For ADWRo, the key foundation of all advocacy work is grassroots community involvement. It is only by involving communities and people affected by the issues themselves, and empowering them and increasing their capacity to act and advocate for themselves, that change can really take place. It is this grassroots work that gives advocacy actions their credibility, and which makes achieving advocacy aims more likely.

The primary aim of The Advocacy Sourcebook is to assist ADWRo’s staff and partner organizations in drawing up advocacy action plans that aim to improve the situation of women in Afghanistan. However, the Advocacy Sourcebook is written and structured so as to be useful to any individual, group or organization seeking to carry out advocacy work on their own issues in Afghanistan.

Since its establishment ADWRO has implemented several projects with financial support of international donors. The institution has carried out programs andprojects targeting both male and female. Legal assistance to women, TV round tables engaging Ulemas and Human Rights activists, women rights legal literacy for more than 3000 School Teachers, School Students, and Mullahs/Religious Leaders, in order to reduce range of violence against women in three provinces of north – Samangan, Sar-i-Pul and Balkh – have remained from the major activities under this sector.

To have the voice of women heard, ADWRO has carried out additional advocacy initiatives as; establishment of the first radio station for women in partnership with IMPACS (Radio Rabia Balkhi) ,advocating at the government level for policy change in terms of women victims of violence, networking with several right-based organizations for women legal and social protection in Balkh and Samangan. Being an active member of PWG, (Protection Working Group) of different national (AIHRC and Women organizations) and international (UNAMA, UNHCR) organizations for the protection issues, the organization has further  re-employed  150 female school redundant teachers of under the Ministry of Education back to their schools. ADWRO conducted the first round of provincial conference to support implementation of NAPWA in north region under advocacy initiative.