Yearly Archives: 2017

2017

A face-to-face meeting of the OLACEFS Capacity Building Committee (CCC) took place in Quito, Ecuador, on April 18 – 19, 2017, and was attended by representatives from the various SAI members. Those present included Deputy Comptroller General of the State of the Republic of Ecuador Dr. Pablo Celi; Minister Augusto Nardes, President of the CCC; […]

The first Meeting of the Forum of Latin American and Caribbean Countries on Sustainable Development 2017 took place in Mexico City from April 26 – 28, 2017.  The OLACEFS community is invited to follow the live broadcast from April 26, 12.30 am Mexican time:  In Spanish: http://foroalc2030.cepal.org/2017/es/transmision-en-vivo  In Portuguese: http://foroalc2030.cepal.org/2017/pt/transmissao-ao-vivo  In English: http://foroalc2030.cepal.org/2017/en/live-transmission  Please see […]

On March 20 – 23 in Buenos Aires, the OLACEFS Information Technology and Communications Commission (CTIC), chaired by the Auditor General of the Nation Dr. Francisco J. Fernández, held a working meeting at the offices of the AGN on the Design of the Knowledge Management System eLearning Course. This activity is part of the Commission’s […]

The CTICis making the official Spanish translation of the WGITA– IDI Handbook on IT Audit for Supreme Audit Institutions available to the entire OLACEFS community. Given that government and public sector operations are increasingly computerized, the auditing of information technology has become one of the central themes of audits conducted by Supreme Audit Institutions worldwide. […]

In February 2017, the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) released the 2017 Global Survey, whose overall aims are: 1)    To gather information and data to guide capacity-building efforts within INTOSAI (including information on IDI, on regional organizations – including OLACEFS – and on the INTOSAI Committees); 2)    To measure progress in the performance of SAIs’ in […]

The launch of the book Oversight and Quality of Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean – The Role of the Legislative Authority and Supreme Audit Institutions took place on Thursday, March 23 of this year in San Salvador. It is based on an investigation by Dafina Dimitrova, Nelson Shack Yalta, Salvador Delgado-Garza and Ulises […]

The CTPBG has the pleasure of inviting all officials from OLACEFS member institutions to participate in the 2017 Competition for the Recovery of Values. In the 2017 competition, the theme is the role and challenges of SAIs in the evaluation and analysis of public policies and their coherence with complying with SDGs” For more information, […]

The Chair of the OLACEFS Citizen Participation Commission (CPC), in collaboration with the Civil Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ), coordinated the Webinar “2030 Agenda and Gender – the Role of SAIs in Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals”, held in the context of the upcoming coordinated audit on SDG 5 (gender equality), which will assess the […]

On the afternoon of March 27, the first videoconference of the Technical Commission on Good Governance Practices (CTPBG) was held in order to choose the Supreme Audit Institution to hold the presidency for the period 2017-2020. The General Audit Office of Argentina was reelected and will continue to preside over the CTPBG until 2020. Auditor […]

The Presidency of the OLACEFS Citizen Participation Commission (CPC) extends an invitation to participate in the Webinar “2030 Agenda and Gender – the role of SAIs in monitoring Sustainable Development Goals”, where background on the gender-focused audit will be presented along with regional challenges to progress in implementing SDG 5 in the area of gender […]

After its first three years in operation, the Technical Commission on Good Governance Practices (CTPBG) is renewing its officials. The CTPBG is the newest commission created in the ambit of OLACEFS. The Commission’s Terms of Reference, Action Points and Work Plan were established on April 29, 2014 in Havana, Cuba, and the General Audit Office […]

In the course of its activities, the CTPBG, brings to the attention of the OLACEFS community a study carried out by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Public Governance. The publication “Supreme Audit Institutions and Good Governance. Oversight, Insight and Foresight”, is the result of a survey and peer reviews of ten leading SAIs from […]

The OLACEFS Capacity Building Committee (CCC), in its function of supporting Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) in the generation and enhancement of their professional and institutional competences, announces the schedule of virtual courses beginning in March 2017. The schedule can be found by following this link: Virtual Courses Schedule 2017 

The INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) would like to inform the SAI community of the new and modern graphic interface of its website: http://www.idi.no/ The IDI´s new platform provides information on capacity building initiatives as well as the latest news on the INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation, the 3i Program, and other important issues. The Spanish version of the […]

Call for Applicants The Commission for Information Technology and Communications (CTIC) invites those SAIs wishing to receive face-to-face training on the Knowledge Management System (KMS) in their institutions, to make an application. The CTIC has scheduled 4/5 face-to-face workshops in its Annual Operating Plan, aimed at current and potential KMS users. What is KMS It […]

A vacancy is on offer for the position of Senior Regional Technical Consultant, as part of the Environmental Audits program being carried out at regional level by OLACEFS, through the German Cooperation Agency GIZ. The post is based in Brasilia, Brazil. For more details please see the following document: Vacancy for Senior Regional Technical Consultant […]