Partners and Collaboration

ACRU works with donors, UN agencies, international NGOs, government institutions, local authorities, civil society organizations, and communities to deliver humanitarian and development assistance.

Partnership Approach

Trust, transparency and shared responsibility.

ACRU's partnership approach is built on trust, transparency, compliance, coordination, local knowledge, community access, shared responsibility, and results-based implementation. The organization understands that effective humanitarian and development programs require clear roles, realistic planning, strong communication, and respect for donor standards and community priorities. Partnership is not only a contractual relationship. It is a way of combining resources, technical expertise, local knowledge, and accountability systems to support vulnerable communities.

As a national NGO, ACRU brings community roots, field experience, and contextual understanding. International partners often bring technical resources, funding, global standards, and coordination linkages. When these strengths are combined responsibly, programs can become more responsive, more accountable, and better adapted to the Afghan context. ACRU values partnerships that are based on mutual respect, realistic expectations, and a shared commitment to principled humanitarian action.

ACRU also recognizes the importance of compliance. Donors and partners need confidence that projects will be implemented according to approved budgets, work plans, procurement rules, reporting requirements, safeguarding standards, and monitoring expectations. ACRU's internal systems are designed to support responsible implementation and continuous improvement.

Donor and Partner Experience

Organizations and institutions connected to ACRU's experience.

ACRU has experience with projects, proposals, coordination, or partnerships involving these donors and institutions, depending on project context and period.

WFP

UNDP

IOM

FAO

Embassy of Japan

Japan Platform / Peace Winds Japan

Local Authorities

Community Structures

Civil Society

UN Coordination

Humanitarian Partners

Why Partner With ACRU

National capacity for accountable field implementation.

ACRU offers the experience of a long-standing Afghan humanitarian organization with multi-sector programming capacity and a commitment to community-based implementation.

Decades of Local Experience

Established in 1991, ACRU has worked through changing contexts and maintains a practical understanding of community needs, access, and coordination requirements.

Community Access

ACRU works through consultation, local coordination, field teams, and community communication to support safe and relevant assistance.

Multi-sector Capacity

The organization works across WASH, food security, livelihoods, shelter, education, protection, infrastructure, and emergency response.

Accountability Systems

ACRU promotes feedback, complaint channels, monitoring, transparent communication, PSEA, safeguarding, and protection-sensitive programming.

Field Presence

ACRU is headquartered in Kabul and has experience in provinces including Herat, Khost, Logar, Nangarhar, Paktia, and other project-based areas.

Technical and Operational Staff

Programs, finance, procurement, logistics, MEAL, safeguarding, and field operations functions support project delivery and compliance.

Humanitarian Principles

ACRU's non-political and non-profit mandate supports impartial, community-focused, and dignity-centered assistance.

Donor Reporting Capacity

Project documentation, monitoring, financial controls, and reporting are part of ACRU's approach to responsible partnership.

Partnership Opportunities

Areas for collaboration.

ACRU welcomes partnership opportunities in humanitarian response, WASH, food security and livelihoods, shelter and NFI, protection, PSEA and AAP, education and capacity building, community infrastructure, research, assessments and monitoring, vocational training, and women and youth empowerment. Collaboration may include direct implementation, consortium participation, proposal development, field assessments, monitoring support, community engagement, technical coordination, or project-specific capacity building.

Humanitarian response partnerships may focus on rapid needs assessment, emergency distributions, returnee and IDP support, winterization, WASH response, shelter assistance, and protection-sensitive referral communication. Development and resilience partnerships may focus on livelihoods, irrigation, flood protection, community infrastructure, vocational training, enterprise development, women's participation, youth skills, and community-led recovery.

ACRU is also open to collaboration on research, assessments, and monitoring. Local organizations can contribute valuable field access and contextual understanding to studies, needs assessments, post-distribution monitoring, accountability reviews, and learning exercises. Such work should be designed ethically, with responsible data handling, community consent where appropriate, and clear use of findings.

Partner with ACRU to support vulnerable communities in Afghanistan.

ACRU welcomes serious partnership discussions with donors, UN agencies, INGOs, government institutions, civil society organizations, and technical partners committed to accountable, protection-sensitive, and community-based programming.

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