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
Programme of CBC-IDC contiguous meeting taking shape in Oslo
In the second week of March many INTOSAI stakeholders, including CBC Chair Mr Kimi Makwetu and Vice Chair Mr Magnus Lindell, gathered in Oslo for the IDI Board Meeting. The CBC Leadership and Secretariat also took the opportunity to discuss the forthcoming contiguous...
INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation Newsletter, February 2016, available
For your reading pleasure and interesting updates on SAI PMF and more, please find below the latest quarterly newsletter of the INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation. INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation Newsletter: http://www.idi.no/Filnedlasting.aspx?MId1=96&FilId=1232
Commenting field open in the Blog Spot
The recently started CBC Blog Spot now has a commenting field. The CBC Secretariat welcomes readers to engage in discussions inspired by the blog items, challenging everyone to learn from others’ experiences and share our own. Remember that the views expressed in the...
Inaugural meeting of the Common Forum for INTOSAI Framework of Professional Standards
The Common Forum for INTOSAI Framework of Professional Standards met for the first time December 6-11, 2015, in New York and Washington D.C., USA. The Common Forum held its first meeting, hosted by the Professional Standards Committee (PSC). The experts met with the...
The CBC Blog Spot – a website initiative
Please let us introduce you to the new CBC website Blog Spot. The CBC Secretariat continuously strive to make sure that the website is active and current, presenting diverse and interesting materials relating to SAI capacity development. In an effort to make the...
Capacity Building in new issue of EUROSAI Magazine
In the recently published issue of the EUROSAI Magazine, we in particular encourage you to read the report on the VIII OLACEFS-EUROSAI Conference (p 13) and the report on the main outcomes of EUROSAI Goal Team 1 on Capacity Building during 2015 (p 18), the latter also...
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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