Afghanistan National Strategy for Combatting Corruption.

This Policy provides the conceptual framework for assessing why corruption has become so pervasive. It continues to describe the overall approach to striking the most effective balance possible between preventive and punitive action. Finally, the text summarizes the government’s action program, drawing on the diagnostic to set priorities and propose a sequence of interventions. The Policy sets five priorities: (i) provide political leadership and empower reformers; (ii) end security sector corruption, especially in the Ministry of Interior; (iii) replace patronage with merit in the civil service; (iv) prosecute the corrupt; and (v) follow the money to make funding flows transparent, traceable, and subject to audit under a national charter of accounts. The Policy contains 9 Parts and 2 Annexes.