Missions, Key programs and achievements:
ACSFo established in partnership with Afghan civil society actors and “Swisspeace” (a Swiss private foundation for the promotion of peace) at the request of 76 participants of the first Afghan Civil Society Conference in Bad Honnef, Germany in 2001. ACSFo envisions “a democratic, dynamic and vibrant society based on citizenry values. ACSFo mission is “to facilitate the process of citizen building and state building through advocacy,
capacity building and coordination”. Since its inception, ACSFo has been implementing projects around four thematic areas i.e. advocacy and coordination, capacity building, public outreach, media and rule of law. The first nationwide project on literacy educated 15 million citizens from 2003 to 2005. In 2004, the organization established first National Youth Advocacy Forum by setting up more than 180 youth advocacy committees in northern, eastern and western provinces. These committees facilitated the establishment of national advocacy groups and forums leading to the implementation of the first ever project in Afghanistan on homebound women in Paktia and Kandahar provinces benefitting 120,000 women. To improve and strengthen good governance and accountability, ACSFo conducted survey on the role of government in basic social service delivery by documenting the issues/challenges in the sector and shortcomings of the government. ACSFo has implemented good governance project in Ghor and Samangan wherein the areas of interests for advocacy were identified and a network of civil society organizations was established for the advocacy purpose. ACSFo has also conducted research on “state building in fragile situations”, cost of war” and “people’s definition of violence in Afghanistan”.
Date of Establishment: 2001
AEITI, ACJC, ACSONP, ACSEN, ENRMN, CS-JWG, Afghan Peoples Dialogue (APD), Victims Network for Peace, Counter Corruption Watch Committee (CCWC), Transnational Justice Advocacy committee)
Law on Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs)
Advocacy and coordination, capacity building, media and public outreach and rule of law
21 Provinces of Afghanistan (Kabul, Balkh, Herat, Nangarhar, Parwan, Kunduz, Samangan, Ghor, Kandahar, Paktya, Bamyan, Laghman, Kunar, Daikundi, Jawzjan, Takhar, Badkhshan, Nimroz, Nuristan, Urozgan, Badghis).
SDC, EC, Oxfam Novib, Tawanmandi, Norwegian Embassy, Embassy of Germany, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Heinrich Boll Stiftung, USAID, Counterpart Int, British Embassy, GIZ, DAI, ICCO, TAF, UNOPS, ded, DCAF, SCA, Embassy of Finland, DPG, Afghanaid, Global Rights, DACAAR, Internews, ASGP, UN Wome
Mr. Azizurrahman Rafiee
Aziz Rafiee has contributed to the Afghanistan civil society development in more than 23 years of his active work and engagement. He has worked with a wide range of civil society stakeholders including the social, human rights and cultural organizations as well as NGOs and associations. He has been the founding member of more than 12 civil society organizations who are contributing to the democratic development processes of the country. Furthermore he has been one of the initiators and founding members of the Afghan Civil Society Organizations Network for Peace (ACSONP), Free and Fair Elections Foundation (FEFA), the Civil Society Coalition for Advocacy (CSCA), the Action for Civil Society in Afghanistan (ACSA) and Civil Society Joint Advocacy Committee (CS-JAC) and a key actor in establishing the Civil Society Join Working Group (CS- JWG). Aziz Rafiee is the convening member of the Tokyo NGO Conference (December 2001) Emergency Loya Jirga (early 2002) and the Constitution Loya Jirga (in 2004). Aziz Rafiee was elected, by the Afghan civil society members, to represent the Afghan civil society in the Berlin (2004) and London (2006) conferences. In 2008, he represented the Afghan the civil society in the Paris donor conference, too. He has been a strong advocator of civil society, democracy and human rights values and principles not only at the national but also in the international forums, meetings, seminars and conference. Aziz Rafiee, by leading ACSFo, led the processes of the Civic education for both Presidential and Parliamentary Elections with a nation-wide outreach of 6.2 and 11 million people respectively. He has been a member and a resource person in almost every civil society coalition for advocacy, capacity development and coordination, in the past two decades. He is currently leading the Afghan Civil Society Forum-organization with more than 350 members and partners who are fully engaged in capacity building, advocacy and rule of law programs around the country. Aziz Rafiee born in district one of Kabul on 29 January 1960 and has lived all his life inside the country. By profession he is an engineer, graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of Kabul University (1981). Besides being Board member of 8 civil society organizations (3 women organizations), he is the Chairperson of the Afghanistan Engineers Association (AEA).
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