Jun 8, 2020 | Assessment and ongoing improvement, BlogSpot, News
Business continuity during crisis As we reflect on the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on our citizens and our staff, the impact on economies around the globe has been dire with organisations having to close as they are unable to continue delivering on their...
May 13, 2020 | Assessment and ongoing improvement, BlogSpot, News
Grass can be green on both sides of the fence They say that grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. In fact, it has always been like that if you come from Finland and you look over the Baltic Sea and see Sweden’s shores. Swedes always tend to beat us...
Apr 14, 2020 | BlogSpot, General, News
Coronavirus: How should SAIs respond? The global coronavirus pandemic is leaving us all stunned. Each day we hear of new countries having to close borders, place citizens under lockdown, and launch major new publicly funded initiatives to ensure businesses survive and...
Jan 14, 2020 | BlogSpot, Competent people, News
Success factors for applying what has been learned? In October 2019 I attended AFROSAI-E’s Technical Update in Cape Town, a knowledge sharing- and networking event for the English-speaking countries of the African region, with close to 180 participants. The event...
Nov 26, 2019 | BlogSpot, Ideal working environment, News
Camilla Lindståhl Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) rightly continue to face high expectations in their work of holding governments accountable for their stewardship of public funds, ensuring governments’ integrity and transparency, as well as providing value-adding...
Nov 4, 2019 | Assessment and ongoing improvement, BlogSpot, News
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity, a lesson I learnt from a recent peer-to-peer cooperation between my SAI and the Swedish National Audit Office (SNAO) on plain language. It was my first introduction to understanding how words –...