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Working during and after the pandemic: building on the experience of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) for strengthening effective institutions and achieving sustainable societies
Virtual Meeting
Technical Chair: SAI United Kingdom Time is indicated in UTC (12:00 UTC = 14:00 Vienna = 08:00 New York) |
► Monday, 28 June 2021 — UTC 12:00–16:00
Introduction and opening addresses
| Welcome | INTOSAI General Secretariat | |
| 1. | Opening address | Margit Kraker, INTOSAI Secretary General |
| Opening message | Aleksei Kudrin, INTOSAI Chairman | |
| 2. | Opening address | Liu Zhenmin, UN Under-Secretary-General |
Sub-theme 1 – Part A
Impact of COVID-19 on SAIs’ organizational capacities, working methods and processes
Moderation: European Court of Auditors
| 3. | Building public trust and confidence in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic response (role played by the SAIs) | World Bank |
| 4. | Case SAO Hungary – capacity enhancement (re)actions in a significantly changing environment | SAI Hungary |
| 5. | Conducting audit during the COVID-19 pandemic | SAI Mongolia |
| 6. | Impact of COVID-19 on the SAI of Bhutan (update 24/06) | SAI Bhutan |
| Discussion (Leading Statement: SAI India) |
Sub-theme 1 – Part B
Impact of COVID-19 on SAIs’ organizational capacities, working methods and processes
Moderation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
► Tuesday, 29 June 2021 — UTC 12:00–16:00
Sub-theme 2
Experiences and good practices in auditing the COVID-19 responses and recovery plans
Moderation: SAI United Kingdom
| 11. | Experience in auditing incentive payments to health employees during the pandemic | SAI Russian Federation |
| 12. | COVID-19 impact on planning and publishing policies in the French Cour des comptes | SAI France |
| 13. | Collaborative Audit to Enhance Quality and Coverage of Audit on COVID-19 Response and National Economics Recovery | SAI Indonesia |
| 14. | Experiences and good practices in auditing the COVID-19 responses and recovery plans | SAI Iraq |
| 15. | Audits of urgent financing towards COVID-19: SAACB experience in auditing the support program to workers affected by the state of emergency | SAI Palestine |
| Discussion (Leading Statement: SAI Austria) |
Sub-theme 3
Innovative approaches to enhancing the transparency of and accountability for the COVID-19 responses
Moderation: The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)
| 16. | Budget transparency – also in times of COVID-19 | SAI Germany |
| 17. | Enhancing transparency and accountability for the COVID-19 responses: challenges and opportunities for SAIs | SAI United Arab Emirates |
| 18. | Internal integration and external stakeholder collaboration as critical success factors during COVID-19 response-audits | SAI South Africa |
| 19. | Innovation through intensive data use for efficient auditing | SAI Chile |
| 20. | Strengthening cooperation of SAIs and anti-corruption agencies for more transparency and accountability in crisis response and recovery | UNODC |
| Discussion (Leading Statement: SAI Estonia) |
► Wednesday, 30 June 2021 — UTC 12:00–15:30
Sub-theme 4
Resilient accountability systems and institutions in the aftermath of COVID-19
Moderation: SAI Paraguay
| 21. | Strengthening Emergency Response and Oversight through International Cooperation | SAI United States of America |
| 22. | Role of SAIs in building back better | IDI |
| 23. | Challenges in auditing the use of public funds in accordance with the audit objectives defined against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic; the experience of El Salvador | SAI El Salvador |
| 24. | Citizen participation as a mechanism to strengthen institutions and democracy (updated version, July 9) | SAI Argentina |
| 25. | Strengthening accountability systems and institutions during a pandemic | SAI Kenya |
| Discussion (Leading Statement: International Budget Partnership (IBP); SAI Italy) |
Conclusions and recommendations (summary and closing)
| 26. | Discussion and adoption of the conclusions and recommendations of the symposium | All participants |
| Closing statements | Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Margit Kraker, |