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
PASAI blog: The importance of strategic planning and alliances in creating audit impact
By Sinaroseta Palamo-Iosefo, Director – Practice Development, PASAI A mandate that provides supreme audit institutions (SAIs) the discretion to select areas of audit focus is a tremendous responsibility. It deserves proper strategic planning, external consultation and...
AFROSAI-E Bulletin no. 7 2022
Please find below the recent 7th edition of the AFROSAI-E Bulletin, covering topics such as the upcoming 17th Technical Conference taking place in Pretoria, South Africa, from 18 to 20 October 2022. Look out for the official invitation! Furthermore, this issue of the...
PASAI blog: The mutual benefit from engaging with CSO’s
..."Civil society organisations (CSOs) are among a SAI’s most important stakeholders. But there are things SAIs need to do to nurture these relationships to ensure both parties derive value and benefits from this engagement". Please find an interesting read below from...
FIPP call for proposals
Call for volunteers to contribute to the quality of INTOSAI's standards FIPP is a multicultural group composed of 16 expert members from across the SAI community, who voluntarily dedicate time and expertise to contribute to ensuring clear, relevant, and robust...
New AFROSAI-E Bulletin available
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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...