National Human Rights Program for Afghanistan

The objectives of the project are: (i) Promotion of human rights: To enhance awareness raising initiatives on various human rights topics. (ii) Monitoring of human rights: To assess the human rights situation and highlight the priorities in terms of protection and promotion of human rights. (iii) Protection of human rights: To effectively deal with human rights complaints and protection of everyone’s basic human rights. (iv) Building AIHRC’s capacity: To promote a well- functioning national human rights commission.

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner International or foreign NGO
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    1’800’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    1’756’495
Project phases	Phase 6 01.02.2019 - 31.12.2023   (Completed) Phase 5 08.06.2015 - 31.12.2018   (Completed) Phase 4 01.05.2012 - 30.04.2015   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Human rights Legal and judicial development
  Cross-cutting topics	Human rights The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme. The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes. The project also supports partner organisation improvements
  Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
  Type of collaboration	Bilateral cooperation
  Finance type	Aid grant
  Aid Type	Core contribution
  Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
  Project number	7F02548