Governor's Office Directorate
Duties and Responsibilities
Governor's Office Directorate is a key department that plays an important role in implementing the key objectives and functions of Da Afghanistan Bank. The department transmits the policies of the Central Bank through its relations with stakeholders. It informs the market players of the latest economic events and forecasts on inflation rate, economic growth, and financial sector stability.
This department is also responsible for keeping and archiving the related documents and organizing Da Afghanistan Bank's work relations.
Structure
The Governor's Office Directorate has four deputies: Deputy Director of Communications and Publications, Deputy Director of Administration and Executive Section, Deputy Director of Coordination, and Deputy Directorate of Financial Sector Strengthening Projects.
1. Deputy Director of Communications and Publications
Deputy Director of Communications and Publications is responsible for managing the overall publications and communications of Da Afghanistan Bank with its stakeholders, devising plans for the public relations of the Bank, presenting information and raising public awareness on laws, regulations, and overall policies of the Bank about price stability, establish a strong financial sector, maintain good relationships with other institutions, make plans for raising public awareness on objectives, duties and fundamental values of Da Afghanistan Bank and write and review topics for communications and publications sections of Da Afghanistan Bank. It has to be noted that the Publications, media Communications, Public Awareness, and Translation Sections operate under the management of the Deputy Director of Communications and Publications.
Media Communications Section
This section is responsible for monitoring activities related to the communication function, maintaining strong relations with the bank’s stakeholders (government, parliament, media, public and private sectors, academic society…), publishing news and information on Da Afghanistan Bank’s achievements, reviewing and verify topics and contents of the internal and external websites of Da Afghanistan Bank, receiving public views and complaints especially those related to economic and trade affairs and vice versa; transmitting the policies, objectives, duties and main values of the Central Bank through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts of the bank.
Publications Section
The Publication section works as the only publishing body of the bank. This section reflects the performance, policies, goals, responsibilities, and achievements of the Central Bank through various means such as monthly magazines, annual reports, orial booklets, and other publications.
Public awareness:
This section conveys the bank's policies to a various segment of society by launching awareness and training programs, including educational workshops, seminars, advertisements, and video messages.
Translation Section
This section translates necessary documents and data from English to official languages and vice versa, which also includes documents for the Communications and Public Relations sections and other materials important for the key objectives and functions of Da Afghanistan Bank. In addition, the board has the responsibility to translate transcripts and topics related to the Publications section, laws, regulations, policies, questionnaires, and other necessary documents and letters related to other offices of the bank from English to official languages and vice versa.
2. Deputy Director of Administration and Executive Section
This section monitors the affairs related to documentation and archiving, facilitates the process of submitting documents to the bank’s various departments, records the approvals of the bank’s higher authorities, follows up all internal and external documents of the bank, monitors and verifies the registration and issuance of approvals by the executive board, and responds to official letters and inquiry letters of other entities.
This section also manages the Executive Office, Archive, Documentation, and Reporting Sections.
Executive office:
This section is responsible for drafting and recording requisitions, official letters, inquiry letters and manages the outgoing and incoming correspondences of the bank, and informs in writing the relevant departments of the approvals of the executive board.
Archive:
The archive section keeps and archives entire documents and correspondences of the bank with internal offices and external institutions which include official letters, monetary policy and financial sector reports, and other necessary documents.
Documentation:
This section is responsible for recording and registering documents that are sent to Da Afghanistan Bank concerning various issues by external organizations and outgoing documents sent by Da Afghanistan Bank to various institutions after they are signed by the executive board of the bank and records them in incoming and outgoing registers.
Reporting section:
The section collects and consolidates the report of activities and achievements of Da Afghanistan Bank and shares them with the Office of the President. It also collects plans of different departments of DAB and shares a summarized form thereof with the executive board. Other tasks include preparing and scanning reports after the instructions of the leadership of the Bank, sending documents to the relevant departments, and following up on the implementation of the executive boards’ approvals.
3. Deputy Director of Coordination:
This section was created to coordinate the official tasks of the zones and solve the problems of zones and their provincial branches. It is in contact with the zones and provincial branches of Da Afghanistan Bank and acts as a link between them. This section follows up on all daily affairs, requirements, human resources, requests, and other administrative issues. It’s responsible for processing the visa and passport procedures of Da Afghanistan Bank employees and foreign employees of commercial banks.
Protocol and Zone Coordination sections operate under the Deputy Director of Coordination.
Protocol Section
This section undertakes to facilitate and obtain passports, visas, and other protocol issues for the members of the Supreme Council, the executive board, and other employees of Da Afghanistan Bank. The section works as a liaison between Da Afghanistan Bank and the Office of Administrative Affairs of the Presidential Palace.
Coordination Section
This section is responsible for collecting reports from the zones and their relevant departments, following up the zone proposals and re-assuring the work performance, implementing the recommendations and approvals of the central bank's executive board within the scope of its duties, receiving entire documents from the zones and their branches through the emails, creating work facilities for Da Afghanistan Bank’s zones.
4. Donors Projects Management Deputy Directorate:
The donor’s project management deputy directorate has been integrated into the organizational framework of the Governor’s Office Directorate and implements all development projects of the Da Afghanistan Bank funded by the World Bank and acts as a project coordinator between the three organizations the Ministry of Finance, the World Bank, and national procurement authority.
This Deputy Directorate operates within the Governor's Office Directorate and exercises its relevant authority through the Banking Law and Da Afghanistan Bank Law, functioning within the jurisdiction of Da Afghanistan Bank.
The Senior Operational Management, Financial Affairs Management, Operational Affairs Management, as well as Senior Administrative and Executive officers, performing under this Deputy Directorate.