Afghanistan’s score of budget oversight falls to 31

In the seventh round of the biennial Open Budget Survey (OBS) issued on April 30, Afghanistan’s cumulative score of having oversight on its budget has fallen to 31 in 2019 from 43 in 2017. The survey has evaluated oversight performance of the Parliament and Supreme Audit Office as oversight bodies of the budget in the country.

The reason behind the fall for parliament (decreased from 43 to 22) has been reported as its failure to publish “any public reports” on implementation of the budget while that of the Supreme Audit Office (decreased from 67 to 50) is said to be the office’s feeble independence in terms of its budget and the appointment of its head.