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The peer review mechanism, which allows the government and donors, to discuss
priorities and review progress on implementation, has proved to be a successful
process.
While these achievements are worthwhile, the post Tokyo environment in 2012
provides an opportunity for both the government and the international community
to adopt a more structured approach to reform institutions and to improve the
effectiveness of aid.
In its Aid Management Policy, the government has identified a number of priority areas
in which progress has been lagging in 2011, but would require rigorous focus in the
years ahead. These aspects include predictability of aid through financing agreements,
division of labor (DoL) among donors in each sector, investment in projects with the
potential to improve regional cooperation and economic integration. Fundamental
for achieving self-reliance, is the effective implementation of the outcome of the
Tokyo Conference.
TOKYO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
AFGHANISTAN – 2012
DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION REPORT
The Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan held in July 2012, once again, brought together
representatives from the GIRoA and International Community to reaffirm their
commitments and further consolidate their development partnership in Afghanistan
from Transition and through the Transformation Decade. These commitments are
built upon the outcomes of the London Conference (2010), Kabul Conference (2010)
and specifically the recent International Conference on Afghanistan in Bonn (2011),
where the Afghan Government and the International Community mutually renewed
their long-term commitments in the areas of governance, security, peace building,
economic and social development, and regional cooperation.
To support Afghanistan’s vision of moving towards increasing self-sufficiency, the
Tokyo Conference consolidated mutual commitments by the International Community
and the GIRoA into a Partnership for Self-Reliance in Afghanistan from Transition to
Transformation. Thus forth, the International Community committed to providing
over USD 16 billion through 2015, and sustaining support, through 2017, at or near
levels of the past decade to respond to the fiscal gap estimated for the beginning
years of the Transformation Decade by GIRoA and the World Bank.
Under the commitments of Tokyo Conference, the International Community, once
again, welcomed ownership of development investments by the GIRoA and reaffirmed
its commitment of aligning 80 percent of aid with the NPPs and channeling at least 50