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Government
strategy
Sector-wide initiatives will include:
• Capacity building to address the lack of
management skills and a poorly trained work force.
The Government will encourage and facilitate the
market-based provision of business development
services and vocational training. Increased skills
and knowledge will allow Afghan businesses to
innovate and compete more strongly on domestic and
international markets.
• Government will also actively encourage the
participation of women in the private sector. The
Government will address the barriers to women’s full
economic participation and increasing in their
productivity. It will assist them through
facilitating access to capital, marketing and skills
development. The Government will ensure that women
are especially targeted in the provision of business
development services and training and expanding
marketing opportunities. In the implementation of
micro-credit schemes, the Government will pay
particular attention to women.
• Government will ensure that anti-corruption
measures are incorporated in all programs outlined
above. Corruption in the form of paying bribes is a
direct manifestation of attempts to circumvent the
high transaction costs in the Afghan economy.
Efforts to reduce the high transaction costs are
therefore closely linked to anti-corruption
measures. Government will increase its efforts to
introduce more transparent procedures as well as
provide specific anti-corruption measures such as
the introduction of a code of ethics for customs
officials. Chapter 7 outlines the Government’s
anticorruption strategy in greater detail.
• Divestment of SOEs. The Government is committed to
liquidating and or privatizing those state owned
enterprises that provide services that can and
should be delivered through the market. Those that
currently perform important functions that cannot be
quickly delivered through the market will remain
under government ownership for the time being and
efforts will be made to strengthen their management,
oversight, transparency and ultimately, their
financial viability.
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