CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME In order to bring about positive sustainable changes in the lives of people and their organisations, Oxfam Afghanistan will continue with capacity building interventions for its own staff, partner organizations, and other civil society/grassroots organizations (working within our geographical programme area). This is consistent with Oxfam Afghanistan#s strategic plan and Oxfam Global-CapacityBuilding Policy emphasising our continued commitment to work with and through partnerships. Oxfam has developed aconcept for a period of one year in order to roll out its capacity building mandate.

Oxfam pursues its vision through multiple sets of action agenda.Firstly, direct partnership with LNGOs and vulnerable communities for facilitating their local initiatives. Secondly, contribute towards reducing poverty and social disparities, ensuring basic services, and institution building through increasing participation inlocal governance and protecting environment. Another action agenda is to influence policy processes by promoting articulation of the perspectives of the poor and disadvantaged. This may be achieved by facilitating alliance/networks among various civil society actors.
Supporting and nurturing these agenda, Oxfam#s Programme along with relevant support functions will carry forward Oxfam#s agenda for capacity building with a view to promote self-identity, self-reliance and self-growth of marginalized communities. Oxfam seeksto strengthen and widen the process of learning across a variety of relevant themes and contexts of different stakeholders in social development at different levels. It will mainly focus on the processes of transfer and exchange of knowledge and experiences, as well as the provision of technical expertise.

MISSION:
Capacity Building Programme#s mission is to contribute to sustainable changes, poverty reduction in Afghanistan by strengthening the capacity of Oxfam and other citizen organizations. We will work to accomplish this mission through following: human resource development, institutional strengthening, organizational development, creating an enabling environment through discussion, discourse and publications.

AIM of the PROGRAMME:
Help reduce poverty by supporting Civil Society Organizations, primarily serving rural constituencies, through building managerial and technical competence so that they can realise their potential of empowering people.

MODUS OPERANDI:
# human resource development, by providing staff training and supporting personnel policy;
# organizational development by improving internal processes and structures, financial durability and the management culture within partner organizations improve their management;
# institutional strengthening by strengthening the capacities of partner organizations and networks in areas such as advocacy, institutional learning, and the formations of strategic alliances;
# building social partnerships by building bridges between the government, and NGOs;
# advocacy to create and flourish the culture of discourse, debate and critical analysis of local and national issues; also by assisting NGOs in organizing national debate on key issues or getting articles in Oxfam#s newsletter for discussion and debate;
# association-building and network development by facilitating dialogue and networking among NGOs and NGO support groups through Discussion Fora and by being members to different consortiums and forums;
# image promotion for Oxfam by working with NGOs to develop media outreach campaigns and providing training in developing public service messages;
# encourage cooperation and collaboration between grassroots organizations and intermediaries by facilitating networking and exploring opportunities for learning and sharing of ideas through forums such as forums on Issues on Social Development in Afghanistan;
# help establish a resource base for learning in the area of livelihood food security, local self governance and civil society building.
The specific programme purpose is to strengthen Afghanistani civilsociety in addressing their concerns through inclusive interventions and strategies so that they are enabled to provide services and are able to defend the interests of their members and constituencies. Additionally, civil society is being empowered to promote the improvement and maintenance of good governance as well as peace in the country and establish working relations with both state structures and the private sector.

The programme is initially formulated as a one-year programme with the broad objectives of raising awareness on the roles and responsibilities of civil society, through public awareness and advocacy, strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations to contribute to peace, development and human rights and strengthening linkages within civil society and with other actors including local authorities and the international community via trainings and publications. This programme reflects Afghanistan#s view that civil society and civic organization is best placed to bring about lasting change.

Expected Outcomes:

# Oxfam#s capacity building work willbe able to address the training needs of staff and partners.
# Oxfam CB work will be able to provide a platform to the different provincial, national and international organizations and government department for the exchange of information and experiences.
# Oxfam will be able to increase its out-reach/visibility to civil society organizations and government department and disseminate and collect updated information regarding its main areas of work.