Afghanistan in Transition : Looking beyond 2014
Afghanistan will experience a major security and development transition over the next three years. At the Kabul and Lisbon Conferences in 2010, the North Atlantic treaty organization and the Afghan government agreed that full responsibility for sec...
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| Format: | Publication |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/02/17423299/afghanistan-transition-looking-beyond-2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13107 |
| Summary: | Afghanistan will experience a major
security and development transition over the next three
years. At the Kabul and Lisbon Conferences in 2010, the
North Atlantic treaty organization and the Afghan government
agreed that full responsibility for security would be handed
over to the Afghan National Security Forces by the end of
2014. The country now faces the prospects of a drawdown of
most international military forces over the coming several
years, and an expected accompanying decline in civilian aid
as international attention shifts elsewhere and aid budgets
in many organization for economic cooperation and
development countries come under increasing fiscal pressure.
The decline in external assistance will have widespread
ramifications for Afghanistan's political and economic
landscape well beyond 2014. Ensuring the delivery of
services to the Afghan people requires delegating more
responsibilities to the provincial level. Only a tiny
fraction of the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) budget
gets outside the line ministries in Kabul. An important
priority moving forward will be enhancing the capacity of
provincial offices to participate in budget formulation and
key spending ministries to execute their budgets
subnationally. Without this, the government may find
absorbing a greater proportion of aid on budget and
delivering results to its people difficult. |
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