Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - Enhanced Integrated Framework ...

inforcing the integrity of public and businesssector relationships; and, (vii) increasing politicalaccountability.Implementation frameworkThe mainstreaming process will be driven primarilyby the three complementary and interdependentareas of public administration, financialmanagement and legal reform:• Improving Public Sector Management:aimed at the creation and consolidation ofa motivated, knowledgeable, skilled, efficientand effective public service.• Strengthening Public Accountability:aimed at increasing the transparency andaccountability of procedures and controlsfor the management of public resourcesand thereby deterring corrupt practices, orincreasing the likelihood of detection ofthose practices and generating systemicimprovement to prevent their future reoccurrence.• Reinforcing the Legal Framework andJudicial System: aimed at ensuring thecomprehensiveness and robustness of thelegal and regulatory framework in order tosupport activities and measures of Afghanistan’santi corruption institutions andmeasures.The anti-corruption mainstreaming processwill be applied jointly with the security sectorstrategy and the economic and social developmentsector strategies to guide their completionin order to ensure that anti-corruption measuresare explicitly included and implicitly reflectedin their development proposals. Implementationwill draw upon the diagnosticefforts for institutional arrangements for combatingcorruption concluded by UNDP’s Accountabilityand Transparency project. Howeverthe key partner institutions on anticorruptionare the ministries and agencies withresponsibilities for delivering the Government’sreform agenda comprising:• The IARCSC, responsible for the Government-widePAR program, directed at improvingpublic service management andpublic service delivery by addressing administrativestructures and systems; humanresource management policies, proceduresand practices and institutional capacitybuilding.• The Control and Audit Office and the Ministryof Finance, responsible for strengtheningthe Government’s financial control systemsand practices.• The Ministry of Justice and Supreme Court,responsible for strengthening the legislativeframework and improving the efficiencyand effectiveness of the justice andrule of law sector.• The AGO, the GIAAC, and Ministry of Interiorresponsible for policinganti-corruption measures via inspectionand investigation of corrupt practices in thepublic and private sectors.• The AIHRC and the National Assemblyrepresentative oversight bodies such as theNational Assembly and Provincial Councils,responsible for promoting links betweencivil society and the political decision-makingprocesses.The Government is firmly committed to fullyand effectively implementing these anticorruptionmeasures.GENDER EQUITYBackground and contextThe Gender Equity Cross Cutting Strategy isthe basis for the ANDS to address and reversewomen’s historical disadvantage. The strategyprovides a roadmap for various sectors to bringabout changes in women’s position in society,their socio-economic condition and access todevelopment opportunities. This strategy is anoverarching framework that synthesizes thecritical measures to be pursued through allANDS sectors to fulfill the Government’scommitments to women’s development as embodiedin the Constitution, Afghanistan MDGs,Afghanistan Compact, I-ANDS, and internationaltreaties such as the Convention on theElimination of all forms of Discriminationagainst Women (CEDAW) and the Beijing Platformfor Action (BPFA).The ultimate goal is ‘gender equality’; a conditionwhere women and men fully enjoy theirrights, equally contribute to and enjoy thebenefits of development and neither is pre-148Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)