Evaluation Report

For improving women’s political participation, the PWN has worked with provincial council members to raise awareness
on importance of equal participation of women. The network has also trained provincial council members to enhance
their interaction with the public. Moreover, the network has facilitated a session for direct communication of public
and their political representatives. The network has also advocated for the recruitment of women in governmental
Majority of the members and stakeholders confirmed that the network is raising awareness on the importance of equal
participation of women and around half of them cited that the network is running advocacy campaigns for women to
participate in elections as a measure of increasing political participation of women in Bamyan.
120 %
100 %
80 %
60 %
40 %
20 %
0 %
10-7: Activities for Political Partcipation of Women, Members
and Stakeholders' Perspective
Improved awareness
of the importance of
equal participation
of women
Advocacy campaign
for women to
participate in
elections
Advocacy to hire
women in
government offices
Members' View
Stakehoders' View
Achievements
Distributing sanitary kits among women prisoners: The network has monitored women’s situation in prisons of
Bamyan. Since the women in the prison were not in healthy condition and also had poor hygiene quality, the network
advocated for them with Baran organization. As a result of this advocacy, sanitary kits were distributed among these
women in the prison. In addition, since the jail had no gynecologist, Baran organization promised to send its own
gynecologist once per week to treat the prisoners.
Enhancing girl’s education: Illiteracy in Bamyan is a main problem among women. To increase level of education, the
network identified illiterate women and motivated them to start their education. Consequently, ten women were
introduced to a literacy course funded by Aghakhan and soon they will finish class four.
Daikundi PWN Findings from the Member’s & Stakeholder’s Perspective
Daikundi PWN is one of the newly established networks of EPD, which has achieved various achievements during
a short period of time. The network has established quite strong interactions with different organizations and has
received support from different stakeholders in order to conduct effective advocacies.
According to Daikundi PWN members and stakeholders, the most prevalent problems women are facing at the
community level are lack of education and awareness, violence against women, lack of women’s political participation
and financial dependence of women. According to majority 86% of the PWN members and 90% of stakeholders, lack of
education and awareness is the main problem that women face in their community. Also all the stakeholders mentioned
violence against women and financial dependence are the greatest hurdles women face in their community. Around
half of both members and stakeholders said that lack of women’s political participation is a barrier in the upliftment
of women.
120 %
100 %
80 %
60 %
40 %
20 %
0 %
Violence against
women
11-1: Major Problems Women Face in Community, Members and
Stakeholders' Perspective
Lack of education
and awareness
Lack of women
supporters
Lack of women
political
participation
Financial
dependence
Members' View
Stakehoders' View
EQUALITY for Peace and Democracy
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Provincial Women's Network Evaluation Report