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Returnees Enterprise Development (RED)

1st Quarterly Report (July-September 2017)

Project at a Glance Project Title Returnees Enterprises

Development Project

Funding Agency Ministry of Finance (MOF)

Project Pin Code AFG Code 430477

Implementing

Agency

Afghanistan Rural Enterprises

Development Program

Type of Project Enterprises Development (Job

creation for returnees)

Country,

Province

Afghanistan Kabul, Nangarhar, Laghman, Parwan, Baghlan, Balkh, Herat and Kandahar Provinces

Project Duration March 2017-March 2018

Planned Target 5,000 Families or 30,000

Individuals

Actual Target 5,000 Families or 31,500

Individuals

Approved

Budget

USD 500,000

Expenses of the

first quarter

USD 259,396

Group Work on Business cycle Management during

the Enterprises Development Training Session

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Contents Project at a Glance ................................................................................................................................... I

Executive Summary: ............................................................................................................................... III

Introduction: ............................................................................................................................................ 1

Progress/Achievements during the Quarter: ......................................................................................... 2

A. Beneficiaries Selection: .................................................................................................................... 4

B. Procurement of looms and raw materials: ...................................................................................... 4

C. Beneficiaries Linkages: ..................................................................................................................... 6

D. Participation in Exhibition:............................................................................................................... 6

E. Enterprise Development &ESS Training (EDT): ............................................................................... 6

Challenges: ............................................................................................................................................... 7

Lessons Learnt: ........................................................................................................................................ 8

Recommendations: ................................................................................................................................. 9

Annex.1 .................................................................................................................................................. 10

Annex.2. ................................................................................................................................................. 12

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Executive Summary:

Afghanistan is a country experiencing a huge influx of returnees, from different countries around the

world, many from Pakistan and Iran. In 2016 alone, the country welcomed more than 600,000 returnees

through different bordering provinces. UNHCR predicts another 500,000 to 700,000 or even more

returnee’s by the end of 2017, which is mainly due to unfavorable living conditions in neighboring

countries or forced eviction of these families. The Government of Afghanistan despite having limited

observing capacity to accommodate the huge load of the returning population, is still committed to

provide sustainable support, in terms of launching various income generating programs at the local

community and national level.

To support the returned families, through sustainable means of income generation, create employment

and strengthen local economy, the Government of Afghanistan started Returnees Enterprises

Development (RED) project to support carpet sector value chain through Afghanistan Rural Enterprises

Development Program (AREDP) of Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation & Development.

During the first quarter, AREDP have extensive tangible outputs for the RED project as per the set targets

and timeline. The program was able to manage a

consultative workshop with carpet producing small and

medium enterprisers and companies, Ministry of Refugee

& Repatriation, Afghanistan Carpet Export Guild, and

other pertinent stakeholders. Thru the workshop, the

program was empowered with prodigious strategies to

implement the project by adopting stepwise approach

throughout the project duration.

Moreover; the program conducted beneficiary selection

survey for the planned 5000 returnees in all pre-identified locations in eight provinces (Kabul, Nangarhar,

Laghman, Parwan, Baghlan, Balkh, Herat & Kandahar) who had the skills of carpet weaving or have worked

in one of the carpet value chain component. The beneficiaries were selected in close coordination with

relevant stakeholders including but not limited to; MoRR, IOM, UNHCR, Afghanistan Carpet Export Guild

(ACEG). The data collected on beneficiaries was entered to web-based database, analyzed and found out

that 78% of the surveyed beneficiaries were carpet weavers, 8.8% were involved in yarn production

process, 5.5% were professional in dyeing, and the remaining small percentage of people were involved

Consultation Stakeholders

workshop

Beneficiaries Selection

Procurement of looms and raw

materials

Training on Enterprise

Development & ESS

Initiations on Linkages to Carpet

Sector

Participation in Exhibition

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in different components of the carpet value chain. Despite the fact that the bigger percentage of the

beneficiaries were skilled in carpet weaving, it was observed that 70% of them were unemployed.

AREDP also imparted Enterprises Development (ED) and

Environmental Social Safe guard (ESS) training to the

selected target group, right after the beneficiary selection,

the process still continues to cover the whole target group

and capacitate them with business established and

knowledge development. During the reporting period, 450

selected beneficiaries were trained with ED and ESS.

