Quarterly Project Progress Report
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| Output 3: As a result of the street vendor mapping exercise earlier this year in Kabul, vendor representatives from 10 major markets have been identified. JHRA will coordinate meetings between these representatives to provide a platform to air vendor grievances and provide input vendor input into the decisions being made at the TCCs. A JHRA-funded report on alternative dispute resolution mechanisms has revitalized the process to develop a national policy on cooperation between the formal and informal justice systems. A MOJ committee has been appointed to revise the draft Jirga-Shura law, and plans have been made for the expert who wrote the report to assist in this. Work on the Jirga-Shura law has included a strong focus on women’s rights in the non-State justice system. Output 4: During this quarter, an annual workplan (AWP) which included a human resources plan, monitoring and evaluation (ME) plans, risk assessment and provincial and gender-based budgets, was developed and approved. Further efforts to leverage donor funding for JHRA continued. Also during this quarter the planning process on internal discussions for JHRA’s successor project was launched. It is expected that the JHRA successor project will be aligned to the UNDP Corporate Strategic Plan 2014-2017 and will address government priorities in the areas of justice and human rights as expressed in the government’s Realizing Self- Reliance paper. A major challenge to implementation this quarter has been the change of government in the country. Alack of leadership has produced delays indecision making injustice sector institutions, but it is expected that the appointment of anew cabinet will speed this up. Meanwhile, the question of whether or not NTAs will be absorbed into the government Tashkeel (organizational structure) has resulted uncertainty as to the sustainability of activities after the end of the project. It is hoped that the NTA review planned with the government will resolved this issue. |