Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - Enhanced Integrated Framework ...

activities on gender. The Government will alsoadopt a monitoring scorecard that ministrieswill use to track their own performance ongender equity. All sectors will be required tocollect and use sex disaggregated data, adoptgender sensitive indicators, and include genderrelated performance in their regular reports.Performance of sectors on gender will be monitoredby the Oversight Committee and theJCMB. The gender indicators and statisticalframework of MoWA will be elaborated to containindicators on the performance of governmenton the promotion of women’s status. Themonitoring and evaluation system of everyministry will:• Include gender in the terms of reference ofthe monitoring and evaluation unit and jobdescription of its chiefs;• Provide training on gender sensitive monitoringand reporting;• Adopt gender sensitive indicators;• Collect and process sex disaggregated data;and,• Highlight gender achievements in ministryand sector reports. Surveys that will set thebaseline data for monitoring will be conducted.The baseline statistics on women and men inAfghanistan will be updated annually and disseminatedto strategic users, and NRVA datacollection process will be further strengthenedto support greater gender desegregation.Evaluation will be undertaken periodically totake stock of achievements, correct gaps andadjust strategies as necessary. A mid-termevaluation will be conducted in 2008 and anotheron 2011. Insights from the evaluation willbe used to inform future planning, includingthe updating of the National Action Plan forthe Women of Afghanistan.CAPACITY DEVELOPMENTBackground and contextIt has become increasingly evident that technicaland financial support will remain underutilizedor poorly utilized unless adequate systemiccapacities are built. Years of strife andoutmoded methods of governance and management,without accountability and transparencyhas weakened the capabilities of the publicsector, particularly at provincial and districtlevels. There are, however, indications that thecapacity of the public sector has been increasingover time. In 2004 ministries were onlyable to spend about 31 percent of their developmentbudget allocations. In 2005 this figurehad risen to 44 percent and in 2006 the correspondingfigure was about 49 percent; in realterms this represents an average growth rate ofaround 60 percent as budget allocations areincreasing quite fast. There are no clear indicatorson whether or not the effectiveness of theseexpenditures have also been increasing. Thereare indicators that lack of capacity remains aserious problem within the public sector. TheGovernment, through specific institution buildingwill take the lead in directing capacity developmentto where it is most needed and toevaluating the impact of capacity developmentand technical assistance programs. This institutionalresponsibility will be with InterministerialCommission for Capacity Development(ICCD) that will serve as a single reportingpoint for both the Government anddonors. ICCD will work out detailed goals forcapacity development that will serve crosssectoralpurposes.The Government encourages donors to donorfundedprojects to engage to the maximum extentpossible qualified Afghan expatriates andto make greater use of technical experts fromthe region. These people bring greater understandingof the historic and cultural environmentin which development activities are beingimplemented. Development projects that focuson capacity building should increasingly bedesigned to build on regional human resourcecapacity. The Government also recognizes thatincreasing reliance on building managerial capacityin both the public and private sectorswill be necessary to effectively implement thegoals of the ANDS.Implementation frameworkThere is a limited capacity to effectively implementsuch extensive and intensive capacitydevelopment programs in all areas and thiswill require a well structured institutionalmechanism which has to be built and constantlystrengthened. The institutional arrangementsfor capacity development, in additionto the ICCD, include the Capacity DevelopmentWorking Group (CDWGs), Independ-150Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)