Key stakeholders from INTOSAI met to brainstorm an implementation strategy for the programme.
OAG Somalia has been assessing its own operations compare to the international standards for auditing.
IDI Product Development Meeting, held in New York, USA, from 27 – 29 July 2016. The resource team started to write a guidance on preparedness for implementation of SDGs.
IDI Planning meeting for the Auditing SDGs programme, held in Vienna, Austria, from 15-16 March 2016.
The above-mentioned workshops were held in Yaoundé, Cameroon from 20 June to 1 July 2016. A resource team of four experts from Cameroon, DR Congo, Gabon and Senegal reviewed iCATs (ISSAI Compliance Assessment Tools) conducted by 17 SAIs during the iCAT review workshop for Compliance Audit. 30 participants from 17 SAIs participated in this workshop. SAI teams also developed the first draft of their ISSAI Implementation.
As part of the IDI-OLACEFS ISSAI based Cooperative audit programme, the workshop on Performance Audit on fighting against poverty was held in Quito, Ecuador, from 25 to 29 April 2016. There were participants from SAI Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru and Paraguay.
The IDI organized 3i Performance Audit product maintenance meeting in Oslo, Norway from 20 to 24 June 2016. Under the 3i Programme phase I, IDI developed and revised the performance audit ISSAI Compliance Assessment Tool (iCAT) and the performance audit ISSAI Implementation Handbook, from 2012 to 2014.
Under 3i Phase II Pilot programme, SAI Bhutan is currently conducting a mapping exercise on ‚Moving towards ISSAI compliance‚. The mapping exercise commenced from 8 August 2016 and is due to complete by 30 September. A two week workshop on conducting ISSAI based audit that was delivered to a team from SAI Bhutan in August 2016 also covered sessions on conducting this mapping exercise.
The 3i Phase II SAI level support is currently being piloted in SAI Bhutan. As a first step towards implementing this project, the three IDI resource persons in collaboration with six mentors from SAI Bhutan had delivered a workshop on conducting ISSAI based audit for a duration in two weeks in iCISA, Noida, India from 25 July to 5 August 2016 to a group of 60 participants.