Promoting Gender Equality in National Priority Programs (PROMOTE)

The purpose of PROMOTE is to overcome obstacles and provide opportunities that enable educated Afghan women to enter and advance within mainstream social, political and economic sectors such that women are able to assume decision making and leadership roles at all levels that will improve the status of women and accelerate inclusive, sustainable development and social progress in Afghanistan.
PROMOTE includes four distinct yet related Components:
Component 1: Women in the Economy (WE)Component
2: Women's Rights Groups and Coalitions (WRGC)Component
3: Women in Government (WIG)Component
4: Women's Leadership Development (WLD)

Taken together, the PROMOTE Components will develop a coordinated effort that lays out a systematic intervention for women's inclusion and empowerment in the political, economic and social spheres. PROMOTE will initially focus on the more than 200,000 educated middle class women-beneficiaries of the last decade of support for education and social programs-as the key target group for investment.