ISSAI 5600 Guide on Peer Review and Annex

The peer review documentation administered by Sub-Committee Chair comprises of papers on peer reviews (Memoranda of Understanding, final reports, executive summaries, etc.; for all documentation available, see the CBC website and Document Library). Such documentation can serve as a pool for drawing on best practice case studies also included in ISSAI 5600 – the Peer Review Guide and its Annex. The documents are published on the Capacity Building Committee website after permission of the involved SAIs.

To manage and develop the documents, Sub-Committee carries out regular global email survey in a form of a questionnaire addressed to all INTOSAI. Using the questionnaire, Subcommittee also collects information on individual peer review projects, e.g. regarding focus, timeframe, number of staff involved, working days, key recommendations and changes based on these recommendations.

The global e-mail survey 2016 was 4^th since 2012. By the end of 2016, the Sub-Committee was informed about more than 90 completed, on-going or planned peer review projects. That represented increase by 6 projects since survey 2015.

Surveys general conclusions:

The survey participants took a peer review as opportunity to:

• confirm good work done by the reviewed SAI;
• uncover gaps in the reviewed SAI activities;
• source and get ideas for continuous improvement in the given SAI audit activities and help to build the SAIs as modern institutions;
• benefit participants in form of information, knowledge and experience exchange.

In order to promote voluntary peer reviews and general knowledge about them among the INTOSAI community and wider public, several initiatives are conducted by the Subcommittee:

• publishing articles in the INTOSAI Journal of Government Auditing, EUROSAI web page and other electronic media;
• giving presentations and report on peer review topics at varied fora organised by individual INTOSAI regional working groups and other national and international entities.

In 2017 [in the line of the INTOSAI Strategic plan 2017 – 2022, Strategic objectives for Goal 2 (Capacity Development) and Goal 3 (Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Services)  and Crosscutting priority 3 (Ensuring effective development and coordination among standards-setting, capacity development, and knowledge sharing to support SAIs and improve their performance and effectiveness)] the Sub-Committee will conduct a global survey among INTOSAI members followed by a study on topic Peer review as method to apply INTOSAI assessment tools. Selected INTOSAI bodies and possible external partners will be approached to join the project.

 In the spring of 2018 based on the results of the survey and study made (see above) will propose to the INTOSAI community to hold a global seminar topic being Peer review as method to apply INTOSAI assessment tools.

 In 2019 it will publish the results of the global survey, study and global seminar addressing the issues raised by the mentioned events and documents in a comprehensive material summing up the knowledge collected.

The original Peer Review Guide with Checklist adopted as ISSAI 5600 in 2010 was translated into all INTOSAI official languages and some other working versions also were made (in Bengali, Hungarian, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Slovak).

ISSAI 5600 underwent complete reconstruction since 2010. The draft was a subject to extended exposure period for four and half months in the first half of 2016. The exposure draft at www.issai.org registered 30 SAIs/institutions providing 138 comments – 98 were accepted and 40 were noted.

In the period 2017 – 2022, the Sub-Committee will continue to develop and update the existing peer review documentation through global peer review surveys and in the same period, it will further develop the ISSAI 5600 Annex PRAQ to widen the scope of possible peer review areas and provide the best practice examples.

• • Austria
  • Bangladesh (Vice Chair)
  • Croatia
  • Estonia
  • European Court of Auditors
  • Hungary
  • Indonesia
  • Kuwait
  • Morocco
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Slovak Republic (Chair)
  • Sweden
  • Turkey
  • USA

   

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