In addition to that; AREDP, through the procurement

directorate of MRRD, announced for EoI for procurement

of quality looms and carpet raw materials for its

beneficiaries.

Moving ahead, the program intends to make long term

market linkages and production-buy back arrangements

with Carpet Industries/Companies through a proper due

diligence and signing of MoUs. This would entail technical

training, production order, provision of designs,

procurement of finished products, provision of

consumers’ feedback, etc.

Practical testing carpet weavers’ skills

Enterprise Development Training Session

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Background:

Afghanistan is a country experiencing a huge influx of returnees, from different countries around the

world, many from Pakistan and Iran. In 2016 alone, the country welcomed more than 600,000 returnees

through different bordering provinces. UNHCR predicts another 500,000 to 700,000 or even more

returnees by the end of 2017, which is mainly due to unfavorable living conditions in neighboring countries

or forced eviction of these families. The Government of Afghanistan despite having limited observing

capacity to accommodate the huge load of the returning population, is still committed to provide

sustainable support, in terms of launching various income generating programs at the community and

national level.

To support the returned families, through sustainable means of income generation, create employment

and strengthen local economy, the Government of Afghanistan designed and started piloting Returnees

Enterprises Development (RED) Program to support carpet sector value chain through Afghanistan Rural

Enterprises Development Program (AREDP). This project is designed with an aim to support skilled

returnees in carpet sector at the initial stage and will engage the non-skilled ones at the later stages.

Introduction:

This project is focused to establish the business of the beneficiaries which will provide them livelihood

opportunity in a sustainable manner. AREDP has adopted market driven approach to support the targeted

beneficiaries involved in the carpet value chain, this include; yarn production, thread spinning, dyeing,

carpet design, carpet weaving, carpet cutting & washing, and marketing. RED project will be mainly

undertaking the following activities throughout the project duration:

• Situation Analysis: AREDP will conduct extensive market research and analysis to find out the

matching skills with the market needs and demand for the carpet sector and will utilize the

findings for better implementation of the program.

• Enterprise Mobilization: The program will primarily provide orientation to the selected Returnees,

about the program, formation and strengthening of Enterprises Groups (EGs), creation and

strengthening of Saving Groups (SG) and Village Saving and Loan Associations (VSLAs) (where ever

possible).

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• Capacity Building: AREDP will start capacity building activities right after the beneficiary selection

like; Soft Skills training (Enterprises Development), Environmental and Social Safeguard, technical

trainings, business planning, marketing & selling, bookkeeping, customer care etc, besides on the

job mentoring and handholding. In addition to that, need based technical know-how skills

development training, will be also part of the capacity building component.

• Business Development Support: The program will also take into account conducting business

incubations, toolkit distribution, apprenticeship opportunity, conducting exhibitions, market

linkages, exposure visits, product placement, Branding, standardizing the products and support

to value chain actors (dying, cutting and washing, etc.)

Progress/Achievements during the Quarter:

During the first quarter AREDP started implementation of the project with the selection of beneficiaries,

enterprises mobilization, capacity building and business development for 5000 returnee beneficiaries.

Thus; the program organized a workshop of different actors involved in carpet value chain to understand

the main constraints towards this sector and way forward for overcoming the challenges.

CONSULTATION WORKSHOP:

To step forward for a better implementation of RED project, AREDP organized a one day workshop in

Kabul PMO, where all the carpet producing industries and small and medium carpet sector enterprises

were invited for the participation. Following are the main finding of the workshop conducted during this

quarter:

Suggestions for better implementation Description of the main activities S.No

Identification of returnees major spots in close coordination with MoRR, UNHCR, IOM, MoCI, ACCI, and ACEG.

Development of detailed questionnaires to find out the beneficiaries’ current status, skills, and means for sustainable support

Capacity building of selected beneficiaries in carpet value chain

Business development support of the selected beneficiaries

Conducting widespread Beneficiary selection survey

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The program should at least distribute 5000 carpet weaving looms, carpet raw materials and thread production solar machines to the returnees who are already skilled in carpet weaving.

Distribution of Carpet Weaving Looms, Raw materials & Thread

production Solar Machines

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The products should have clear mechanism of trade in local, national and international market.

