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New Auditors-General in our Region

Congratulations to the following new Auditors-General in our region:

  • Ms Themba Nxumalo - Swaziland
  • Ms Lara Taylor-Pearce - Sierra Leone
  • Mr Edward Ouko - Kenya

We wish them a fruitful and happy term!

The 6th annual Technical Update will take place at the ABSA Conference Centre, Pretoria, South Africa from Wednesday, 23 to Friday, 25 November 2011

The following topics will be presented at the Technical Update 2011 concerning Environmental Auditing

  • The launch of an AFROSAI-E document, which will provide a summary of all INTOSAI WGEA guidance materials on environmental themes. The auditors will therefore have a single guide on how they can access and make effective use of the present INTOSAI WGEA guidance materials.
  • Two guest speakers during the Friday, 25 November 2011 morning session on the following topics:
    • “The role of the environmental audit in the auditing of public entities with emphasis on the interfaces with other disciplines”.
    • “Role and Responsibility of AFROSAI-Chair of WGEA". The resolutions of the 1st AFROSA-WGEA meeting and the progress report will also be discussed.

The 1st Meeting of AFROSAI – Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA) was held at Naura Springs Hotel, Arusha, Tanzania, 3rd - 7th October 2011

The 1st meeting of the AFROSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA) was held from 3rd – 7th October in Tanzania. Participants from more than 10 African SAIs were attending the meeting.

The working group has been instrumental in encouraging SAIs to conduct audits of environmental issues and programs and in helping them to build the capacity to do so. Since 2007, when Tanzania assumed the role of coordinator of AFROSAI WGEA, many environmental audits have been conducted, encompassing all types of audit: regularity (financial and compliance) and performance.

Annual meeting of the Governing Board of AFROSAI-E held in Maseru

The Auditor General of Lesotho, Mrs Lucy Liphafa, hosted the annual meeting of the Governing Board of AFROSAI-E in Maseru in April 2010. This event included a technical update and workshop for top executives from the 23 member SAIs of the organization. The theme for this year’s meeting was “Human Resource Management in an SAI.”

The English language sub-group of AFROSAI is doing its share to rejuvenate the organization. A new operating structure was on the table for approval when the Board of Governors met in Gabon in August 2010. Since July 2010 AFROSAI is supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the German development cooperation agency. The two long-term advisers, Ms Emma Kellner (Senior Project Manager) and Mr Sascha Baum (Project Manager), are hosted by the AFROSAI-E Secretariat in Pretoria, South Africa.