Evaluation Report

In Parwan, the PWN acts as a bridge between women, society & government and inspires women to take part in civic
activities. In order to encourage women’s political participation and participation of women in decision making, Parwan
PWN attempts to increase awareness on equal participation of gender in politics, decision making and civil services in
the community. To this end, all the members confirmed, that they have been involved in advocating for hiring more
women in governmental offices, around 90% mentioned of being involved in raising awareness on the importance of
equal participation of women.
Also the stakeholders praised the efforts of PWN, for encouraging women’s political participation at grass root level,
all of them stated that the network has been involved in raising awareness on the importance of equal participation of
women. Around 85% mentioned PWN is advocating for the recruitment of women in government offices.
According to the provincial coordinator, the network is actively involved in advocating for the increase in recruitment
of women in governmental offices.
105 %
3-9: Activities for Political Partcipation of women, Members
and Stakeholders' Perspective
100 %
95 %
90 %
85 %
80 %
Members
Stakeholders
75 %
Improved awareness of the
importance of equal participation
of women
Advocacy to hire women in
government offices
Achievements
Monitoring health service in Parwan clinics: On 25th September 2016, PWN along with representatives of women
affair directorate, youth association and Peace and War media advocated for solving the problem of service delivery in
the maternity department of Parwan hospital. This hospital is supposed to provide free services and medicines to the
patients, however there were complaints from the people that the hospitals staff is asking for money for the services.
The PWN members along with aforementioned stakeholder went to the hospital and discussed the issue with relevant
authorities. As a result, security cameras were installed in the hospital to keep a check on the employees and the
concerned authorities started monitoring the activities, hence the problem was solved.
Solving domestic violence: In a domestic violence case, a girl namely Muzhgan, was frequently beaten up by her father.
He also stabbed her by knife and after that incident the girl asked for the intervention of PWN in her case. The PWN
members along with influential elders went to the father of this girl and after the negotiation; father regretted and
promised to stop beating her daughter. The PWN after the follow up confirmed that the girl is not facing the violence
anymore.
Faryab PWN Findings from the Member’s & Stakeholder’s Perspective
Faryab PWN is one of the most experienced networks of EPD, established on May 2013. The network has hired members
from different ethnicities, proportionate to their population in the province. The Uzbek’s in Faryab are the majority
and around 73% members of the PWN are from Uzbek tribe. These members are financially independent and work for
public sector (34%), private sector (7 %) and some are self-employed (27%) and they also contribute to their household
incomes. Furthermore, most the members are literate and also hold higher educational degrees, which helps them to
have more impact over the people at the grass root level.
The members also claimed that their level of awareness regarding women’s rights has increased over the time, as a
result of their involvement in PWN activities and also a majority of them (70%) are receiving a high degree of support
from their families in conducting advocacies for women at the community level.
Regarding interaction among the members, 40% of them said they meet each other on weekly basis to discuss the
PWN activities. The graph below shows PWN members interaction with their household members and other women
in community. A majority of them, talk about PWN activities and advocacies with these two groups on weekly and
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Provincial Women's Network Evaluation Report