Beneficiaries’ linkages should be properly done through the program, which is more important for sustainability of the project.

Signing MOUs with international carpet whole seller

Product placement

Production promotion - publication materials & outlets

Standardization of Afghan products

E-marketing

Identification of international markets for Afghan handmade carpets businesses

Providing the opportunity for exposure visits to the top carpet production companies, dealers and industries

Marketing 3

Launching awareness programs for machine made and handmade carpets through media

Developing awareness through websites, brochures, billboards, exhibitions and various conferences

Awareness Raising Programs

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Awareness raising programs on Environmental Social Safe Guard should be conducted

Provision of ESS kits to the people who are practically involved in carpet weaving

Environmental Social Safe Guard 5

Identification and selection of carpet export companies and traders

Facilitating simple procedures and process for carpet exporters

Certification and standardization of the carpet production, dealers and companies

Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce & Industries And

Afghanistan Carpet Export Guild

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Tax free or low tax export facility

Increasing the tax on imported carpets

Subsidizing the carpet export tariff for carpet dealers

Ministry of Finance 7

Providing the facility for registration

Giving the opportunity for standardization and linkages

Facilitating the Tax issues for carpet export and import with Ministry of Finance

Signing MOUs with Ministry of Transportation and Civil Aviation for transportation of the carpets with low cost to international markets

Subsidizing the Afghan handmade carpets export cost to the international exhibitions

Facilitating the linkages of the Afghan carpet traders with international traders, companies and industries

Conducting exhibitions of the Afghan handmade carpets at the provincial and national level

Ministry of Commence & Industries

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Investing on expanding the carpet manufacturing companies and on small and medium carpet enterprises

Introducing new designs and facilities of carpet sector including processing machines

Coordination with international markets to take part in exhibitions, cultural and traditional ceremonies

Identification of international traders in carpet sector

Registration with international business development service providers

Easy access to the foreign relation of the Foreign Ministry

Providing facility to the carpet export traders for receiving and process their visas for foreign countries

Ministry of Foreign Affair 9

Promotion of raw material production units

Establishment of the centers to collect, sort, wash and dye the raw materials ( Carpet Finishing Centres)

Providing the facility for raw material production and process

Breeding for the quality yarn and thread production

Control on importing low quality raw materials

Standardization of raw materials

Signing MOU with Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation & Livestock to support livestock association for increasing the yarn production

Raw materials and other resources

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A. Beneficiaries Selection:

During this quarter RED project beneficiaries (5000 people) were selected in eight targeted provinces

(Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Balkh, Nangarhar, Laghman, Baghlan and Parwan). The beneficiaries were

selected using various criteria’s developed through close coordination with relevant directorates including

MoRR, IOM, UNHCR, Afghanistan Carpet Export Guild (ACEG). The beneficiaries’ data were collected,

analyzed and shared with relevant organizations. It was found out that 78% of the surveyed beneficiaries

were carpet weavers, 8.8% were involved in yarn production process, 5.5% were professional in dyeing,

and the remaining small percentage of people were involved in different components of the carpet value

chain. Despite the fact that the bigger percentage of the beneficiaries were skilled in carpet weaving, 70%

of them were unemployed.

B. Procurement of looms and raw materials:

Immediately after the selection of beneficiaries, the procurement process was taken up during the quarter

with detailed specifications on looms and raw materials. AREDP seeks to contract a standard company

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to provide the following materials/facilities to the AREDP-RED project beneficiaries: 1- to provide quality

looms and raw materials to the beneficiaries, 2- to provide designers to train the beneficiaries on market

based designs.

Annex1.shows details of the beneficiary selection survey in the targeted provinces.

“This was the first time that I was called to attend a training and learn about the enterprises

development. I was able to understand – I can start my own business gradually rather than

working for a company for all the time”, said Haji Safar, while asked how the EDT imparted by

AREDP would help him.

Haji Safar, out of Afghanistan and living in Iran as refugee with his family during the decades of

war and conflict in Afghanistan, was hardly making his ends meet as a daily wage labor, though

well skilled in carpet weaving. He returned to Afghanistan and settled down in Balkh province

while looking for opportunities to push his family out of poverty and it came soon to him , when

he started working as a weaver in one Carpet weaving and finishing unit in Balkh. He managed to

avail looms from the company with buy back arrangement. Along with his family members (three

of them knew carpet weaving), he was able to produce about 6 mtrs of carpets and earn about

200USD per month and this was certainly a much better start for him than he expected.

