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This 18-month project (Jan 2026–June 2027) empowers Afghan youth and women—especially those forcibly returned from Iran and Pakistan—by strengthening civic participation, livelihoods, and access to civil documentation in Herat. As a hub for returnees, Herat hosts thousands excluded from services, jobs, and society. The project establishes a Youth Resilience Hub: a safe space for civic education, eco-farming, micro-business training, digital tools, and legal assistance for documentation such as Tazkira, passports, school certificates, marriage/divorce papers, and property claims. Participants receive help with paperwork, follow-up, and mobile legal clinics. Hub-based delivery ensures safe participation for women. Activities are peer-led, co-designed with returnees, and supported by diaspora mentoring. The project strengthens rights, access, and agency, with effects of civic education, legal empowerment, and livelihoods lasting far beyond the project.