{"id":3430,"date":"2017-01-10T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2017-01-10T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:51:30","slug":"1396-national-budget-review-session-with-members-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/?p=3430","title":{"rendered":"1396 National Budget Review-Session with Members of Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3427\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0013-1000x750.jpg\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"249\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0013-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0013.jpg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a>On 8<sup>th<\/sup> January 2017, EQUALITY for Peace and Development shared the main findings of its recent research on \u201cIndependent Review of Afghanistan 1396 National Budget Draft\u201d with women affairs, civil society and human rights parliamentary committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is the sixth annual report that is published and provides a snapshot of resources, allocations, and Public Finance Management Performance (PFMP). With this annual review, EPD aims to present a simple and coherent review of the budget so that people can understand the budget and what it means for their daily lives and review the quality of services via allocated resources. This independent budget review also provides details to Afghan parliament to review and approve the national budget. The process furthermore provides a platform for input on national budget planning from a civil society perspective. This snapshot budget review is a summary review released along with the sending of the budget to Parliament to provide a timely review of the budget and this year\u2019s developments in public financial management, reforms, and benchmarks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">During the session Mr. Edrees Omarzad; executive director of EQUALITY for Peace and Development presented the main findings of this research report and discussed the reforms that the ministry of finance has brought in the draft budget terms of considering GRB, reducing fiscal gap, budget execution and transparency in revenue collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0016-1000x750.jpg\" alt=\"???????????????????????????????\" width=\"276\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0016-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0016.jpg 1613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a>Ms. Fawzia Kofi; chairperson of women affairs, civil society and human rights parliamentary committee emphasized on importance of including gender issues in the national budget. Appreciating EPDs research report; she added that such reports especially regarding gender responsive budgeting should be conducted more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ms. Aziza Jalis; deputy chairman of this parliamentary committee criticized that in spite of allocating enormous budgets in different sectors due to lack of transparency, service delivery is in bad situation especially in rural areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For further details about EPDs research report on \u201cIndependent Review of Afghanistan 1396 National Budget Draft\u201d please click on the following links and download our research report in Dari, Pashtu and English:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/National-Budget-Review-1396-Dari.pdf\">http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/National-Budget-Review-1396-Dari.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/National-Budget-Review-1396-Pashtu.pdf\">http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/National-Budget-Review-1396-Pashtu.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/National-Budget-Review-1396.pdf\">http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/National-Budget-Review-1396.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 8th January 2017, EQUALITY for Peace and Development shared the main findings of its recent research on \u201cIndependent Review of Afghanistan 1396 National Budget Draft\u201d with women affairs, civil society and human rights parliamentary committee. 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