Good Stories
SAIs can learn from and be inspired by each other. This page presents short stories from SAIs in challenging and complex situations. The stories below show how SAIs have addressed or managed to overcome challenges related to a complex situation.
HR-challenges
PASAI: new HR guide now available
A new guide is now available to help Pacific Island SAIs navigate human resource management (HRM), providing the tools to deal with the challenges of attracting, developing, rewarding and retaining staff, based on global knowhow and regional experience. Find...
Capacity development and professionalization initiative of the SAO Afghanistan
The challenge Due to prolonged conflict and prevailing unfavorable conditions in Afghanistan, there is a shortage of...
Overcoming the Human Resources Gap (SAI Liberia)
By Yusador Gaye, Auditor General More than a decade ago, Liberia emerged from a brutal civil conflict which left its...
Improvement of SAI Performance
ISQM implementation enabling focused capacity development
The value and benefits of implementing the International Standard on Quality Management (ISQM 1) In December 2020, the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board released a new standard for the quality management of audits. The new International Standard on...
Updated ACCC Good stories: Using Strategic Planning to Build Partnerships
In 2018 the two SAIs of Niger and Madagascar embarked on a process to prepare new strategic plans, and seek out support for their successful implementation. Knowing this would not be easy considering human and financial resources and the need to galvanize greater...
Catching-up through strategic leadership (SAI Somalia)
By Auditor General Mohamed M. Ali, Office of the Auditor General, Somalia Many SAIs in fragile states have vast...
Leading by example – improving SAI performance through an external peer-review and audit (SAI Liberia)
By Yusador Gaye, Auditor General In 2006, the government’s Supreme Audit Office was re-established under a new democratically elected...
Coping when war interrupts and support to the SAI declines (SAI South Sudan)
By Amb. Steven Kiliona Wondu, Auditor General, South Sudan National Audit Chamber The National...
SAI Independence
ONLINE NOW: Join Somalia’s journey towards a modern and independent audit law
Empowering audits: OAG Somalia’s journey towards a modern and independent audit law Save the date: Tuesday 20 February at 11.00-12.30 am CET Navigating the audit bill process in a challenging context Please join us for this interesting CBC/ACCC webinar where...
Handling of an attempt to reduce the SAIs operational independence (Sierra Leone)
By Mrs Lara Taylor-Pearce, Auditor General, Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) In fragile...
SAI State Building Contribution
Making audit findings understood among a non-literate population (Sierra Leone)
By Mrs Lara Taylor-Pearce, Auditor General, Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) In Sierra...
Real time audit – to add value when the country is experiencing an epidemy (SAI Sierra Leone)
By Mrs Lara Taylor-Pearce, Auditor General, Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) Due to an emergence of the dreaded Ebola virus in-country,...
Increasing the impact of audit recommendations (SAI Kosovo)
By Mr Besnik Osmani, Auditor General of Kosovo Despite its fragile and challenging environment, the...
Stakeholder Management
CSO involvement in the audit process-Afghan SAO experience
The challenge As Afghanistan emerges from over 40 years of conflict, public institutions are gradually...
Saying no to donors if SAI priorities are not supported (Sierra Leone)
By Mrs Lara Taylor-Pearce, Auditor General, Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) One common challenge...