This was the time when AREDP got in touch with him and made him a part of RED project. He

participated in AREDP’s Enterprise

Development training program and

that helped him to understand the

business aspects and

entrepreneurship.

Haji Safar continued, ”Me and my

family have the capability to reach

out to many Carpet Companies to

fetch their orders. The only thing

that stopped me is the finance- he

said further. – I cannot manage the

raw materials for new carpets, and

if those are given to me, I would be

able to have a very quick raise and

higher income from my own business”. He also stated that, he is waiting for the time to receive

the looms and raw materials from the AREDP-RED project and would launch his own business

A little support and the Skilled Returnees pave their ways to

Entrepreneurship - A case of Haji Safar

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right after then. In addition, he also divulge, that in Balkh province there are hundreds of family

having the same situation like him , and if those are also included in this program they would be

able to have their own business and would stand on their own feet shortly.

C. Beneficiaries Linkages:

In the quarter, the project started identifying and communicating with different multinational registered

carpet companies in Afghanistan. To begin with, AREDP coordinated with its carpet value chain network

to support the idea and share the information about companies. This process was further supported by

MoCI, Good weave International and ACEG to make the Returnees Enterprises Development program

more suitable opportunity for target group in the project locations.

D. Participation in Exhibition:

RED beneficiaries participated in the Village Bazar exhibition organized by AREDP during September 2017

at Kabul and showcased their carpets for promotions, sales and customer feedback.

E. Enterprise Development &ESS Training (EDT):

Right of the after the beneficiary identification and selection, AREDP’s training unit provided training on

“Enterprise Development & ESS “ to 450 (200 male, 250 female) in Kabul, Parwan, Balkh, Herat and

Nangarhar provinces. This training was aimed as an experiential learning package of enterprise

development concepts and to learn the perception of the business they want to start.

Enterprises Development training was principally focused achieving the following objectives:

To enable participants on understanding on basic concepts of business (Business Definition,

Business Types, Business Cycle, Business Gaps and Business Categories)

To make them know and Identify Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies

To get the idea on 6 Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion, Packing & Packaging and Person-

entrepreneur) of Marketing

To provide them a complete understanding on development of Business plan.

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The trainings were imparted in Pashtoo & Dari

for better understanding and participation by

the trainees.

The EDT trainings was conducted by the Master

Trainers along with the PEF/BDSPs and used

different training methodologies such as brain

storming, group work, team work, discussions,

lectures, posters and practical application of

the concept by organizing mini market.

AREDP also instigated on providing one of the

most important training named Environmental

Social Safeguard with aim to make sure that the

beneficiaries who being involved in carpet

weaving have the knowledge to remain healthy,

and can avoid health hazards during their work.

The training was conducted by AREDP master

trainers whom were equipped with ESS training

guidelines, handouts, and First AID kits to be

used during practical sessions. The trainers also

adopted many other interesting methodologies to transfer the ESS training knowledge, skills and

attitude to the participants.

Challenges:

AREDP carried out the beneficiary selection survey, with pre-developed criteria’s for carpet value chain in

eight provinces for 4386 people. The team had faced different challenging conditions during paying visits

to the communities, identification of the beneficiaries, conducting interviews with female beneficiaries

Enterprises Development Training session

Environmental Social Safeguard Training session

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and selection of the ultimate beneficiaries for the project. Following were the key constraints during the

whole process throughout the target provinces:

Due to the low economic condition, most of the returnee families were living in informal

settlements in suburb, and accessing these families in remote and hard to reach areas due to

insecurity, were problematic.

Identification and selection of the target beneficiaries with specific skills, particularly in carpet

value chain, among the communities with high needs.

Afghan societies are highly conservative, in terms of societal norms and culture. Therefore;

Conducting interviews with female beneficiaries were highly challenging.

Coordination with the relevant pertinent authorities and taking their cooperation for the

implementation of the pilot phase project.

