Tempus fugit or how to make friends and keep them while peer-reviewing a SAI

Aug 22, 2018 | Assessment and ongoing improvement, BlogSpot, News

According to history, Publius Vergilius Maro (also known as Virgil to the English-speaking world) spent substantial time in the years 37–29 BC on a long didactic hexameter poem called Georgics (from Greek, “On Working the Earth”). The themes of the...

Measuring INTOSAI regions’ performance for the delivery of capacity development programs

Jul 2, 2018 | BlogSpot

When I first took over my new position as ARABOSAI General Secretariat adviser I was keen to get going and make a difference. I wanted to find out how an INTOSAI region could maximize the value of its interventions to support capacity development programs. Perhaps I...

A success factor for both international capacity development programs and international organization’s meetings

May 8, 2018 | BlogSpot

When conducting international capacity development programs, we need to consider how to overcome differences in systems, languages and cultures between the participating countries. If I were in charge of such international programs, I would attach importance to the...

Development outside the comfort zone

Mar 29, 2018 | BlogSpot

Experience of a parallel performance audit in the Western Balkans In it’s very foundation, every change means stretching, it means excursion outside the usual habits and routines we are comfortable with. This kind of journey always takes us along a bumpy road and our...

A framework for Reporting on Public Finance Management

Mar 2, 2018 | BlogSpot

When I assumed my new role as CEO at AFROSAI-E recently, a number of topical issues, amongst others Professionalisation; Public Finance Management (PFM) reforms; SAIs operating in fragile states and SDGs, sparked excitement and enthusiasm in me.  I would like to share...

Capacity Building – personally and institutionally rewarding in Tanzania NAO

Jan 11, 2018 | BlogSpot

Being introduced to performance audit for the first time, you can face difficulties in mind-set, thinking that you will always have to conduct audit only in areas of specialization, and nothing else will work just as well. The concerns of conducting audits in...