A watchdog on Tuesday urged President Ashraf Ghani to revoke his February 19 decree on restructuring the Ministry of Finance (MoF). Under the decree, three new independent government agencies will be established for revenue, customs, and treasury and…
KABUL (IWA) on Tuesday said essential needs of people have not been considered in drafting next year’s budget plan while the incumbent government spent 150 billion afghanis more development budget than the previous one. IWA’s findings show the national unity…
KABUL (IWA) says the national budget plan has somehow reformed, but is still subject to abuse by the government and powerful figures. The IWA said the government instead of improving its capacity for projects’ implementation and budget spending should reduce…
KABUL’s challenges, says Integrity Watch Afghanistan’s national corruption survey 2018, asking the government to focus on long term anti-graft efforts. The survey released on Saturday has found some slight progress since in Afghanistan’s general situation since 2016, with limited room…
KABUL (IWA) on Monday talked about how most of the international aid to Afghanistan was misused, but admitted the Afghan government has now developed ‘effective anti-corruption programs’. However, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has said most of…
KABUL’s budget making has increased from 42 to 49 in terms of scores over the past two years, but people’s participation in the exercise has decreased from 27 to 15 marks. Syed Akram Afzali, Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) head, told…
KABUL’s budget making has increased from 42 to 49 in terms of scores over the past two years, but people’s participation in the exercise has decreased from 27 to 15 marks. Syed Akram Afzali, Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) head, told…
KABUL, Herat City, Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad, Bamyan City, Mahmud Raqi, Kunduz City, Kabul and Gardez. The level of public satisfaction with municipal services was assessed in a recent survey by the Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA), which interviewed more than 4,000 people…
KABUL members’ demands were incorporated in it. The watchdog said even half of development budget could not be utilized during the past one decade due to political influence in projects. In the next fiscal year’s (1397) budget draft, 267.2 billion…
KABUL (IWA) on Sunday launched a report that said despite spending millions of dollars, the state of prisons in Afghanistan remained inhuman. In its report, the watchdog analyzed three major prisons in Afghanistan, Pul-i-Charkhi on the eastern outskirts of Kabul,…
