COAR - Citizens Organization for Advocacy and Resilience (formally Coordination of Afghan Relief)

Citizens' Organization for Advocacy & Resilience  - COAR is an Afghan, independent, non-political, non-sectarian, non-for profit organization established in 1989 in response to the needs of delivering humanitarian assistance to Afghans during prevailing conflicting context of Afghanistan. In spite prevailed tense situation in country, COAR has developed a long-term strategy of delivering humanitarian aids to Afghans although existing many funding challenges. During different period of outstanding internal conflict, COAR has maintained the access of beneficiaries to basic services with using the main humanitarian principles of Independence, Neutrality and Impartiality in practice. COAR is register with Ministry of Economy as legal entity and other sector authorities such as the Ministry of Women Affairs, the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Higher education the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock and etc.

Initially COAR was operating as cross-border organization providing emergency relief in both sides Afghans in Pakistan and Afghanistan and considered as a biggest local organization operating in Afghanistan.

With using the field tested lessons from the past, COAR has built its capacity according to the needs and added various values in term of project operation and management.

Currently COAR is widely involved in both semi-emergency and development activities such as Disaster Risk Reduction Management response, agriculture, livestock, health, infrastructural engineering, formal and informal education, vocational training, Media evaluation & monitoring, emergency shelter plus CSOs supporting programs and etc. In result of implementation of numerous projects in each sector, COAR has gained significant experiences in each field and built the capacity of its staff on each level of management.

COAR’s sector-wise intervention has been adjusted in compliance with COAR-Network Strategic plan (2012-2017).