Welcome to ROW.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

ROW is a woman local non-government organization established in 2007, since its establishment it has been serving Afghan women through a variety of projects targeting the most vulnerable women in need of support. The projects targeting women through ROW Khost office has included: income generation and marketing, education especially non formal education (adult literacy), food proceeding projects (nutrition and health education), capacity building and vocational training rights awareness and civic education. The ROW began in 2007 as non governmental organization. Today the Organization provides supports and services to vulnerable women, widows and other poor women with disabilities and their families.

 
Our vision:

Within the next five to 10 years, the ROW will have helped create a safer, more harmonious community by helping women acquire the education, skills, vocational training and resources necessary to build self-sufficient prosperous lives..

Our Mission:

An organization's mission statement is an opportunity to convey in a concise and compelling way the difference the organization is aiming to make in the world.
Stakeholders want to be part of making this happen and they want the organization to be remembered for this in the future.
ROW mission statements are :

Achieving full community life for children and adults, widows, voulanrable women:

ROW introduces a new sharper mission statement This statement reflects two dimensions that define the purposes of the organization and its intended contributions to improving the lives of children and adults with disabilities who are served through its efforts. The two dimensions are: Achieving means insuring that individuals female who are widows, illetrate, unvocational, poor and vounlanrables with disabilities have the right combination of support and opportunity to experience their own individual potential. Full community life means the opportunity for every individual who are female ,poor, disables ,widows,voulunrables disabilities to actively participate with their family, friends, co-workers and other valued relationships in creating a life that is joyful and fulfilled.

Goals:

The following goals are selected for the ROW NGO for next 10 years to achieve these goals provide a roadmap for fulfilling the strategic direction. Main goal of ROW is to have close contact with donors and other charity organizations, which are working for rehabilitation of our war torn country Afghanistan through getting and implementing of projects Sub goals:
 To contribute in development of rural Afghanistan...
 To help needy Afghans through implementation of sustainable projects.
 To encourage Afghans to participate in rehabilitation.
 To provide humanitarian assistance.
 To provide Afghan women with possible vocational trainings

Service Delivery

The main service area which is specified under the basic needs for development are as per the following, ROW provide model supports for people with disabilities and their families, either directly or through partnerships with or referrals to other service Providers in the following areas:

 “Work week” opportunities (e.g. employment and day supports)
 Vocational training
 Health hygiene
 Agriculture
 Food and health
 Residential support (e.g. community living and participation)
 Family support and education
 Education
 Survey
 Water, irrigation and sanitation
 Emergency and Relief
 Capacity building
 Conflicts Resolution
 Peace & Stability
 Good Governance
 Transferency Accountability
 Media

Note Objectives:

The main objective and strategy of ROW is to create social and economical condition for self – reliance and self generation development in a local community.: A. Employment Support
 More people with disabilities find and keep jobs in the community that pay a living wage and are satisfying.
 The number of referrals for jobs and the amount of available training support increases.
 .There is an increase in the number of businesses in the county that employ people with disabilities.
 Local public policy continues to created favorable conditions for supported Employment. B. Meaningful Life and Residential Support In this area, The ROW supports consumers in four categories: day support, residential support, individual support and services, and supported retirement assistance. The following objectives apply to all four categories. 1. Increase in the number of customers beneficiaries in programs over 5 years with Disabilities who are using community resources in the county.
 Day Support
 Residential Support
 Individual and Support Services
 Supported Retirement Assistance
2. Consumers have greater choices and opportunities in social, recreational and
 civic activities in the community.
3. Consumers are more socially interactive and are better integrated into the community.
C. Family Support and Education

Human Resources

ROW has a professional HR management who follow all the international acts and rules which are specified for recruitment and staffing process ROW developed a stable, highly qualified and motivated workforce that actively delivers the organization’s mission.

Objectives:

 ROW developed capacity building plan for staff improving and is regularly implemented
 ROW improves its capacity to attract and retain qualified direct care staff.
 All staff thoroughly understands the meaning of the mission and how their job Contributes to achieving it.
 A professional development program is implemented to strengthen and expand the supervisory and management capacity and opportunities among mid-level managers.
 A professional development program is implemented to strengthen and expand the capacity of direct support staff to be community liaisons and Successfully integrate the consumers they support into the community

Targeted customers

The primary customer of an organization is the person whose life the Organization most wants to impact/change on a regular, ongoing basis. The primary customer is not necessarily someone you can reach or someone you can sit down with and talk to directly. Identifying the primary customer puts priorities in order and gives you a reference point for critical decisions. The primary customers of an organization can change over time. The supporting customers of the organization are all the people who must be satisfied in order for the organization to succeed. There can be many supporting customers. They are engaged with the organization to “support” the accomplishment of the mission. The ROW exists to support people with disabilities to have full community participation. These individuals are the organization’s “primary customer”. identify and meet the needs of children and adults with disabilities.

 

Duty and responsibility of each section

Director: Director of the office has the competence and responsibilities of signing contracts inside the country and organization the financial and administrational affairs of the organization as well as the staff selection and recruitment.

Program officer :

has the responsibilities to control and evaluate the the subordinates performance as well as report demanding from related department and searching for other projects and writing and preparing proposals. Admin / Finance department: It has the responsibility of organizing and evaluation of financial affairs, staff selection and recruitment, helping with the subordinates in their daily activities sending and receiving of memo and letters of the related departments, and other related responsibilities of the office. In case of need the subject will refer to the board of director and after approval of head of the office will execute accordingly.

Staffing and their payments

All the staff of ROW will be appointed on the basis of contract, concerning to its strategic plan responsibilities and job description of the staff will be mentioned on the contract ,Professional, educational and work expert , honest and faithful staff is most of requirement.\ If the staff leave the job for more than 20 days without permission of the office. ROW staff salary will be determined and approved by the board of director and head of office on the basis to national and international norms of the NGOs and other charity organizations. There will be an annual salary increase of up to 10% per year for all. Miscellaneous: Adding, removing and repairing of the fact sheet are the job and responsibilities of the board of director and head of office. For the implementation of the projects, ROW is willing to work jointly with other NGOs in order to get projects and explore its activities.

Work Plan:

ROW would like to consider the project timing and work plan and accordingly would arrange all project activities, staffing, required materials supplies and other related activities to run the project with good management and efficient way of implementation.
3. ROW aim is to work with high quality, considering all technical aspects and provided pictures and specification.
4. Timing hours would be according to normal practice, but if needed ROW would prefer to pay over time and extend the working hours in order to complete the work process soon, which would have its effects on time completion of the project.
5. ROW would like and prefer to complete the project on project time – line and hand it over to the client.

Monitoring:

The project manager would be responsible for the whole project and its planning and implementation, who would exactly consider the quality and specification and would seriously, consider the quality of work. Beside the project manager ROW would have close eye on the project implementation, its quality, Progress and management.

Reporting

The project manager would be responsible for the record of daily activities and . has to prepare monthly progress reports. Monthly progress reports would be prepared and send to the client and its copies should be kept with ROW office in administrator office.

Relation with Local authorities (Beneficiaries)

ROW would prefer to have close work relation with the local authorities and beneficiary organization, to consider the prevailing rules regulations, in order to create a peaceful atmosphere. ROW would work jointly with the beneficiaries in order to pave the way for smooth implementation of the project. Beneficiary would be asked for creation of good working atmosphere, and good working condition that the site would be suitable for the project personnel to plan their work and activities.