Progress Report of AFROSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing Activities
The AFROSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing has made significant progress by adopting a work plan, setting objectives, and focusing on strategic pillars such as training, research projects, cooperative audits, and communication. The group aims to provide suitable products to SAIs, increase interest in environmental issues, and facilitate experience sharing among members. Through various training sessions, participating in the development of guidelines, and conducting research projects, the group is enhancing the capacity of its members in environmental auditing. Additionally, cooperative audits and effective communication strategies play a vital role in achieving the group's vision and goals.
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AFROSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing Progress Report on Activities
Background A Work-Plan was adopted in 2014 in Mombassa for the period 2014-2016 The main objectives were : to increase the interest of AFROSAI members for environmental audit, to facilitate environment audits in Africa the practice of
Vision Reaching members needs by providing suitable and usefull products to SAIs Building increasing interest from SAIs on environmental issues and activities Encourage accurate experience sharing among members Have permanent proceedings and an efficient structure to run the Working Group and practical
Strategic pillars Training experience sharing Research projects and cooperative audits Communication and
Training and experience sharing Access of AFROSAI SAIs to Global Training Facility in ICED, India Training sessions on: water issues, impact of environment, fraud and environmental activities, forestry issues mining on corruption in
Training and experience sharing Participating to the development of guidelines documents on: Electronic wastes (AFROSAI-E) Auditing (AFROSAI-E) EIA activities
Reasearch projects Medical wastes management Agriculture environment Pollution from transport Using mentors and subject matter experts for environmental audits activities on the
Cooperative audits Lake Chad joint audit River Nile cooperative audit Congo basin cooperative audit forest
Communication Increase members interest in EA and having new memberships Participation to INTOSAI WGEA and other regional WGEA s activities and projects Regurlar and successful organization of annual meetings Capacity building of the Secretariat
Acheivements TRAINING Several training sessions have been organised on: Environmental issues in mining, Fraud and corruption in environmental activities, Water issues, Auditing environmental infrastructures, issues in
Acheivements TRAINING Successful and active participation of African SAIs in the INTOSAI Global Training Facility in ICED According to ICED Management, African SAIs represent a third of participants in their environmental sessions since 2014. audit training
Acheivements TRAINING African SAIs participated in the Forestry Audit training course organised by SAI Indonesia in 2014. We expect some SAIs to attend the 2016 session
Acheivements Research Projects and cooperative audits The Lake Chad successfully completed in 2015 and five reports have been tables in the 04 participating SAIs: Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger and Chad. A project on the River Niger Basin is added to AFROSAI WGEA portfolio of cooperative audits. joint audit was
Acheivements Communication Annual meetings are now a tradition More AFROSAI members are showing interest in environmental audit activities and take part in our annual meetings Information on environmental auditing standards, materials and professional skills are now regularly shared among AFROSAI member SAIs
Report Main resolutions of the 4th Annual Meeting Proceed with communication on the 2016th training activities at ICED, in SAI India Continue discussions possible costumized training session for African SAIs with ICED on
Report Main resolutions of the 4th Annual Meeting Proceed with information of the Nile Basin Council of Ministers Prepare a planning meeting with the participating SAIs in one of the Nile Basin countries Proceed with planning and launching the cooperative audit on Congo Basin forests
Report Main resolutions of the 4th Annual Meeting Prepare SAIs environmental challenges, especially the Sustainable Development Agreements on Climate Change Look for funding possibilities for our cooperative audit projects for the upcoming Goals and
Report Contact letters were sent to the the Tanzanian Minister of Water Resources who served as President of the Council of Ministers of the Nile Basin Initiative until 14th July 2016 A reply is awaited. We also had discussions with the African Development Bank that has renewed its interest for this project ain the month of July. ADB is planning to fund the audit project. Proceed with information of the Nile Basin Council Ministers of
Report We are looking forward to have contacts again with the newly elected President of the Council of Ministers of the Nile Basin Initiative, the Ugandan Minister of Water Resources We are also looking forward to organising a planning meeting on this audit project with SAIs involved in the project in one the River Nile Basin countries Proceed with information of the Nile Basin Council Ministers of
Report After countries hosting the Congo Basin, a special information session will take place as a side event of our 6th Annual Meeting A planning meeting will follow before the end of this year as we succeeded in finding funding from GIZ consultation with SAIs of Proceed with the Basin cooperative audit Congo forest
Report Information about the 2016 edition of the training Introduction to EA in India was sent to all AFROSAI SAIs We are currently having discussions with ICED Management to finalise training programs for African SAIs that are based on their needs. 25 auditors is the least number needed for each training session course on Training session at ICED
Report We have been giving continuous update information Environmental activities within INTOSAI We conducted a survey to collect feedback from AFROSAI members in order to improve on the WGEA activities about related Continuous communication Audit
Report We look forward to ensuring that African SAIs contribute to INTOSAI WGEA next survey on environmental auditing We also look forward to African SAIs participation at the 17th INTOSAI WGEA Annual meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia from October, 24- 27, 2016 Continuous communication
Report AFROSAI conducted a survey to collect the needs of SAIs and have their feedback on activities Working Group Results of this survey and outputs of our various discussion sessions during this meeting will nurture activities to be inserted in the a draft document for the next Work- Plan WGEA Secretariat Survey development of the next Work- Plan for period 2019 and of the the 2017-
