Quarterly Project Progress Report
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| Municipal Governments JHRA continued its work with the municipal governments of Kabul, Herat and Mazar-e-Sharif in this quarter. TCC meetings were conducted on the legal empowerment of street vendors which incorporated municipal officials in each of these cities. A national conference to develop a countrywide policy on street vendors incorporating mayors from 10 provinces is planned. UN JHRA worked with several other agencies of the UN, leveraging synergies between them in order to further its work. JHRA is coordinating with UN Women to ensure that their NGO partners are fully aware of the services available through the LAGF in order to increase the number of cases submitted involving women detainees and women in shelters. Agreement has also been made with the agency to work together on the draft Family Law. HRSU is also working with UN Women to implement the specific recommendations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. As per the recommendations of the midterm evaluation on the LAGF, the project is preparing to assist to the Gender Equality Project of UNDP by providing assistance to their legal help centres. Meanwhile, with the United Nation Assistance Mission to Afghanistan’s (UNAMA) Rule of Law Unit, JHRA continued to implement ROLIS. 29 | Page bV. ISSUES Uncertain financial sustainability Financial constraints continue to pose challenges for project delivery. Earmarking of funds by donors forces the project to base priorities on availability of funds rather than on strategically focus on areas which have shown programmatic success. As was pointed out in the midterm evaluation, less than 50% of the funding originally envisioned for the project has been secured, leaving JHRA unable to accomplish certain objectives envisioned at the onset of the project. One way this shortfall has expressed itself is the fact that the project has only been able to extend National Technical Assistance (NTA) contracts to June. Download 1.17 Mb. Share with your friends:
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