CIVIC

Centre of Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) Afghanistan

Principle of Management Class Presentation
Group: Syed Muzaffar, Sediqullah, Hezbullah, Sebghatullah,Safiullah.
 Agenda for the workshop (day one)

• Who is CIVIC?
• What does CIVIC do
• CIVIC’s history and works in Afghanistan
• CIVIC’s theory of change
• CIVIC Afghanistan particular organization chart
• SWOT for CIVIC
 Who is CIVIC

Our Mission:
• Work with armed actors and civilians in conflict to develop and
implement solutions to prevent, mitigate and respond to civilian
harm.
Our Vision:
• A world where parties to armed conflicts recognize the dignity and
rights of civilians, prevent civilian harm, protect civilians caught in
conflict, and amend harm.
 Goal: Global actors embrace and consistently apply a higher standard of civilian
CIVIC’s Theory of
protection in conflict
change

Objective 2: Governments
Objective 1: Multinational
and armed actors Objective 3: Civilians are
organizations, missions, and
demonstrate a commitment effective agents of their
forces prioritize POC
to POC own protection

IR 1.1: POC is embedded in the IR 2.1: Governments and

mandates, resolutions, policies,
guidance, frameworks, and
training that govern and support
multinational organizations,
missions, and forces
IR 1.2: Multinational
organizations, missions, and
forces are effectively and
appropriately implementing
their POC mandates
armed actors institutionalize IR 3.1: Civilians have the
POC in policy and practice information and tools needed
to implement self-protection
IR 2.2: Governments and strategies and practices
armed actors have the
capacity to implement POC
policies and practices IR 3.2: Civilians exert pressure
IR 2.3: Influential on armed actors to protect
governments make POC a civilians
primary consideration in
security assistance and
partnering arrangements

Cross-cutting IR: Civilians’ perspectives are incorporated into decision-making processes and operational
planning
 Board of Directors
Executive
Director HQ

Program Operations Development

Director HQ Director HQ Director HQ

Regional
Director MENA
and South Asia
Progoram Program
Supprt1 Support II

Afghanistan
Country
Director

National National
Operations
Program program Officer
Manager
Officer1 II
 SWOT for CIVIC
• Strength:
• 1. International recognition
• 2.Recognation at the UN
protecting unit
• 3.Capable staff
• 4. Use of technology
• 5 Learning organization
• Weakness:
• 1. Funding suitability issue
• 2. Short term personal contracts (
job security)
• 3. Different time zone
management and different
working hours/work week.
• 4. Spent lots of time on online
meetings
• 5. Budget centralization
 SWOT for CIVIC
• Opportunities:
• 1. Demand for work on CIVILIAN
protection
• 2. More conflicts
• 3. Donors are ready to fund
• Young and learning organization
• 4. Chances for growth
• Threats:
• 1. Lack of respect for International
Humanitarian Law (IHL) by different
actors
• 2. Non State Actors deliberately violate
the law. Part of their strategy is to harm
• 3. High security risk
• 4. Lack of trained personnel at field level
(not HQ level)
• 5. short term funding cycle.
 Challenges

• Armed actors not abiding by the International Humanitarian Law (IHL)

• Government not fully implementing the Civilian Casualty Prevention and
Mitigation Policy
• Non State Armed Actors have no regard for IHL
• Data collection of Civilian Casualties is a major issue, because access to most
part of the country is not possible.
• Lack of proper training of ANDSF and OAG on the right use of force
• Indiscriminate targeting of civilians
• Using civilians as human shield.
ANY QUESTION?