Afghanistan announced its intent to implement the EITI in March 2009, and became an EITI Candidate country on 10 February 2010.
On 16 March 2009 the Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GOIRA) announced its endorsement of the principles of EITI, after which all remaining EITI sign-up indicators were entirely implemented to become EITI candidate country that was officially endorsed by the International EITI Board at its meeting in Oslo in February 2010. GOIRA has requested that the donor community provides immediate technical and financial support to develop good governance and accountability mechanisms in Extractive Industries Sector via effective EITI implementation process in Afghanistan. For this purpose the AEITI (Afghanistan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) Secretariat was established within the Ministry of Finance in July 2010 to take the lead of EITI implementation in Afghanistan.