The data was collected through different teams in the target areas, and many some areas/fileds

of the required data was missing. Therefore; the data collection, verification and confirmation

consumed more time of the project reporting team.

Lessons Learnt:

During the quarter, RED program had the following lessons learnt for future:

Working in close coordination with government line ministries, UN agencies, Community

Development Councils, and Community elders, AREDP field staff could reach the most vulnerable

returnee families in remote areas without any security constraints.

Provision of awareness to the local communities about the project, enabled field staff to find

sufficient number of the volunteers to implement the project smoothly.

Implementing the project in coordinated manner with all involved actors in carpet value chain, helped

not only AREDP but other agencies to avoid duplication of the efforts at the community level, and

outreach deprived eligible families for the program.

AREDP formed committee of 4 people consisting community elders, community development council

members and government representative in bigger returnee camps where the number of the families

exceeded than 2000 families. Through this mechanism, AREDP team was able to better manage the

identification and selection process of the beneficiaries.

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Recommendations:

In order to empower the returnee families, it is highly important to enable them earn good income,

this can be only done, if the men and women work together and contribute for household economy.

Vocational trainings are the sole means of empowering the beneficiaries in short period, such

trainings including carpet weaving wound enable all the beneficiaries have sustainable means of

income generation for themselves.

Proper training to the data collectors on designed questionnaire and practical testing by the

mentioned staff, would certainly enable them to get adequate required and reliable data from the

beneficiaries.

Recruitment of the female enumerators, trainers and community mobilizers would certainly facilitate

better implementation of the program.

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Annex.1: Achievement against the plan.

W1 W2 W3 W4 W1 W2 W3 W4 W1 W2 W3 W4

1 To carryout indepth desk review of the AREDP

and RED project related documents

Reviewing the AREDP Policies, manuals,

documents and annual Reports

Desk review is completed

2 To Coordinate with relevant Ministries, UN

Agencies and establishing a carpet sector

network

Meeting with UNHCR, IOM, GOOD WEAVE, ACCI,

MoRR, ACEG, MoCI, MOE and other agencies

Established carpet related

agencies network

3 To prepare MOU with ACCI,MoCI,and ACEG In order to have all the activities run smoothly,

AREDP/RED project will coordinate closely and sign

an MOU with relevant ministries and agencies.

MOUs are prepared

4 To sign MOU with the MoCI, ACCI, Goodweave &

ACEG

The RED PMO staff will manage to sign MOUs and

make a network of the mentioned entities

MOUs are singed and

practiced by both parties

5 To collect information for Loom, carpet raw

materials and finalization

Coordinate with field team, ACEG, and Good

weave international to share their information

about quality loom and its specifications

Loom Specificaitons are

collected, verified and

approved by ACEG

6 To prepare budget estimation for loom and

carpet raw materials and submit to the

procurement for advertisement

Conduct market survey for the loom and raw

materials rates, coordinate with ACEG, finalize the

rates and submit to the procurement department

for advertisement

Loom and raw materials

estimated budget along

with requried documents

submited to the

procurement dept

7 To do followup on procurement of Loom and

raw materials (Contract awarding and delivery)

Close followup on loom and raw materials should

be done until the process is completed and the

contract is awarded to a firm/company

Procurement process for

Loom and raw materials

are completed

8 To Develop Beneficiary Selection Survey form

and finalize with carpet related agencies

network (Enterprise Mobilization)

The beneficiary selection form should be

developed by the team having specific expertise in

carpet sector

Beneficiary selection form

is developed and finalized

9 To conduct beneficiary selection survey

(Enterprise Mobilization)

Beneficiary Selection survey should be conducted

in pre-identified locations in all project targeted

provinces

Beneficiary selection

survey is completed

10 To develop database for uploading beneficiary

selection checklist (Enterprise Mobilization)

A comprehensive data base will be developed by

MIS team in accordance to the needs of the RED

project Beneficiary selection checklist.

