Ensuring professionalism of SAIs
To optimize the performance of, and trust in, public auditing, SAIs must focus on continuous improvement, competent personnel, professional standards, and ideal work environments. These pillars foster excellence and empower SAIs in fulfilling their mandates.
Ideal working environment
Ideal work environment for SAI: Independence, comprehensive mandates, unrestricted information access, freedom to publish reports and follow-up actions.
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Professional standards and guidance
Professional standards guide INTOSAI members, ensuring quality and consistency in public sector audits, enabling SAIs to effectively fulfil roles.
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Competent people
Core to the audit profession are competent auditors, needing continuous competency development to apply standards in line with their SAI mandate.
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Assessment and ongoing improvement
SAIs should assess and improve compliance with professional standards, measuring holistic performance, ideally via the SAI Performance Measurement Framework.
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Our News
31 August final day for CBC/IDC Annual Meetings Registrations!
Please remember to register and to make your hotel bookings this week. The Annual Meetings of INTOSAI Capacity Building Committee and the INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation Steering Committee will be hosted by the Auditor-General of South Africa, CBC Chair Kimi Makwetu, at the...
New issue of PASAI Bulletin
Please find the PASAI Quarterly Bulletin June 2016 below. Inside this issue you will find news about: • New Zealand Auditor General publishes report on governance and accountability • New Auditor General Appointments • New Director for PASAI • Child Protection...
Cape Town Attractions
We are approaching the annual meetings of the CBC and the INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation, taking place in Cape Town 3-6 October, and we would like to share with you some information about Cape Town and its surroundings. Maybe this can tempt participants to stay in the...
Governance and Supreme Audit Institutions: Reflections from the UK National Audit Office
Good governance lies at the heart of the mandate of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) to hold public agencies to account for the way in which they use public resources and for recommending improvements. The key role played by SAIs in good governance is increasingly...
Anti-Corruption Summit in London recognises the important role of SAIs
Independence for the world’s audit institutions: a step closer INTOSAI welcomes the 2016 Anti-Corruption Summit in London on having recognised the important role Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) play in the fight against corruption. The Conference communique called...
IDI Press release: Supporting SAIs to strengthen public sector accountability
The May 12 Anti-Corruption Summit in London recognises the important role Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) can play in the fight against corruption. The Summit Declaration resolves to work to strengthen fiscal transparency, including by ensuring legislative oversight...
Our Workstreams
Each workstream uniquely contributes to enhancing public sector auditing. Explore their roles in capacity building, upholding professional standards, and innovating for public administration improvement.
Audit of Donor Funds
The workstream supports CBC’s strategic objective 2.5: “Engage strategically with the wider international development community in the interest of SAI capacity development.”
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Peer-To-Peer Cooperation
Peer-to-peer cooperation is the preferred mode of capacity development for a majority of SAIs. Long term peer-to-peer partnerships between SAIs build on common experiences, missions and identity.
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Regional Forum For Capacity Development
It is CBCs ambition to create a space for exchange of ideas about current strategic issues affecting regional organizations, and explore workable solutions, involving all relevant stakeholders.
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SubCommittee on Peer Reviews
To find Peer Review Materials (Peer Review Reports, Memorandums of Understanding, etc.) please click below:
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ACCC
The aim of ACCC is to develop different methods to support public sector auditing in complex and challenging contexts as well as donors and partner organizations supporting development in this area.
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IntoSAINT
IntoSAINT is a tool to assess the vulnerabilities and the maturity of the integrity controls of SAIs.
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SAI PMF
The SAI PMF enables SAIs to sustainably improve their performance and impact, thereby contributing to the INTOSAI’s mission of fostering continuous improvement in SAI performance.
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Subcommittee on Cooperative Audits
The Subcommittee on Cooperative Audits, known before as Subcommittee 2: Develop advisory and consultant services, was created in 2006 under the scope of the Capacity Building Committee of INTOSAI.
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TFCP
The goal of the task force is to share good practices of citizen participation and civil society engagement in the work of SAIs…
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