ORGANIZATION VISION AND MISSION
RMO Philosophy: RMO philosophy is that sustainable improvement in rural communities and resource utilization through instruction and skills improvement and also social and economic development of a population, based on some strong principle.
Mobilizing the population: encourages the beneficiaries to be the actors of their development. RMO with its projects wants to give to Afghan people the means to choose their future.
Empowerment of local staff: RMO board and executive staff is organized from afghan experts that make one of the pillar of RMO.
Local projects: RMO first wants to understand the local context before developing a project to best answer to the local needs and national policies.
Gender:
Women are extremely vulnerable positions within the community ad household, particularly the disable once. All RMO project take into account women needs and offer training activities to develop women empowerment, minimum 35% of project beneficiaries are women.
Disability: Individually RMO constantly take into consideration disable people requirements, this means targeting persons of disabilities difficult through their projects. They benefit from training that the disability does not prevent the person working in the training.
RMO Board is made up of 5 members of whom 1 are core members, all are volunteers. It meets about 12 times/year. The Board leads RMO’s overall policy, to which country staff contribute through its General Director. The organization is run by an Executive Director, an Afghan national, graduated from the Kabul Agriculture faculty. He has worked with NGOs in Afghanistan since 2005. He is supported in his tasks by experienced and professional Afghans, among whom the Departmental responsible.
The organization currently employs 5 staff.
RMO support departments
RMO staff has acquired extensive experience working with different donors for the past years through SAB. It has procedures in place to ensure transparency and accountability.
RMO staff has exercises control over procurement and stocks by using an advanced accounting and stock management database. RMO continuously seeks to improve its financial competencies by reviewing and upgrading its procedures, software programs and the human resources’ skills of its Finance and Administrative departments.
KEY ACTIVITIES AREA
RMO have concentrated on promoting the socio-economic empowerment of the most disadvantaged segments of the population, targeting women and men through Vocational Training/Income Generation, Agriculture/Livelihoods, Education projects and food security.
RMO strategy is to promote the development and autonomy of the Afghan population. To achieve these aims:
– RMO implements training and education project to give the appropriate means and resources to the Afghan population so it will decide for its own future ;
– RMO focuses on the capacity building of its Afghan staff has a very limited number of expatriates;
Since 1992 the RMO staffs works with SAB organization in different province of Afghanistan in following key areas:
The vocational training department concentrates on practical training through apprenticeship in many different trades supported with literacy and theoretical courses. Income generating opportunities are thus created and individual self-reliance and skill building encouraged.
Since 2007 SAB is an actor of the afghan National Skills Development Program (NSDP) that aims at providing training and job opportunities and at designing curriculum, and diploma for vocational training.
Solidarité Afghanistan Belgique (SAB) firmly believe that Agriculture is a subsistence-based economy with 80 of population depending. SAB found that supporting this huge vulnerable portion of afghan communities is more necessity, thus since 2004 SAB established a department of Agriculture which leads by national experts. The agriculture department focuses on theoretical and practical training and monitoring on the field for farmers willing to increase their production and incomes. Since March 2007 SAB is part of the Perennial Horticulture Development Project (PHDP) that aims at improving the national fruit production.
The education department trains Afghan teachers and teachers’ trainers through courses, seminars and resource centres and develops pedagogic material and manuals, with the Afghan Ministry of Education training program, and in line with its strategy.