KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Finance (MoF) on Wednesday called as important implementation of the Afghan government’s commitments, including announcing a date for elections in 12 days, for international community’s support.
MoF Minister Eklil Hakimi told this at a meeting of representatives from all government organs in Kabul.
Electoral reform, schedule for Wolesi Jirga and district council elections until the end of 2016, fighting corruption, creating a justice and criminal center, preparing a plan for judicial reforms and appointment of governors and their deputies were the government’s commitments with the international community in London Conference, 2014, Hakimi said.
He added employing 800 people through Capacity Building For Results (CBR) program, local governance policy, simplification of trade policy and making a plan for infrastructural development were other commitments of the government.
The minister said 24 new commitments were made at the Brussels Conference this year, with the Afghan government making 15 commitments and the rest by the international community.
New commitments
According to the MoF, the Afghan government’s commitments include taking tangible steps for reforms, preparation for Wolesi Jirga and provincial council elections, drafting a strategy for fighting corruption, implementing financial reforms and stabilizing economy by implementing structural parameters through International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The government also needed to increase the number of female workers in civil services by two percent, establishing a special court for the entire country to deal with cases of violence against women until the end of 2018.
The government has to begin implementation of Women’s Economic Empowerment plan in the first half of 2017, the MoF said.
The ministry said implementation of the National Citizen Charter program in 2,000 villages and employing 1,200 people through CBR were other commitments of the government.
Launching management reform program in the ministries of agriculture, interior, the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG), Central Statistics Organization (CSO) and High Audit Authority are new commitments of the government which need to be implemented until the end of 2018.
Creating a comparative mechanism for public and private partnership and offering three public and private projects for bidding by the High Economic Council, approving management rules for land and expropriation, approving municipality bankruptcy law, amending mines law, simplifying public services in Kabul, preparing a plan for reforms in investment, publishing high valued contracts are pledges of the government that need to be implemented until the end of 2018.
MoF Minister Eklil Hakimi said implementation of the government pledges was very important in order to obtain all international community support.
The Afghan government would share its performance report with the international community in a conference expected to be held in Saudi Arabia in 2018, he said.
With fixing schedule for upcoming elections, the Afghan government would be able to receive fund from donors for the elections.
New commitments by international community
According to MoF, presenting IMF’s assessment report of Afghanistan to the IMF’s committee, assessment of the nature of budget spending, preparing financial agreements for all projects out of the government budget, coordinating aids for supporting national priority programs’ policies, reviewing joint performance report of taxes, dissolving all parallel structures in ministries, assessment of National Technical Assistance (NTA) in all contracts and providing technical support for standardization of departments are the international community’s new commitments to Afghanistan.
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