Pilot
Start with an achievable cohort, test delivery safeguards and document what works in context.
Five-year strategic vision · Proposed
Building a pathway to accountable social protection in Afghanistan.
Suraya Foundation aims to develop and test an evidence-led, electronically enabled social-protection model for vulnerable Afghan families — beginning with children and widowed mothers, and building through five responsible phases over five years.
Legal form
UK Foundation CIO
Registered charity
No. 1194751
Strategic approach
Pilot · Evidence · Collaborate · Scale
Our role
A credible pathway, not a claim of authority
Suraya Foundation is not a government and is not currently operating a national Universal Credit system. A national social-security system would require competent authorities, international institutions and implementation partners.
Evidence
Measure outcomes, costs, payment reliability and safeguarding without overstating early findings.
Collaborate
Invite technical scrutiny and responsible cooperation from institutions with relevant expertise.
Five-year strategic sequence
Five phases, each earned by evidence
- Year 1 · Proposed01
Foundation & Vulnerable Families
Feasibility, governance, safeguarding, beneficiary criteria, technology architecture and an achievable initial pilot for vulnerable widowed mothers raising dependent children without adequate household income.
- Year 2 · Proposed02
Evidence & Expansion
Commission independent evaluation, refine eligibility, strengthen fraud and data controls, and expand geographically and to additional eligible vulnerable households where consistent with the charitable objects.
- Year 3 · Proposed03
Integrated Digital Social Protection
Develop a mature registry, secure verification, interoperable payment rails, case review, grievance and appeal mechanisms, audit trails, monitoring dashboards and responsible data governance.
- Year 4 · Proposed04
Institutional Partnership & Scale
Pursue structured cooperation with multilateral agencies, donors, researchers, NGOs, financial-inclusion partners and, where appropriate and lawful, relevant Afghan institutions.
- Year 5 · Proposed05
Evidence & Transition Pathway
Publish evidence, costings, governance model and a technology blueprint that could inform a larger Afghan social-protection framework. National adoption remains for competent authorities and institutional partners.
Proposed programme
Support designed around household dignity and accountability
The proposed pilot combines predictable support with clear eligibility, responsible payments, safeguarding, review and measurable outcomes.
Proposed
Initial humanitarian priority
Vulnerable widowed mothers whose husbands died through war or conflict and who are raising dependent children without adequate household income.
No results yet
Outcomes to measure
Food security, education participation, accommodation stability, welfare, resilience, payment reliability, safeguarding and cost per household.
Evidence before expansion
No impact numbers are presented because a pilot has not yet produced evaluated results. Future reporting should separate targets, delivery data and independently assessed outcomes.
Responsible collaboration