Database is developed

and launched

Done

Done

Done

Done

Done

Done

Done

in progress 90% of the work is

done so far

Done

Done

Objective Activity Description Output (Target for 2017)

Project Development Objective (PDO) : Broad-based economic growth for returned families in carpet sector

S.No 2017

July August September

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11+A25:P33To conduct orientation to the field staff on

beneficiary selection check list, and on how to

use beneficiary database (Enterprise

Mobilization)

The team would travel to the field offices and

conduct orientation to the staff as per the

requirement of the RED project and AREDP

program

Orientation is coducted

and the team is capable to

use the BSF and the

databse for data upload

12 To generate analytical narrative report from the

data collected from beneficiary selection

process (Enterprise Mobilization)

The project manager should generate the report

from the database once the data entery process

completed

Report is generated and

submitted to the

managemetn

13 To coordinate with HR for RED project staff

recruitment

The HR is closely followed up for recuitment

process of the staff in all project target areas

Required number of staff

is recruited and on-

boarded

14 To coordinate with SME, IT, ESS,

Communication, administration Units and

prepare the budget utilization Plan (Capacity

Building)

The RED project budget has got different section

budget related to SME, IT, ESS, communication and

administration Units, thus the project manager will

coordinate and finalize the budget utilization plan

Budget utilization plan is

prepared and submitted

to the management

15 To conduct Practical test for ID-Card distribution

to the Beneficiaries (Enterprise Mobilization)

The RED project team will coordinate with ACEG

and would prepare required materials to conduct a

practical test on ground for all pre-identified

beneficiaries

5000 selected

beneficiaries have

recevied ID-Cards and

they are qualified to the

next process of the project

planned interventions

16 To prepare the process note to handover the

carpet looms (Business Development)

The project team should prepare a detialed

process note while handing over the carpet looms

to the beneficiaries

Process note is prepared

and finalised

17 To catagorize the trainings needs and conduct

training to the beneficiaries (Capacity Building)

RED project staff will coordinate with SME unit and

will finalize the plan for training in different

section of the carpet value chain

Trainings are catagorized

and conducted to the

beneficiaries

18 To Conduct Monitoring & Evaluation AREDP project monitoring and evaluation unit will

thoroughly conduct the M&E visits in all target

areas and cooperate

Activities are monitored

and the progress is tracked

as per the project

implementation plan

19 To prepare Project Reports The RED project management staff will update the

management on project progress through a brief

project updating matrix and will prepare its final

report when the project is ended

Project progress and final

report is prepared and

submitted to the

management

In progress

In progress trainings are being regularly monitored

In progress, and so far 80% of the

recruitment is done

Done

Done

90% is completed

Done

Done

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Annex.2. Details of the beneficiary selection survey in targeted provinces.

Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female

1 General Total number of beneficiaries 203 231 236 264 60 440 83 883 277 223 419 581 250 236 1,528 2,858 4,386

2 Pakistan 201 230 166 129 12 176 83 883 277 223 419 581 250 233 1,408 2,455 3,863

3 Iran - - 65 133 48 261 - - - - - - - 1 113 395 508

4 Any other 2 1 5 2 - 3 - - - - - - - 2 7 8 15

5 Spouses 144 128 173 178 43 359 117 847 146 42 268 70 142 77 1,033 1,701 2,734

6 Children 357 350 366 330 750 717 1,533 1,415 475 493 949 829 374 385 4,804 4,519 9,323

7 Children ages less than six years 101 112 72 54 206 203 445 422 143 142 441 366 154 141 1,562 1,440 3,002

8 Children ages between 6-14 years 143 137 152 147 309 312 561 612 211 242 425 361 119 141 1,920 1,952 3,872

9 Literate 51 22 92 59 211 94 19 9 31 9 24 10 63 58 491 261 752

10 Literacy learners 6 3 94 99 35 41 28 20 39 12 77 20 87 64 366 259 625

11 Lower than high school 60 37 194 153 141 148 113 35 125 101 260 161 42 62 935 697 1,632

12 Illiterate 159 179 67 43 697 450 1,368 656 105 262 110 461 67 140 2,573 2,191 4,764

13 None 209 253 97 149 25 27 852 812 217 255 548 445 192 203 2,140 2,144 4,284

14 Yarn - - 34 1 7 131 2 30 - - - - - - 43 162 205

15 Thread spining - - 91 72 1 111 4 40 16 84 4 16 - - 116 323 439

16 Dyeing - - - 2 - 1 8 29 1 1 - 1 - - 9 34 43

17 Carpet weaving tools - 1 91 116 6 8 2 13 8 11 7 10 - 1 114 160 274

18 Design - - 1 5 - 1 4 12 31 10 1 2 - - 37 30 67

19 Carpet weaving 203 228 57 65 39 202 70 773 242 116 395 539 249 235 1,255 2,158 3,413

20 Cutting and washing - - 4 4 - 1 2 5 - 4 4 - - - 10 14 24

21 Export/Import - - - - 7 1 - 1 - - - - - - 7 2 9

22 Training services - - - - - - 1 5 - - - - - - 1 5 6

23 Total monthly income (Afn) of beneficiries 888,300 1,314,500 1,185,400 1,470,300 337,600 536,089 627,000 4,571,000 1,645,300 1,202,300 3,087,000 3,746,800 772,500 885,193 8,543,100 13,726,182 22,269,282

24 Average monthly income per beneficiary (Afn) 4,376 5,690 5,023 5,569 5,627 1,218 7,554 5,177 5,940 5,391 7,368 6,449 3,090 3,751 5,591 4,803 5,077

25 Private Trade - - 60 38 9 8 41 362 3 4 2 - - - 115 412 527

26 Jobs:(Employed- works for others) 20 6 171 224 29 342 44 519 108 59 234 321 98 1 704 1,472 2,176

27 Daily wage labour 1 1 2 2 4 5 2 - 166 160 182 256 - 3 357 427 784

28 Basic tools to weave carpet - - 114 169 5 18 1 1 86 63 410 553 7 9 623 813 1,436

29 Fixed assets 202 221 4 - 18 257 1 1 195 104 220 333 248 234 888 1,150 2,038

30 Use bill boards/banners for promotion/marketing - - - 2 - 1 - - 1 - - 4 - - 1 7 8

31 Know about carpet buyers/ markets - - 5 - 9 9 20 128 - 1 1 - - - 35 138 173

32 Have visited carpet markets - - 4 - 10 8 21 153 1 3 1 - - - 37 164 201

33 Have problem in visiting markets - - 223 212 14 118 10 96 30 23 1 - 1 2 279 451 730

34 Use transportation means to visit market - - 10 114 9 20 20 153 32 23 - 2 - 1 71 313 384

35 Business plan 203 231 236 264 60 440 83 883 277 223 419 581 250 236 1,528 2,858 4,386

36 Marketing and selling skills 203 231 236 264 60 440 83 883 277 223 419 581 250 236 1,528 2,858 4,386

37 Bookkeeping and accounting skills 203 231 236 264 60 440 83 883 277 223 419 581 250 236 1,528 2,858 4,386

38 In cash - - 1 1 - 1 - - 1 - - - - - 2 2 4

39 In kind 1 - 226 153 - - - - 1 1 42 29 4 - 274 183 457

40 Any other 101 196 5 1 - - - - 113 161 228 309 232 230 679 897 1,576

41 GoIRA ministries - - - - - - - - 102 54 205 248 - - 307 302 609

42 International donors - - 5 49 1 1 - - 33 1 47 76 - - 86 127 213

43 International NGOs - - 6 1 53 398 - - 83 50 9 19 - - 151 468 619

44 National NGOs - - - - - 5 - - - 1 - 3 - - - 9 9

45 Local Organizations - - - 2 - 21 - - - - 24 24 - 3 24 50 74

46

Received techinical

trainings in carpet sector Number of beneficiaries 203 230 433 21 - 4 - - 214 105 345 475 247 236 1,442 1,071 2,513

47 Needed trainings in

carpet sector Number of beneficiaries 24 32 235 245 42 398 80 860 256 213 415 572 2 139 1,054 2,459 3,513

Nangarhar ParwanTotalTotal male Total femaleIndicatorSN Intervention

Baghlan Balkh Herat Kabul

Number of family

members

Laghman

Number of beneficiaries

who have work

experience in carpet

value chain

Number of beneficiaries

who have carpet products

/ business assets

Number of beneficiaries

who have sources of

income from carpet

Number of beneficiaries

returned from

Number of

literates/illeterates in

beneficiaries families

Market accessibility;

Number of beneficiaries

who

Business and marketing

skills; Number of

beneficiaries who have

Number of beneficiaries

who will contribute for

the development of his

business if support

provided

Number of beneficiaries

who have received

support from