What We Do

Education 

ACRRO see education as a key pillar to development. We focus on primary education especially on community based education. This increases access to children (boys and girls) in remote villages where formal schools do not function due to insecurity. Community based education also promotes/facilitate girls’ access to education who face impediments due to harmful traditional practices such as gender based segregation. Similarly, it facilitates the transfer of younger children to formal school when they are able to travel longer distance after completion of grade 6. This will also include teacher training, and creating safe environment and educational facilities for working and street children. 

ACRRO offers adult learning and training in these core and other related areas at different levels and in different modes: 

Popular education tours: Participatory and interactive community dialogue, theatre and short documentaries)

Community-based or Organization-based participatory workshops based on units of Certificate Programs for Community-Based Service Providers (through ACRRO Programs) 

In the future it is intended that adult learning facilities built into to our proposed Community Tele-center, will be a venue for computer-based self-study and research in these areas, as well as for night classes bringing public servants, local leaders, educators and community activists together for training that will stimulate lively discussion, debate and learning circles, ACRRO develops full training packages, usually in association with International NGOs. ACRRO's staff have the capacity to write curriculum, test it, refine it and design and publish training manuals and kits. We facilitate national and subnational workshops in areas like Conflict Prevention, Citizen’s Education, gender-based violence and popular and applied training in ICT applications for development. 

ACRRO can deliver training in four languages: Pashto, Dari, Urdu and English 

Child Protection 

Every child has the capabilities to be a leader in a specific area to lead their community in the future. ACRRO works with communities to protect children by ensuring communities understand and take appropriate measures to ensure children’s right to protection and promote violence-free communities. In addition, ACRRO ensures that families understand the causes and consequences of violence against children, adopt positive parenting practices and protect their children, including emergency circumstances. ACRRO also works with children so they have the ability to protect themselves, and can advocate for and participate in child protection initiatives. Furthermore, ACRRO is establishing a national and district level child protection program that shall include legislation, policies, structures and budgets and ensuring local government institutions have the ability to prevent and respond to violence against children. In this regard, ACRRO prepares concepts that makes sure to work alongside the government in protecting children. ACRRO believes in “Count Every Child” notion. Thus, ACRRO is preparing a program that shall come under “ensuring every child has their right to the very basic right which is the right to a birth certificate. 

Capacity Building

Generally ACRRO contribute to increase in the capacity/raising awareness of local communities, government employees, its own personnel, NGO workers, private sectors, community based organizations (CBOs), men, women and children in areas of overall management, effective implementation of development and humanitarian programs, mobilizing communities through creation of community councils, management of human resources, advocacy and democratization of human relationships, good governance, gender equity in programs, disaster/emergency response/management, inclusion of marginalized groups into mainstream development, availing information, conducting surveys/researches, equal access to resources, networking, enhance participation, social and environmental protection and quality monitoring and evaluation. 

Sanitation & Hygiene 

Providing of drinking water with hand pumps for urban and rural areas deprived of safe drinking water making them prone to water borne diseases especially women and children. This will be in connection to health education with focus to children and women on personal hygiene. Health education is the back bone of having healthy and physically fit people in society. The current ACRRO areas of work fully support Afghanistan National Development Strategy ANDS at a regional level. 

Social & Environmental Protection 

ACRRO contributes to both social and environmental protection that include protection of IDPs, returnees and other marginalized groups by implementing projects focusing on IDPs, returnees, disabled people, minorities, women and children and other under privileged individuals. Environment needs urgent attention due to continued drought and deforestation, increase in unplanned population and lack of community awareness on environment particularly water resources management and rehabilitation of forests, orchards and replantation of trees.