Organization for Research and Community Development (ORCD) – a certi‐ fied CSO of AICS – has been making the difference in the lives of the local Afghan communities since its inception in 2011. Passing thought various phases of institutional history of over six years, the organization has imple‐ mented a variety of community development projects in field of education, health, rural development, women empowerment and agriculture.
Till 2016, ORCD operated in six major provinces i.e. Baghlan, Nangarhar, Ghazni, Paktika, Kunar, Laghman. The organization activities were mainly concentrated on building capacities of local communities through formal and informal trainings, generating and promoting evidence‐based best practices and implementing humanitarian and development projects on women empowerment, social integration, health and nutrition, refugees and rural development at the grass root level.
On the onset of 2016, ORCD had both technical and operational capacity of handling $ 2.6m dollars budget. However, with the AICS “seal of good house‐keeping” and credibility, the organization managed to secure a project on basic health services from World Bank during the 2016. Thereafter, with the financial support from UNOCHA, UNODC and UNWOMEN, the current financial portfolio has now been surged around four‐folds making it approximately $ 8.24m dollars which cumulatively serv‐ ing a population of over eight hundred thousand persons by expanding it services in ten provinces of Afghanistan.
ORCD achieved organizational excellence by establishing robust managerial functions and decentralizing operational components into specialized de‐ partments. Both finance and human resource departments have now been segregated with their assigned functions and with clear delineation of au‐ thority. ORCD’s human resources are now being managed using latest ap‐ proaches in human resource management. The department has institutionalized transparent recruitment processes, employee benefits, and other matters pertaining to employees’ satisfaction, professional de‐ velopment and growth.
