Mediothek Afghanistan

Name

Mediothek Afghanistan

Legal name

Mediothek Afghanistan

Website

https://mediothek-afghanistan.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Mediothek Afghanistan is a German-founded non-profit operating across Afghanistan since 1995, delivering peace-building, media development, and humanitarian aid programs through five regional offices and nationwide youth and journalist networks.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian and Peace-Building Services

NAICS

Social Assistance (624), Community Food Services (624210), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming (BPADAEAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

International & Local Implementing NGOs (HLAJAKAD), Affordable Housing & Community Development (Housing, Community Land Trusts) (BPAGALAC)

Keywords

• Community development programs
• Peace building initiatives
• Humanitarian aid distribution
• Journalism training
• Youth engagement networks

Headquarters

HQ city

Kabul

HQ country

Afghanistan

HQ region

Asia

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. International Development Funding: Mediothek Afghanistan relies on funding from international donors, governments, and foundations to sustain its operations and programs. Major donors include various embassies, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, USAID, UNHCR, and international and national Afghan NGOs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Mediothek Afghanistan is a non-profit humanitarian and development organization that runs community-based peace building, media development, and humanitarian assistance programs. It operates physical community centers across Afghan provinces to deliver training, youth engagement, civil society strengthening, and food/cash relief to vulnerable populations, funded primarily by international donors.

Product overview

Mediothek Afghanistan is a non-profit humanitarian and development organization founded in Germany in 1993, operating within Afghanistan since 1995. The organization has a double mandate combining community building and media development with humanitarian assistance. It maintains a decentralized structure with five regional offices in Kabul, Mazar-e Sharif, Kunduz, Jalalabad, and Khost. The organization's portfolio includes the Mediothek Youth Network (MYN) for nationwide youth engagement, the Eco Journalists Network for environmental journalism training, the Youth & Peace Program for peace-building, Community Centers across multiple provinces, a Publishing Center, Peace Forum events, Humanitarian Aid Distribution, the Nai o Nawa media platform, and an annual Summer Academy for journalist training. The organization works with a network of professionals and volunteers across the country.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Mediothek Youth Network (MYN): A well-trained network of professionals and volunteers across Afghanistan working on youth engagement and peace building.
• Youth & Peace

Products and services

• Community Centers Physical community centers operating in six Afghan provinces, providing spaces for community gatherings, media activities, training, and civil society engagement for local populations.
• Mediothek Youth Network (MYN)

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• The Liaison Office (TLO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in environmental journalism training programs and media development initiatives across multiple provinces including Kunduz, Balkh, and Laghman.
• The Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSupports Eco-Journalists Network activities and peace building programs in Afghanistan.
• DW Deutsche Welle AcademycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Mediothek Afghanistan to organize the Election Reporting workshop for journalists in 2013, providing professional training assistance.
• Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) AfghanistancoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint organizer of peace forums including Kandahar Forum for Peace and other provincial peace forums across Afghanistan.
• Afghanistan Public Policy Research Organization (APPRO)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organized Kandahar Forum for Peace with FES and Mediothek Afghanistan.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• The Liaison Office (TLO): TLO is an Afghan civil society organization working on peace, media, and governance, and is a direct operational partner of Mediothek on environmental journalism training and peace forums across multiple provinces.
• Relief International: Relief International is a humanitarian and development organization operating extensively in Afghanistan with programs in food security, livelihoods, and civil society — a close operational peer to Mediothek's humanitarian and community-building work.
• AfghanAid: AfghanAid is a UK-based development NGO with decades of operation in Afghanistan focused on livelihoods, education, and women's empowerment, directly comparable to Mediothek's community development and humanitarian mandate.
• Search for Common Ground: Search for Common Ground runs peace-building programs worldwide including Afghanistan, focusing on conflict transformation and civil society engagement — directly comparable to Mediothek's peace forum and youth peace-building activities.
• Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU): AREU is an Afghan research and policy organization focused on development, governance, and peace issues, with overlapping thematic work on civil society, peace-building, and policy research in Afghanistan.

Broad incumbents

• International Alert: International Alert is a leading global peacebuilding NGO with programs supporting local partners in fragile states, comparable to Mediothek's peace and civil society work though operating at a global scale.
• Counterpart International: Counterpart International has long-standing operations in Afghanistan supporting civil society, media, and governance, directly comparable to Mediothek's media development and community cohesion programs.
• Aga Khan Foundation Afghanistan: Aga Khan Foundation operates major rural development, education, and civil society programs across Afghanistan, comparable to Mediothek's community-building work though at significantly larger institutional scale.
• CARE International Afghanistan: CARE is a large international humanitarian organization with substantial Afghanistan operations focused on women's empowerment, food security, and emergency response, comparable in mission though significantly larger in scale.
• DW Akademie (Deutsche Welle): DW Akademie runs international media development programs including in Afghanistan, and has directly partnered with Mediothek on journalism training workshops — a comparable media development mandate at much larger scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/nainawa.mediothek
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mediothek-afghanistan

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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