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ntroduction Zar Consulting is an Afghan-owned and Afghan-led private sector undertaking registered with AISA. Zar Consulting is passionate to contribute to economic growth and social development in Afghanistan through transforming and strengthening the service industry. We offer a number of highly focused services i.e. research consultancy and capacity-building.Zar Consulting is led by an active Afghan woman along with a dynamic and result-oriented team of nationals and internationals with outstanding educational and professional background. We offer specialism and expertise across a wide range of themes related to socio-economic development in the country. These themes include community empowerment local governance organizational development and child protection and positive parenting. We have been delivering effective services and innovative projects for private and public sector organizations which make the best economic sense in enabling our clients to achieve their objectives. Amongst others UNICEF ICCO and the U.S Ambassador Grant Programs civil society partners U.S-ASGP are our current clients. Vision To be the leading organization offering high quality consultancy research and capacity-building services in both rural and urban Afghanistan.Mission Acting as an intermediary between development and business actors enabling them to trade skills exchange information and make informed decisions in order to achieve efficiency in the market. Goal By 2013 Zar Consulting established strategic partnerships with 5 potential international companies and ONLY implement projects higher than 100000 gained 3 Millionyear in revenue minimum. Objectives1.Maintaining a highly professional team of national and international experts 2.Promoting technological adaptation to increase productivity and efficiency in service delivery3.Delivering quality capacity-building programs to enable organizations improve their performance4.Producing useful information to bolster market awareness and market measurement capacity 5.Encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation to increase employment and achieve stability Partnership AdvantagesZar consulting can be your potential development partner in Afghanistan. With Zar Consulting you will have the competitive advantage of and will be benefited from a partnership that offers -A highly professional team of national and international experts committed to quality-Thorough understanding of the context and ruralurban know-how re stability interventions-High reputation of being partner with UN GIRoA PRTs Embassies and INGOs-Enthusiasms to learn replicate change innovate develop and strive to be the most responsive-Strong network of influential persons in Government and private sector including INGOs at national provincial and grass-root levels-Information about opportunities and limitations in the Afghan market and development areaCore Operating Values TRUST a five letters word represents our core operating valuesTeam-work combining our strengths to overcome our weaknesses and achieve optimal performanceResponsibility caring for what we do and its outcome ---apply a no-harm principle at all the timeUrgency pushing ourselves to the limit to deliver quality work and meet deadlines Sustainability building on solid foundations and taking on interventions to achieve long-lasting solutionsTransparency doing business according to acceptable national and international standards

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Zar offers services inLeadership and organizational developmentStability local governance and social-economic developmentChild rights gender parity and human rights

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Zar Consulting has been implementing projects for national and international clients. Amongst others UNICEF ICCO Sesame StreetWorkshop and the U.S Ambassador Grants Civil Society Partners U.S-ASGP are the main ones. UNICEF This project is a study on the functionality effectiveness and streamlining of Child Protection Action Network at national provincial and district levels. The study identifies best practices consolidates lesson-learns and produces a guide on taking measures to create a supportive environment for children in the country. The project covers 21 districts and 12 provinces including Kandahar Badghis Heart Kunur Laghman Parwan Kunduz Badakhshan Dikundi Balkh Samangan and Jawzjan. The study report will produce specific recommendations regarding capacity needs at national provincial and district levels. Reference Abdul Sami Program Protection Specialists.hashemi@unicef.org 0093 0 798 507 554ICCO This project is an assignment on evaluation of a pilot phase of Community-Based Disaster and Risk Management Program that ICCO Danish Organization implemented in partnership with Sanaye Development Organization SDO and Center for Cooperation in Afghanistan CCA in four key districts in Herat and Bamyan. As a result success stories are documented gaps are identified and revisions are made and a guideline for expansion of project to communities is introduced. Another key component of this assignment was to review and improve a three years strategic program framework for ICCO which is about conflict transformation in multi-ethnic districts of Midan-Wardak Dikundi Badghis and Herat provinces. Lesson learns are documented and reported internationally. ReferenceAzada Hussaini Program Development SpecialistAzada.hussaini@icco.nl 0093 0 706 606 169U.S-ASGP This project was a capacity-building assignment for five Civil Society Organizations that implemented U.S-ASGP grants to empower women in Bamyan and Dikundi provinces. The project aimed at building the CSOs capacity to deliver strategic services in a transparent and sustainable manner. It involved developing policy manuals and training and mentoring the CSOs on six competency areas i.e. gender mainstreaming strategic management human resource management financial procedures fundraising and project management. Manuals were received as a best practice among many competitors and acknowledgement certificates issued to Zar Consulting.ReferenceLida Sulaiman Nadery National Advocacy Managerlidan@crea-af.com lidanadery@msn.com 0093 0 796 777 105Sesame Street New York Zar Consulting is in the final negotiation phase with Sesame Street to manage Sesame Street educational projects in Afghanistan. The projects include a TV series by Tolo and Limar channels MOBY Group an educational radio project by Equal Access and a possible educational outreach program by Agha Khan Foundation. Besides managing ongoing projects Zar Consulting will be doing fundraising on behalf of Sesame New York for more projects. Reference Daniel Donohue Senior DirectorDaniel.Donohue@sesame.org19175131751

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