Afghanistan 2017 Validation

On 18 January 2019, Afghanistan was found to have made inadequate progress in implementing the EITI Standard. See Board decision 2019-2/BC-264.

Timeline of Validation and related materials

• 1 November 2017 - Validation commenced
• 20 - 25 January 2018 - Country visit 

Initial data collection and stakeholder consultations

• 9 July 2019 - Report on Initial data collection and stakeholder consultation [English] [Pashto]

Validation Report & comments

• 22 July 2018 - Draft Validation Report [English] [Pashto]
• 30 August 2018 - Comments from the MSG [Civil society group, English, Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, English, Javed Noorani, English]
• 11 Septemebr 2018 - Final Validation Report [English] 
• 24 October 2018 - Letter from Acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum, H.E Nargis Nehan [English] [French]
• 03 December 2018 - Second letter from Acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum, H.E Nargis Nehan [English]

Validation Committee

• 16 October 2018 - VC Recommendation to the Board [English, French], Board Paper 41-5-A
• 30 October 2018 - Working group options on Validation Afghanistan [English]
• 11 January 2019 - VC recommendation to the Board [English, French], Board circular 264