MOHAMMAD MUSTAFA MASTOOR, DEPUTY MINISTER OF FINANCE

Mohammad Mustafa Mastoor is Deputy Minister Finance who is in charge of changes and reforms in the Budget Department, Treasury and Aid Management. His key achievements are the Verified Payroll Program and full implementation and rollout of the online reporting of Mastufiats in 34 provinces to the center; upgrading of online and user-friendly Donor’s Assistance Database (DAD), introduction of State Budget and Planning System (SBPS) and many more...

He has recently led the development of “Public Financial Management (PFM) roadmap”, which was welcomed as one of the best papers by donors at the “Kabul Conference” in July 2010.

He has been the Alternate Governor of Afghanistan to Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Asian Development Bank and is currently the Alternate Governor of Afghanistan to the World Bank and the Governor of Afghanistan in SAARC Development Fund (SDF). He is the chair/member of a number of boards, steering committees and working groups at national and international level.

Born in Kabul in 1968, Mohammad Mustafa Mastoor graduated from the MilitaryHigh School in 1986 and then obtained his MD (Medical Doctor) degree from the University of Kabul in 1992 and EMBA from Preston University Peshawar in 2002. He has participated in many academic training courses and workshops out of Afghanistan. He started working with different hospitals and medical centers providing them technical assistance until 1997, among which were MercyHospital, Peshawar and the PMC (Peshawar Medical Center).

From 2000 to 2003 he worked with international NGOs in important positions where he obtained vast experience in the field of strategic planning, policy development, HR, budget, grant and project management. In 2003 he joined one of the World Bank projects in the Ministry of Health as local consultant for Grant and Contract Management and was rapidly appointed as Director for the Grant and Contract Management unit of this ministry to manage over USD 100 million of different donors, develop the budget framework and prepare the annual budgets of the Ministry of Health. In 2005 he joined Ministry of Finance as Director General of the Budget and managed it successfully for almost four years.

The Budget Department started and implemented new financial reform programs, the most important ones are the introduction of Program Budgeting (which focuses more on the results and service delivery to the people), Provincial Budgeting (Focusing on sub national financial delegation and capacity developments) and Budget Integration. During his assignment the Open Budget Index (OBI) and Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) have been significantly improved in Afghanistan and all major financial reform programs with the key donors such as the World Bank and IMF have been successfully implemented. He joined the budget department in a time that the number of international and national consultants were more than the civil servants in this department. These consultants were performing more than 95% of the routine functions. Now 45 talented and young professionals have been trained in modern public finance management and almost all the functions of the department have been delegated to Afghans. He has improved the donor practices and coordination by forming/chairing many donor coordination forums in the country.