News from the INTOSAI Development Initiative Nordic-Baltic Meeting Vilnius, Lithuania, 2-3 September 2004 Magnus Borge Director General INTOSAI Development Initiative

IDI Annual Report 2003 Reports on all global and regional activities Accounts for 2003, including an estimate of in-kind contributions from SAIs

EUROSAI LTRTP Phase 2 Coverage: SAIs in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Central Asia Bilingual (Russian and English) Programme Orientation and Skills Assessment Workshop, Russia, February 2004

EUROSAI Phase 2 CDDW Location: Sofia, Bulgaria, April-June 2004 Number of participants: 33 from 19 SAIs 1 lead instructor and 2 co-instructors; assistance from the SAIs of Latvia and Poland 2 subject matter experts for each language group Preparation of an 8-day course on performance auditing

EUROSAI LTRTP Phase 2 (continued) Instructional Techniques Workshop: Vilnius, Lithuania, September 2004 Two design meetings Two workshop deliveries

IDI co-operation with INTOSAI Standing Committees & Working Groups Environmental auditing  Two-week workshop developed  Delivered twice, in Turkey and Kenya  Environmental auditing action plans Public debt auditing  Two-week workshop developed by “Champions”  Delivered twice, in Colombia and Dominican Republic  Pilot audit, Venezuela Survey of SAIs

Other developments E-learning  Pilot performance auditing course in OLACEFS  Other courses may follow IDI International Directory of Training Courses  Course materials can be ordered by SAIs  Quality-assured regional or global courses