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World Environment Day is celebrated globally each year on 5 June. Thousands of communities celebrate this United Nations Environment-led initiative world-wide. On this day, citizens from around the world are reminded that they have a responsibility to take ownership of their environment and to actively engage in the protection of our beautiful planet.

Accountants general, auditors general and the accounting profession are collaborating to build capacity of accounting professionals that are capacitated to meet the needs of the public sector.

The 5^th meeting of the African Professionalisation Initiative’s Interim Oversight Board (IOB) was held at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 2 May 2018. For the first time, the IOB was fully constituted with 15 members, as was envisaged in its terms of reference.

The winner of the coveted annual Best Performance Audit Prize in the AFROSAI-E region was announced this morning during the first day of the 2018 Strategic Review and Governing Board meeting. The report entitled, The Provision of Mental Healthcare Services in Kenya, was carried out by David Nyakiana, Joseph Gor and Vivienne Khatundi from the Office of the Auditor General of Kenya.

We’ve wasted no time to start the new year off with several exciting events and interventions, the first of which was hosting members of AFROSAI for an Institutional Strengthening meeting in January. This was followed by a meeting with the Good Financial Governance network partners, namely ATAF, AFROPAC, AFROSAI and CABRI to further agree on the way forward on the Declaration on Illicit Financial Flows. In addition, meetings were held with the INTOSAI IDI and Donor Secretariat to discuss areas of collaboration to support SAIs in the region. Click here to read more on this meeting. Click read more below to learn more about the other events. 

IDI, AFROSAI-E and CREFIAF have established a partnership to contribute to the greater performance of the most challenged SAIs.This partnership has been established to follow the new Tier 2 initiative of the Global Call for Proposals (GCP). The SAIs included in the initiative are The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Madagascar, Guinea, Togo and Niger (French-speaking, CREFIAF members), Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Gambia (English speaking, AFROSAI-E members). How many of these SAIs to be supported by the Tier 2 Partners is expected to be clarified in mid-2018.