AFROSAI-E 2020-2023
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The African Organisation of English-speaking Supreme Audit Institutions, AFROSAI-E, has applied to Sida for continued core support with a total of 10 MSEK for 2020-2021 to implement the AFROSAI-E strategic plan 2020-2024. AFROSAI-E consists of 26 national Supreme Audit Institutions in African English- and Portuguese-speaking countries. and aims to contribute...
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The African Organisation of English-speaking Supreme Audit Institutions, AFROSAI-E, has applied to Sida for continued core support with a total of 10 MSEK for 2020-2021 to implement the AFROSAI-E strategic plan 2020-2024. AFROSAI-E consists of 26 national Supreme Audit Institutions in African English- and Portuguese-speaking countries. and aims to contribute to their members' capacity and competencies through training, resource materiel, and other kinds of support, and to function as a linkage to other fora, including the international collaboration platform INTOSAI. The secretariat is hosted by the South African SAI - Auditor-General of South Africa, who provides substantive support to the work. An external evaluation from 2018 confirms that AFROSAI-E achieves good results, but that results monitoring could improve. The evaluation recommended AFROSAI-E to continue supporting sub-regional expertise that, in turn, can provide support to members, to decrease costs and make support more easily and less costly available to members. Sida has supported AFROSAI-E since its inception in 2015 and has noticed positive results such as relevant and effective support to member SAIs. After fifteen years of continuous support, this two year period constitutes a phase-out period of Sida support to AFROSAI-E. The Swedish National Audit Office (SNAO) will continue working with AFROSAI-E and the Embassy will coordinate the support to AFROSAI-E with them, in order to phase out the support in the best possible way. In the dialogue with AFROSAI-E financial sustainability will be prioritised, along with results monitoring and gender equality.
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In terms of outcomes from the programs last three years, The Embassy noted a marked improvement from 2020 to 2021, with outcomes migrating from 'Progress made' to 'On track.' Progress was maintained in 2022, with 18 outcomes 'On track' and 11 'On progress'. In its concluding narrative report to the Embassy, AFROSAI-E noted that it would need to be even more targeted in providing capacity building if it were to achieve its objectives by the end of the year. The Embassy assesses the success rate in achieving the intended objectives during 2020-2023 to be 'medium' but is confident that AFROSAI-E has evolved into a sufficiently strong and skilled institution to be able to continue delivering on its goals, even though the Embassy support has ended its support. In terms of evaluating results, no evaluation was done with a specific focus on the last three years. Instead, the "Evaluation of Sida's support to the AFROSAI-E was commissioned to assess Sida's 30-year long support to AFROSAI-E. The evaluation was finalized in April 2022 by the consultancy company NIRAS and it provided a range of conclusions given the uniquely long support period. The evaluation report was summarized in a Briefing which has been made available on Sida's website. The Embassy shares the view expressed by NIRAS evaluation team that although AFROSAIE- remains dependent on donor funding and will in all likelihood always remain dependent on outside funding, Sida's long term commitment and the confidence in AFROSAI-E shown by the movement from project funding to core funding undoubtedly contributed to AFROSAIEs ability to attract other sources of funding and to remain viable over more than 30 years. AFROSAI-E is now widely reported to be amongst the best of regional organisations in the world and the Embassy is confident that the positive journey will continue, provided that AFROSAI-E continues to attract sufficient funding going forward.
For the period 2020-2021, the organizations strategic plan defined the following four main goals and corresponding outcomes: - Goal 1 Professionalise public sector accountancy Expected outcomes: 1) Regional perspectives and expertise are reflected/incorporated in the INTOSAI standards and guidance; 2) Timely, practical and impactful contributions to the Task Force that represent the views of AFROSAI-E; 3) An independent, recognised, sustainable and impact-driven API structure established; 4) Advocacy and support by SAIs for professionalisation efforts; 5) Professional capacity building initiatives in member SAIs to implement professionalisation strategies; 6) Internal training schemes established at SAI-level for aspiring professionals to obtain practical experience. - Goal 2 Empower SAIs for greater audit impact and quality Expected outcomes: 1) SAIs have implemented customised audit manuals in accordance with ISSAIs; 2) SAIs conduct annual internal quality assurance reviews, improving the quality of audits and overall institutional capacity; 3) A high correlation of ICBF results with independent quality assurance reviews; 4) Technical materials developed and/or updated in accordance with ISSAIs, that address issues affecting the public sector e.g. Sustainable Development Goals and the Public Finance Management Reporting Framework. - Goal 3 Transform SAI organisational capabilities for greater impact Expected outcomes: 1) Opportunities created for strategic engagements between SAIs to share knowledge, skills, learnings and experiences; 2) Enhanced organisational credibility including independence; 3) Improved leadership capability and organisational alignment to drive sustainable change; 4) Highly competent, productive and skilled HR Practitioners in the SAI that develop and implement value-added HR Interventions to improve the performance and engagement of SAI Staff. - Goal 4 Lead by example and deliver on their mandate Expected outcomes: 1) Strengthen relationships between AFROSAI-E, partners and donors to become the preferred capacity building regional body; 2) Staff compliment that is capacitated to proactively implement strategic goals and objectives; 3) Effective governance principles implemented to enable oversight; 4) Management information that allows for effective decision making.
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