ASSESSMENT OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN PUBLIC HEALTH SECTOR OF AFGHANISTAN
After nearly three decades of continuous conflict the country emerged in late 2001 as a truly devastated state with its human, physical and institutional infrastructure destroyed or severely damaged. At that time the UN Human Development Report ranked Afghanistan as the second poorest country in the World (ANDS 2008).” Afghanistan has a high poverty rate, is landlocked, and is highly dependent on foreign aid, agriculture, and trade with neighboring countries the infrastructure needed for growth is limited and critical markets are underdeveloped (ANDS 2008), Afghanistan is an aid-dependent country. With over half of aid “channeled outside the country’s financial systems it has become difficult to effectively meet government objectives. The lack of information on aid flows makes planning difficult this is “complicated by the large number of donors lack of harmonization and significant donor shortfalls on commitments. Afghanistan is an aid-dependent country. With over half of aid “channeled outside the country’s financial systems it has become difficult to effectively meet government objectives. The lack of information on aid flows makes planning difficult (GoA, 2007). This is “complicated by the large number of donors lack of harmonization.
Public Health, Financial Management, Information System