Yesterday, a workshop for civil servants, and representatives from civil society organisations (CSOs) and private companies took place at the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) in Kabul. The workshop laid the foundation for re-validating Afghanistan’s membership to the EITI standard for 2020, after being suspended in early 2019. The MoMP’s Deputy Minister for Policy and Programmes, Wali Ullah Zadran, chaired the event. Sixty people, men and women, including key government personnel and the entire Afghan Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Multi-Stakeholder Group participated.