After many weeks of advice, cajoling and arguing, the
Ministry is ready to showcase their understanding of Budget and Finance by
hosting a Mid-Year review. My staff have
done amazing things getting the Deputy Minister and his staff up to speed. Most of our partners have a fairly good
understanding of the slides they built for presentation.
Of course, they will leave the actual briefings to the young Afghan
civilians we hired as their Subject Matter Experts. Uniformed types would not let themselves be put in a position of possibly not knowing something.
This review is important, because they (and we) will
realign money based on how well they are spending. This year is a bad year for spending because
the President has put a microscope on all procurements to showcase his efforts to fight corruption (a good thing), but the
process is slow now. Mr. George, are you
taking our money? Well, you are
not spending it and US money has a shelf life you know, like grapes on a vine. Hmmmm, can we get it back? Well, not really. Can I get more? Why yes!.
Ok then. I like you Mr. George.
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