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4th Profile Slot AFROSAI

4th Profile Slot AFROSAI. Su mmary. Few words on AFROSAI Some Success Stories: Learning by doing through cooperative Audit s CREFIAF Gender Strategy AFROSAI E Achievements N ext challenges : Inter-regional cooperation Cooperation with African Reginal Organisation.

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4th Profile Slot AFROSAI

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  1. 4th Profile SlotAFROSAI

  2. Summary Few words on AFROSAI Some Success Stories: • Learning by doing through cooperative Audits • CREFIAF Gender Strategy • AFROSAI E Achievements Next challenges: • Inter-regional cooperation • Cooperation with African Reginal Organisation

  3. Few words on AFROSAI AFROSAI is the African Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions • founded in November 1976 in yaoundé following the recommendations of INTOSAI Congress, held in Madrid in 1974 • 53 SAIs members, coming from different systems : • Courts of Accounts/ Courts of Audit • Auditors’ General Office • State Inspections/Comptrollers

  4. Few words on AFROSAI promote and develop the exchange of information and experiences among SAIs of African States in the area of public finance auditing 03Linguistic Sub-Groups: • CREFIAF:23 SAI members speaking mainly French • AFROSAI-E:25 SAI members, speaking mainly English • AFROSAI-A:7 SAI members, speaking Arabic

  5. 1st Success Story: Learning by doing through Cooperative Audit Case of the Lake Chad Joint Audit

  6. Lake Chad joint Audit • Use of ISSAI standards and CBC Guidelines • Training acitivities • Mentoring Coming from experienced SAIs • Use of Scientific and External Experts • Communication Strategy for the reports

  7. Key achievements of this pilot cooperative Audit • the added value ofMentoring and distance coaching provided by SAIs of Canada, Tanzania, Kenya, Morroco, Belgium with the support of GIZ • SAIs have developed tricks and skills to sell the reports to key external stakeholders (Parliament, government, regional organization and especially the Citizen) • AFROSAI was able to bring together Auditors coming from different systems, such asCourt of Accounts (for Niger and Chad), Auditor General for Nigeria and hybrid System for Cameroon • New joint cooperative Audit are planned on topics like: poaching for AFROSAI-E, the River Nile, the Congo Basin Forest

  8. 2nd Success Story CREFIAF GENDER STRATEGY FOR SAIs

  9. Objectives of Gender Strategy for SAIs • Promote women's access to the auditing profession and enhance the female human resources within SAIs • Create awareness on gender issues • Develop a methodology which integrates gender in the audit public finances

  10. Design Process of the Gender Strategy Technical Working Group on Gender and Developmentcarried out a survey in the SAIs of CREFIAF in 2010 Analyses of data fromstakeholders on determinants of disparitiesbetween men and women Analyses of the resultsfromthissurveywhichrevealedhugedisparitiesbetween men and women

  11. Prioritystrategicthrusts • Promotion of women’s access to decision-making positions and audit professions and strengthening of women’s capacities in SAIs • Institutional ownership of the gender approach • Incorporation of gender as a subject and criteria of performance audit in public finance management

  12. EXPECTED OUTCOMES • significant increase, within SAIs, of the number of women in Audit staff • gender mainstreaming in SAIs as criterion and subjectforperformance audit WAY FORWARD • Each SAI isgoing to carry out experimentalactivities to implementthisstrategy • There are consultations going on, on how to adaptthisstrategy to the whole of the AFROSAI community

  13. AFROSA-E KNOWLEDGE SHARING

  14. Who we are One of the three AFROSAI subgroups E→ English-speaking Mission:AFROSAI-E is committed to cooperate with and support its member SAIs to successfully fulfil their mandates by helping them to reach the highest possible level of achievement of the objectives outlined in the region’s institutional capacity building framework.

  15. AFROSAI-E member countries Mauritius Swaziland Ghana Seychelles Angola Botswana Kenya Mozambique Tanzania Sierra Leone South Africa Uganda Ethiopia Lesotho Namibia Nigeria Eritrea Liberia South Sudan Zambia Malawi The Gambia Rwanda Sudan Zimbabwe

  16. AFROSAI-E institutional partners and donors

  17. Governance structure (Statutes) Governing Board 25 Members Institutional & other partners / Donors Subcommittees Chief Executive Officer Human Resources Executive Officer Finance Executive Secretariat Audit Capacity building Planning Committee Technical Committee Subject Matter Experts

  18. Secretariat staff structure • Approved structure: 17 employees • 11 Technical (66%), 6 admin (33%) • 7 (41%) female, 10 (59%) male

  19. Our capacity building approach ICBF Needs of SAIs Gap analysis • Quality reviews • Self assessments • Workshops • Operations • Requests Annual Work Plan Corporate Plan - Strategic imperative - Operational interventions Annual Report Activity Report Value and Benefit

  20. How do we operate? INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING FRAMEWORK Independence and legal framework Organisation and management Audit standards and methodology Human resources Communication and stakeholder management Strategic imperatives Operational interventions (core business)

  21. Our Products and Services • Products • Guidelines • Training courses (material) • Manuals e.g. RAM & PAM • Handbook • Services • Research and development • Training events • Management development program • Bilateral support programs

  22. What we achieved in 2013

  23. Regional Assessment based on ICBF Domains

  24. Measuring Performance Annual Integrated Report Annual activity report www.afrosai-e.org.za

  25. What do we plan for the future? Continuation of products and services Professionalisation Leadership development program for top executives Collaborative audits Communication Information technology

  26. AFROSAI NEXT CHALLENGES

  27. Inter regional and cross regional cooperation AFROSAI took two major steps in inter-regional cooperation as concerns capacity building of its Member SAIs. In this regard, two MOUs have been signed

  28. Areas of cooperation • Institutionnal Capacity • Distance Learning • Cooperatives and Coordinated Audits • Performance and Environmental Auditing • Knowledge Management and Knowledge sharing • Peer reviewsand SAI PMF • Communication with external Stakelholders • Innovation

  29. Cooperation with African Regional Organisation the value and impact of African SAIsare still not enough knownand visible to Africanpoliticalorganizations

  30. Cooperation with African Regional Organisation • promote the independence of SAIs • advocate for strengthening the mandate of SAIs • promote the value and benefits of SAIs in the context of emerging economies in Africa and to ensure sustainable development Inspired by the approach adopted by INTOSAI with UN,AFROSAI planned to

  31. www.afrosai.com www.crefiaf.org afrosai-e.org.za GraciasMerciThank youشكرا لكObrigadoAsanté Sana

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