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Result Based Management Framework - METAC

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Call reports covering the financial statements of Islamic banks and/or units<br />

offering Islamic banking services and main Islamic banking products.<br />

Preparing manuals for onsite and offsite supervision of Islamic banking activities.<br />

Risks/Assumptions<br />

The political and security situation in Afghanistan permits the delivery and<br />

implementation of TA in a timely manner.<br />

The DAB provides all the necessary support to the FSD in order to allow it to perform its<br />

functions effectively by ensuring that the FSD has an adequate number of staff with good<br />

qualifications, and that the FSD is granted sufficient powers and relevant legal protection<br />

that enable it to perform its duties with independence and integrity.<br />

The DAB staff makes good use of the knowledge acquired during the capacity building<br />

sessions and applies it effectively and objectively in the course of supervising banks.<br />

The DAB senior management shows continued commitment to implement the new<br />

manuals, enhancements, and policy recommendations supplied by <strong>METAC</strong>.<br />

B. Macroeconomic Statistics<br />

Past Activities<br />

Since its inception, <strong>METAC</strong> has provided TA in statistics to Afghanistan essentially in<br />

complement to significant TA directly provided by the IMF Statistics Department (STA).<br />

<strong>METAC</strong> assistance was provided in the areas of price statistics and of balance of<br />

payments (BOP) statistics. The beneficiary institutions were the Central Statistical<br />

Organization (CSO) and DAB.<br />

Regarding price statistics, in the 2010 IMF staff report it was noted that the CSO<br />

compiles and publishes monthly consumer price indices (CPI) for the capital city, Kabul,<br />

and five other major cities and that, despite some shortcomings this is a remarkable<br />

achievement given insecurity and the scarce resources devoted to the CPI unit. Since<br />

then, with <strong>METAC</strong> assistance, the CSO has undertaken and achieved a major overhaul of<br />

the CPI, namely (i) implementation of full, five-digit Classification of Individual<br />

Consumption by Purpose (COICOP); (ii) update of consumer basket weights using data<br />

from a recent household survey; and (iii) expansion of coverage from six to ten<br />

cities/provinces.<br />

BOP statistics are compiled according to the fifth edition of the Balance of Payments<br />

Manual. The compilation of external statistics has improved significantly in terms of<br />

coverage and soundness of methodology. BOP data were published by the IMF, for the

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