The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) was a US government oversight office created by Congress in 2008 to independently monitor and evaluate how taxpayer dollars were spent on the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Its statutory mandate gave SIGAR the authority to conduct audits, inspections, and investigations of programs, operations, and contracts funded with US appropriations for Afghan reconstruction, with the aim of promoting efficiency and effectiveness while detecting and preventing waste, fraud, and abuse.
SIGAR regularly reported its findings to Congress, provided detailed quarterly assessments of reconstruction activities, and offered recommendations for improvement, serving as the leading watchdog on the multibillion-dollar effort to reconstruct Afghanistan. In its final report, SIGAR documented findings that included massive fraud, waste, and abuse within the $144.7 million Congress allocated for Afghanistan’s reconstruction.
SIGAR officially ceased operations on January 31, 2026, and its website is no longer active. To help preserve SIGAR’s important work, MWI has uploaded a copy of the final report, as well as a collection of interviews from SIGAR’s oral history project, all of which are available below.
