ACRU has implemented and contributed to humanitarian and development interventions with support from different donors and partners. Its experience includes emergency assistance, food security, WASH, livelihoods, infrastructure rehabilitation, vocational training, and community-based resilience.
The summaries below present known experience carefully. Where detailed public project information is limited, ACRU uses general professional wording and avoids overstating scope, outputs, or funding beyond available information.
ACRU has experience with WFP-related food assistance and resilience-building work, including Field Level Agreement experience in Logar. Known examples include prior WFP projects in Logar in 2022: Field Level Agreement - Azra, completed 2022, and Field Level Agreement - Baraki, completed 2022.
ACRU implemented vocational training activities in Khost from 15 October 2023 to 14 April 2024 with a project value of USD 50,000. The project supported 65 trainees across mobile repair, house wiring, and tailoring, including male and female participants.
ACRU has experience in EU-supported humanitarian assistance for IDPs and returnees in Nangarhar, including support to vulnerable communities affected by displacement and return. This work reflects ACRU's broader capacity in vulnerability-based assistance and community coordination.
Historical project experience includes a training center in Jalalabad in 2005 with a project value of USD 341,786; a vocational center in 2007 with a project value of USD 528,044; and Bar Kashkoot School in 2006 with a project value of USD 89,943.
ACRU prepares and implements WASH and Shelter/NFI-related interventions, including support for returnees and vulnerable households, based on donor calls, terms of reference, and local needs. Activities may include needs assessment, assistance planning, distribution support, and accountability.
The WFP resilience example in Zabul includes the Resilience-Building Programme for Flood-Prone Areas in Qalat and Shamul Zayi Districts. Sites included Tunek Riverbank Protection at Qala and Shamul Zayi Bazaar flood protection works.
ACRU has developed concepts and proposals focused on women's leadership, capacity building, mentorship, advocacy, community engagement, and skills development. Such work supports inclusive recovery and expands participation in local development processes.
ACRU's infrastructure work includes protection walls, irrigation rehabilitation, water-related structures, community assets, access routes, and flood mitigation works. Infrastructure is approached as a pathway to safety, service access, and livelihood recovery.
ACRU's field implementation capacity includes monitoring, beneficiary registration, distribution planning, community communication, complaint and feedback handling, and post-distribution monitoring where required by donor-funded activities.
ACRU's WFP-related experience includes food assistance, Field Level Agreement implementation, resilience-building projects, Cash-Based Transfer programming where applicable, community infrastructure and food security support, monitoring, beneficiary registration, distribution planning, and accountability. Food security programming in Afghanistan requires careful coordination because households may be affected by poverty, displacement, climate shocks, market disruption, and limited livelihood opportunities at the same time.
Known examples include prior WFP projects in Logar in 2022: Field Level Agreement - Azra, completed 2022, and Field Level Agreement - Baraki, completed 2022. These examples demonstrate experience with field-level implementation in a province where community access, local coordination, vulnerability identification, and distribution planning are important to program quality. ACRU's role in such programming is to support practical delivery, community communication, and accountable assistance according to agreed project requirements.
Food assistance and resilience projects require systems that communities can understand. Beneficiaries need information about eligibility, registration, distribution timing, entitlements, complaint channels, and follow-up. Field teams need to manage lists, verify participants, coordinate sites, monitor activities, record issues, and report results. ACRU's local knowledge supports this work, while donor compliance and documentation remain essential to maintain trust and quality.
ACRU implemented vocational training activities in Khost from 15 October 2023 to 14 April 2024 with a project value of USD 50,000. The project supported 65 trainees across mobile repair, house wiring, and tailoring, including male and female participants. Vocational training is a practical approach for supporting livelihoods recovery because it can help participants develop skills that may lead to employment, self-employment, or income generation.
Effective vocational training depends on more than classroom instruction. It requires participant selection, clear training schedules, attendance monitoring, practical exercises, quality trainers, community acceptance, and attention to safety and inclusion. For women and youth, training can create opportunities that may otherwise be limited by social, economic, or geographic barriers. Tailoring, house wiring, and mobile repair represent different skill pathways that can contribute to household income and community services.
ACRU's experience in this area supports broader livelihoods and capacity-building programming. Skills development is most useful when linked with market demand, tool access where appropriate, business awareness, mentoring, and follow-up. ACRU recognizes that training outcomes vary depending on local economic conditions, participant circumstances, and project scope, so the organization uses careful language and avoids overstating guaranteed employment results.
ACRU has experience in EU-supported humanitarian assistance for IDPs and returnees in Nangarhar, including support to vulnerable communities affected by displacement and return. Returnees and internally displaced persons often need integrated assistance because their needs can include shelter, WASH, food security, protection, documentation information, livelihoods, community acceptance, and access to services. ACRU's multi-sector capacity allows it to contribute to such responses in a coordinated and community-based manner.
ACRU also prepares and implements WASH and Shelter/NFI-related interventions, including support for returnees and vulnerable households, based on donor calls, terms of reference, and local needs. IOM-related WASH and SNFI programming may involve needs assessment, vulnerability verification, assistance planning, distribution support, hygiene promotion, feedback handling, and reporting. The exact design of each intervention depends on the donor scope, location, available resources, and coordination requirements.
In humanitarian response, ACRU aims to support assistance that is timely, dignified, and accountable. This requires staff who understand field operations, community communication, warehouse and logistics processes, procurement controls, distribution site management, safeguarding, and monitoring. It also requires sensitivity to the challenges faced by families who may have experienced repeated displacement, asset loss, separation from support networks, and uncertainty about the future.
ACRU's infrastructure experience includes community protection walls, irrigation rehabilitation, water-related structures, community assets, and flood mitigation works. One example is the Resilience-Building Programme for Flood-Prone Areas in Qalat and Shamul Zayi Districts, Zabul Province. This example includes Tunek Riverbank Protection at Qala, consisting of a 200 m stone masonry wall, and Shamul Zayi Bazaar, consisting of a 250 m flood protection wall with two culverts.
The reported beneficiary reach for this example includes 591 direct beneficiaries and 4,140 indirect beneficiaries. These figures are presented as part of the specific known project example. Flood protection works can reduce repeated damage to homes, market areas, agricultural land, access routes, and community assets. When infrastructure protects livelihoods and public spaces, it can contribute to resilience by reducing the frequency and severity of losses after seasonal floods.
Technical capability in such work includes community consultation, site identification, construction planning, procurement, quality supervision, safety awareness, and reporting. ACRU avoids presenting highly technical engineering detail on this website, but the organization recognizes that infrastructure projects require qualified technical oversight, environmental and social safeguards, and coordination with communities and local stakeholders.
ACRU has developed concepts and proposals focused on women's leadership, capacity building, mentorship, advocacy, community engagement, and skills development. In Afghanistan, women and youth often face barriers to education, income generation, participation, safety, and access to services. Inclusive programming must therefore be designed with attention to community acceptance, safe participation, cultural context, protection risks, and practical support.
Community empowerment can take many forms. It may include vocational training, leadership sessions, civic education, awareness-raising, mentoring, small enterprise support, community dialogue, skills development, or support to community structures. ACRU's approach is to create opportunities that strengthen confidence, practical knowledge, and participation while respecting local context and donor scope.
For ACRU, empowerment is connected to accountability. Communities should not be passive recipients of assistance. They should be consulted, informed, respected, and able to provide feedback. Women, youth, elderly persons, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups should have meaningful opportunities to shape programs that affect them. This approach strengthens program relevance and supports more dignified humanitarian and development work.