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UN Women staff Anum Aftab and Farishta Rahmani visited AGHO in Kabul on February 20, 2024 reviewing the progress of the project “Civil Society Hub for the Women-Led CSOs”. AGHO Rep Syed Reza Mustafavi presented progress on the 2-year initiative launched June 2023 to expand capacities of women-led CSOs countrywide via tailored training and mentoring. Women heads of beneficiary CSOs attended too.10 groups already finished intensive 20-day courses on management, advocacy and organizational development – feedback shows magnified capabilities now to support and advocate Afghan women locally.

Mrs.Aftab expressed excitement seeing early effectiveness and UN Women’s continued commitment to enabling the vital civil society ecosystem for gender equality. With solid traction, she indicated interest in potentially coordinating similar CSO capacity building models in more provinces. In the end she thanked the AGHO team for the effectiveness of the project and wished AGHO best of luck in the future endeavors.