Strategy

ADB's country partnership strategy (CPS), 2009-2013, for Afghanistan continues ADB's focus on the energy, transportation and communications, agriculture and natural resources, and governance sectors in the country. Support to these sectors will include capacity and institutional development and attention to sector governance, with emphasis on public financial management, procurement, and anticorruption, in line with ADB's Second Governance and Anticorruption Action Plan. It is proposed that the bulk of ADB assistance will be provided through sector-based MFFs, although there remains scope for project- and program-based support.

ADB is also expected to make additional strategic private sector investments. The CPS is fully aligned with the ANDS as well as the ANDS Results-Based Framework where ADB support focuses on ANDS pillar 3 (economic and social development), as well as ANDS pillar 2 (governance, rule of law, and human rights).