Yearly Archives: 2019

2019

The major thrusts of the meeting organized by the Technical Commission on Good Governance Practices (CTPBG), presided over by Argentina’s General Audit Office (AGN), were to make oversight work more accessible, written in understandable language, and for there to be good communications strategy. For the first time, communications heads from 20 Latin American and Caribbean […]

In 2017, in line with the “Declaration of Punta Cana”, signed at the 26th OLACEFS Ordinary General Assembly in the Dominican Republic, the Commission for Citizen Participation, under the presidency of the SAI of Paraguay, for the first time gathered information from full members of the Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Supreme Audit Institutions […]

A meeting of the extended executive committee for the OLACEFS-GIZ project took place in Brasilia, Brazil, on March 11, 2019, in the context of implementing the project “Strengthening External Control in the Environmental Field”, arranged by OLACEFS and the German Cooperation for International Cooperation GIZ. The aim of the meeting was to learn about the […]

On April 12, 2019, the city of Lima will host the 69th ordinary meeting of the governing board of the Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Supreme Audit Institutions (OLACEFS). On April 11 there will be a meeting of the technical teams. The event has been organized by the Office of the Comptroller General of […]

With the support of the Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Supreme Audit Institutions (OLACEFS) and the Supreme Court of Auditors of Honduras (TSC), officials from the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Chile conducted a Self-Assessment Workshop on Integrity “SAINT” at the Department of Education of Honduras, between February 25 – […]

Corruption is not only an economic phenomenon affecting the growth of nations, it also undermines democracy. This was the opinion of Comptroller General of the Republic of Chile and Executive Secretary of OLACEFS Jorge Bermúdez, at the opening of the workshop “Digital Government, Integrity Policies and Corruption Prevention Mechanisms in APEC Economies”, held this Wednesday, […]

The Pacific Institution of Supreme Audit Institutions (PASAI) concluded its first regional course for training IntoSAINT moderators, which was held online between January 21 and February 8, 2019, and face-to-face on February 18 and 19, 2019, in Wellington, New Zealand. The course was inspired by OLACEFS’ experience with the same training project in 2013, and […]

After an adaptation process starting in 2017 in Lima, Peru, the INTOSAI Development Initiative – IDI – started an eLearning course in the context of the audit of institutional frameworks to combat corruption. The participation of 12 OLACEFS member Supreme Audit Institutions brings the total to 85 participants. At the same time, with the help […]

The Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (CAROSAI) held its first regional course to train IntoSAINT moderators, which took place on February 4 and 5, 2019, in Kingston, Jamaica. The training was given by Mexico’s Superior Audit Office of the Federation (ASF) in its capacity as presidency holders of the IntoSAINT Project Group for INTOSAI’s […]

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 for 2019. The schedule can be found by following this link: See Calendar

The Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Peru, in coordination with the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI), organized an advanced course on the measurement of performance of supreme audit institutions, which was held on February 12, 13 and 14 in Lima, Peru. The course is part of activities planned in the Annual Operational […]

On February 13, 2019, the signing ceremony for the handover of the presidency of the Technical Commission for the Assessment of Achievement and Performance Indicators (CEDEIR) was held. CEDEIR is a technical body of the Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Supreme Audit Institutions (OLACEFS). The formal act was attended by the heads of the […]

Dear members of the INTOSAI: The INTOSAI CBC Subcommittee on Cooperative Audits, aware of the relevance of cooperative audits as a learning tool, has developed a Virtual Catalogue to be used as a reference source for SAIs interested on conducting a cooperative audit, as well as worldwide repository of the cooperative audits carried out. The […]

On January 23 the act of transferring the OLACEFS Presidency (Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Supreme Audit Institutions) to the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Peru, was carried out by the Superior Audit Office of the Federation of Mexico, for the period 2019-2021, in Mexico City, Mexico. (see video and […]

The Information and Communication Technologies Commission (CTIC) of the Organization of Latin American and Caribbean Supreme Audit Institutions (OLACEFS), cordially invites all interested parties to present technical and economic proposals to develop the ODS.OLACEFS project. The aim of the ODS.OLACEFS project is to promote cooperation among the Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) of the region through […]

Through Resolution 12/2018/AG, the XXVIII OLACEFS Ordinary General Assembly delegated to the board the power accorded in section XIII of Article 11 of the Regulations to approve the 2019 Annual Operating Plans (AOPs) and the 2019 OLACEFS budget for 2019, to be done virtually by December 2018 at the latest. Also, the issues of the […]