KABUL (SW): The Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission (IARCC) signed 5 years contract with Chemonics International for training 3000 women.
Ahmad Moshahed, Head of IARCC, said on the occasion on Wednesday that women between the age of 18 and 30 who are at least high-school graduates, will be included in this training programs that will be held in Civil Servants Institution.
He added that implementation of this program would soon begin to bring women back to work in civil service.
Meanwhile, Mina Sherzoy, Head of Women Training Project, said on behalf of Chemonics International that the women in this program would be trained for a 10-month period. She said that the project would cost $ 38 million. Those who attend the 10-month training program will later serve in the government institutions in Afghanistan, she promised.
Humaira Saqeb, a woman rights activist, told SW that lack of women’s presence in government institutions has concerned women’s rights activists. She said that such training programs would pave the way for women to step-up and prove their presence worthy in the government institutions.
The Afghan government has promised to increase women’s presence by 30% by the end of 2015.
IARCC’s Officials said that women’s presence has reached to the level where it was promised and the efforts for further increase in their presence in the government institutions would continue.
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