Rural Movement Organization (RMO), national NGO, based in Afghanistan, was established in 2008 and officially registered in 2014. RMO programs aim to make measurable and sustainable improvement in rural communities and resource utilization through instruction and skills improvement in agriculture, education, vocational, community social structure empowerment and food security.
RMO is established by a group of technical staff who worked for years in Solidarity Afghanistan Belgique (SAB). They have experience in providing humanitarian assistance through management and implementation of various projects for vulnerable people around Afghanistan.
The idea was created by SAB board and Afghan staff in 2008 to build Afghans capability and its management capacity to take over the responsibly and authorities of running all humanitarian and development programs by their own. Therefore; most of the autonomy has been transferred to Afghans staff to manage SAB programs in country wide. For better organizing of activities it is decided by SAB board to manage all programmers through establishment of a national NGO. To do so, national staff started the process of building a national NGO. Eventually the national RMO was created and officially registered in Ministry of Economy of Afghanistan. Hereinafter; RMO will continue to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan.
Based on national expert skills, RMO will continue to work for the following specialized field:
These programs were originally set up in the refugee camps in Peshawar area in Pakistan by SAB. Since 1992 have gradually moved into Afghanistan with the return of many Afghans to their homeland. Following the events of September 2001 and the progressive implementation of governmental infrastructures internationally recognized, SAB have concentrated on promoting the socio-economic empowerment of the most disadvantaged segments of the population, targeting women and men through Vocational Training/Income Generation, Agriculture/Livelihoods, and Education projects. Since 2002, SAB has implemented more than 25 VT & Agricultural training projects in 11 provinces: Bamyan, Kabul, Kapisa, Kunar, Laghman, Logar, Nangarhar, Nooristan, Parwan, Panjshir, and Wardak. SAB has trained more than 19,000 beneficiaries since 1992.
The objective of establishing RMO is to lead the activities through a national NGO by national technical staffs who obtained a rich experience in above fields through working for many years in SAB. They believe that providing services through a national NGO is much more reliable and accessible in national wide.
RMO VISION AND MISSION
RMO Philosophy: RMO philosophy is that sustainable improvement in rural communities and resource utilization through instruction and skills improvement and also social and economic development of a population, based on some strong principle.
Mobilizing the population: encourages the beneficiaries to be the actors of their development. RMO with its projects wants to give to Afghan people the means to choose their future.
Empowerment of local staff: RMO board and executive staff is organized from afghan experts that make one of the pillars of RMO.
Local projects: RMO first wants to understand the local context before developing a project to best answer to the local needs and national policies.
Gender: Women are in extremely vulnerable positions within the community and household, particularly the disable once. All RMO project take into account women needs and offer training activities to develop women empowerment, minimum 35% of project beneficiaries are women.
Disability: Individually RMO constantly take into consideration disable people requirements, this means targeting persons of disabilities difficult through their projects. They benefit from training that the disability does not prevent the person working in the training.
RMO Board is made up of 5 members of whom 1 are core members, all are volunteers. It meets 12 times/year. The Board leads RMO’s overall policy, to which country staff contribute through its General Director. The organization runs by an Executive Director
RMO support departments
RMO staff has acquired extensive experience working with different donors for the past years through SAB. It has procedures in place to ensure transparency and accountability.
RMO staff has exercises control over procurement and stocks by using an advanced accounting and stock management database. RMO continuously seeks to improve its financial competencies by reviewing and upgrading its procedures, software programs and the human resources’ skills of its Finance and Administrative departments.
