The Afghanistan extractive industries transparency initiative (AEITI) is an initiative charged with developing and implementing a framework for transparent data disclosures, and facilitating enhanced accountability in the mining, oil, and gas (extractives) sector in Afghanistan. The AEITI implements the EITI standard through a multi stakeholder group (MSG) comprised of representatives from civil society, the private sector, and government ministries. This standard operating procedures (SOP) details the procedures to be adopted by the AEITI MSG in its day-to-day operation, governance, and decision-making process. It applies to the AEITI MSG, the AEITI National Secretariat, and any MSG working committees, and sub-committees. This SOP details the processes that the MSG will follow to: (a) to ensure transparency and accountability in the AEITI decision-making process; (b) ensure that all MSG meetings, and meetings of sub-committees and working groups are productive and efficient; (c) enshrine the participation of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), private sector, and government (through their representatives of their broader constituencies at the MSG) in the AEITI decision making process; and (d) ensure that templates, minutes of meetings, resolutions, and other documents, are standardized as far as possible across the various organs of AEITI.