Audit trails
Every transaction logged, retained, queryable. External-audit-ready by default.
Government ERP in Afghanistan — at ministry scale.
The team that delivered a 500,000-employee Odoo HR and payroll rollout for a national-government workforce. Audit trails that pass external review, FAR-equivalent procurement controls, grade-based payroll, and integration with Afghan tax and banking infrastructure.
500K+
Employees · national-government Odoo HR rollout
20 yrs
Delivering ERP in Afghanistan
50+
ERP implementations across the region
Delivered from Kabul
at ministry scale — delivered by senior teams based in Kabul, governed under ISO 12207 and ISO 27001. Twenty years of enterprise delivery in Afghanistan, including the 500,000-employee national-government Odoo HR rollout and Jobs.af. Engagements run from our Kabul office with regional support in Dubai and India.
- 500,000-employee Odoo HR engagement for a national government
- Jobs.af — Afghanistan's largest job-hunting platform — built by NETLINKS
- Clients include Da Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan Payments System, AKDN, World Bank, UNDP
Ministry-scale ERP is mostly an audit-readiness problem.
Government ERP isn't primarily a feature problem. Every procurement, disbursement, payroll cycle needs to be traceable, segregable, and reportable to oversight bodies. Most commercial ERPs claim to support this; few are configured to actually deliver it without extensive consulting.
Our marquee Afghan public-sector engagement: a 500,000-employee national-government HR and payroll rollout. 1,000+ system users, multi-cycle payroll, grade-based pay computation, custom modules for Afghan grade structures, integration with Afghan tax and banking infrastructure. Audit trails passed external review without findings on system controls.
Engagement model for government rollouts: phased — pilot ministry first (typically 1,000-5,000 employees), expand to additional ministries over 12-24 months, full national rollout if applicable. Multi-year managed-services contracts follow.
— Government scope
What we deliver to Afghan government.
Segregation of duties
Role-based access enforcing standard SoD matrices. Conflict detection at provisioning time.
Procurement controls
FAR-equivalent procurement workflows, multi-level approvals, vendor qualification, sanctions screening.
Grade-based payroll
Afghan civil-service grade structures, multi-cycle payroll, allowance computation, leave at scale.
Tax + banking integration
Ministry of Finance tax-authority filings, Afghan banking infrastructure (Da Afghanistan Bank, APS).
Scale
Proven at 500K-employee, 1,000+ system users, multi-cycle payroll. Largest Afghan ERP engagement ever.
— Questions
Afghan government ERP — what ministries ask.
Have you delivered to a specific Afghan ministry before?
Yes — we've delivered Odoo for the Ministry of Interior Affairs and the Ministry of Defense. The 500K-employee national-workforce engagement is our largest single public-sector deployment. Specific references on request.
Can Odoo handle grade-based Afghan civil-service pay structures?
Yes — we built custom Odoo modules for the 500K-employee engagement specifically to handle Afghan civil-service grade structures, allowance computation, and multi-cycle payroll. The configuration is reusable for other Afghan public-sector deployments.
What about integration with the Afghan Ministry of Finance?
Yes — we've integrated Odoo with Afghan Ministry of Finance tax-filing systems and banking infrastructure (Da Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan Payments System). Salary disbursement to 500K bank accounts, tax filing in MoF-compliant formats.
How is project funding handled for Afghan government?
Depends on the funding source. Direct government budget allocations work as standard public-procurement contracts. Donor-funded programs (World Bank, USAID, GIZ) follow donor-specific procurement and reporting requirements which we've handled extensively.
Where is your team based?
NETLINKS Plaza, Street 6, Lane 3, Shar-e-naw, Kabul. Phone: 077-302-0101. Senior architects and engineers based in Kabul; regional backup from Dubai, India, US.
How do I get started?
30-min discovery → paid 2-4 week structured discovery → written solution design + firm fixed-fee proposal. Refundable against the implementation.
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