Welcome to Cape Town!
The leadership of the INTOSAI’s Capacity Building Committee (CBC) and the INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation (IDC) welcome participants to the first contiguous meetings of the CBC and IDC Steering Committee taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 3―6 October 2016, hosted by AGSA South Africa.
Logistical Information
The purpose of this logistical information is to provide administrative, logistical and general information for all participants attending the meetings. As the CBC Chair is the host of the meetings, the CBC will coordinate the registration and other logistics for both meetings. Updates on the meeting arrangements will be made available here on the CBC website from time to time.
Please find all necessary information here: Logistical Information CBC/IDC Annual Meetings 2016
Enquiries
Enquiries regarding the registration process and logistics can be addressed to the CBC Secretariat at Secretariat@intosaicbc.org. Enquiries regarding thematic issues must be addressed to either the CBC or IDC secretariat, intosai.donor.secretariat@idi.no, as the case may be.
News
New AFROSAI-E Bulletin available
The sphere of AFROSAI-E is preparing for the Strategic Review and Governing Board in Banjul, The Gambia in the week of 9 May. Read about this and more in the new edition of the: AFROSAI-E Bulletin
CBC blog: Integration of big data in public sector auditing
By Fredrick M. Bobo | Information Systems Audit Manager, AFROSAI-E "The concept of big data has been topical for the last few years. Understandably so because it has been one of the technological trends of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). When it comes to...
CBC blog: Striving for a sustainable CBC
By Johanna Gardmark, Senior International Advisor, Swedish National Audit Office "As we are – hopefully – quickly approaching the end of a multi-year pandemic, it seems like a good time to pause a bit for...
OAG Zambia and OAG Norway’s peer-to-peer cooperation: “Relevant in all areas, but only effective in some.”
Evaluation shows that OAG Zambia's (OAGZ) and OAG Norway's (OAGN) peer-to-peer cooperation has contributed to improving the overall capacity of OAGZ, although the results achieved vary largely across working areas. ICT security audits and compliance audit in the...
INTOSAI Journal interview on importance of Peer-review
"- Peer review, like quality, doesn’t cost, it pays—and in numerous ways!" From the latest issue of the INTOSAI Journal, please find below an interview with Mr Benjamin Nelson, who directs the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) preparations for external...
CBC blog: Challenge your perception of what competency looks like this year
By Camilla Fredriksen, Manager (and Gender Champion) Global Foundations Unit, IDI "Recently there was debate in the Norwegian media about a high-profile recruitment. The discourse brought up some outdated perceptions about who is best qualified for a...
PASAI second quarterly report 2021-22
PASAI has just published its second quarterly report for the 2021–22 financial year. Please find the report here: Second quarterly report.
First AFROSAI-E Bulletin of 2022 is here
Please find below the first issue of the AFROSAI-E Bulletin of the year, as usual offering a nice read about matters of interest and inspiration like the reporting on a PFM strategy session and two new online learning courses. Also, the African Professionalisation...
CBC Blog: The political in the public – persuading governments to act on audit findings
Parting blog: Our dear friend and long-time colleague, David Goldsworthy, has announced that he is retiring and will no longer support the CBC’s work with SAIs in complex and challenging contexts. We are sorry to see him go and have invited him to write a...
New workstream exploring sustainable cooperation on audit of donor funds
By Magdalena Karnebäck, chair of CBC workstream for the Audit of Donor Funds “SAIs and donors make informed choices when engaging in the audit of donor funds, while safeguarding SAIs' independence and respecting their national mandate.” That is the...