | Joint-with Equality for Peace & Democracy-WISE worked as volunteer for Herat | Champion Strategy provides a long-term plan to identify and empower champions in order to accelerate societal and institutional acceptance of the idea that women can and should contribute to the public sector. |
| Policy Advocacy for Women’s Access to Economic Empowerment | USAID Promote: Musharikat | Herat/Injil & Guzara | May 01, 2018 | November 30, 2018 | $23,934.00 | The overall goal was to strengthen and support advocacy efforts for economic, social, and cultural policies that positively affect the economic empowerment of women. |
| Mobilization of Civil Society and Media to Address Community Needs | Counterpart
International USAID with partnership of WASSA |
Six District of Herat Province | May 1, 2013 | October 31,
2013 |
$29,480.00 | To enhance the awareness of local
community on human rights and strengthen their fights on human rights through civil society and media campaigns in the centre of the city and five districts of Herat |
| To Contribute in Improving Economic and Social Empowerment of Women & Youth | Counterpart
International USAID with partnership of WASSA |
Center of Herat province | January 01, 2013 | April 30, 2013 | $11,276.00 | To contribute to the promotion of business for 30 women through establishing a network, building their capacity in the area of business, do marketing for their products and provide technical assistance for them during the life of project |
| Preventing Conflict into Peace Resolution | ISD PRT Spain
|
Badghis Province | November 10, 2011 to | January 09, 2012 | $ 27,580.00 | Enhancing the technical capacity of communities on peace-building efforts in areas of negotiation and dialogues for reconciliation |