Afghanistan's Anti-Corruption Efforts: The Afghan Government Has Begun to Implement an Anti-Corruption Strategy, but Significant Problems Must Be Addressed
Abstract
At the Brussels Conference in October 2016, the Afghan government committed to developing and implementing new national-level anti-corruption policies in 2017 through the revised Self-Reliance through Mutual Accountability Framework (SMAF). Specifically, (1) the High Council on Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption (High Council) was to produce and endorse a whole of government anticorruption strategy in the first half of 2017; (2) the Afghan government was to initiate this strategy in the second half of 2017; and (3) the Ministries of Finance (MOF), Mines and Petroleum, Commerce and Industries, Communications and Information Technology, and Transport and Civil Aviation were to publicly report on their progress implementing anti-corruption action plans in 2017. SIGAR conducted this audit in accordance with theexplanatory statement of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, which directed SIGAR to assess the implementation of the Afghangovernments national anti-corruption strategy and the five ministries action plans. The objectives of this audit were to determine the extent to which the Afghan government: (1) met the anti-corruption deliverables it agreed to under the SMAF; (2) created an anti-corruption strategythat meets international anti-corruption strategy standards and best practices; (3) is implementing its anti-corruption commitments in the anticorruption strategy and benchmarks; and (4) has made progress or experienced challenges implementing anti-corruption reforms. In this report, we are offering six matters for consideration to the Afghan Government. Recognizing the importance of Afghanistans anticorruption efforts, Congress required SIGAR, through the explanatory statement for the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, to continue monitoring the Afghan governments progress in implementing the strategy and provide an update to this report.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2018
- Accession Number
- AD1139365
Entities
People
- Charles Hyacinthe
- Chris Borgeson
- Farid A. Akrami
- John Schenk
- Margaret Tiernan
- Zachary Rosenfeld
Organizations
- Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction