MEC Monitoring of Ministry Anti-Corruption plans: Ministry Commerce and Industry, 2017

Last year, almost all Ministries of Afghanistan developed their Anti-Corruption Plans and announced their commitment to fulfilling them. Ministry of Commerce and Industries was amongst them. MEC is reviewing each of these plans and is releasing here its first review of the Ministry of Commerce and Industries (MoCI)’s Anti-Corruption Plan. MEC’s review was carried out in the period January to April 2017. MOCI’s plan consists of 23 actions across 5 priority areas: Trade attaches, etc. Approximately 27 interviews were conducted, together with reviews of many documents. The Ministry was mostly extremely cooperative towards the MEC team. However, two parts of the Ministry were quite uncooperative: Regulating and revising procurement process area and oil and petroleum products enterprises. MEC’s findings are expressed in two broad areas: the general nature of the MOCI plan, and the detailed progress of the action items in the plan. Of the 23 actions in the plan, 8 have been fully completed to date. MEC received no cooperation regarding 9 actions. So far, most of the challenges in the plan remain uncompleted.