1. REGIONAL WGEA MEETING AFROSAI 28th .January, 2009 DOHA – QATAR
since December, Tanzania assumed the role of coordinator in environmental auditing within AFROSAI.

2. Members present Tanzania Zimbabwe Lesotho Botswana Zambia South Africa
Swaziland
Uganda
Angola
Kenya
Ethiopia
Rwanda
Malawi
Namibia
Ivory coast

3. Agenda
welcoming members and introducing to them the subject matter for discussion
Formulation of the AFROSAI – WGEA Steering Committee
Introduction of AFROSAI – WGEA work plan

4. AFROSAI – WGEA STEERING COMMITTEE
There is need for the AFROSAI – RWGEA to establish a Steering Committee in the region in order to accelerate the Environmental Audit in our region. This agenda was discussed in the AFROSAI –RWGEA meeting and the following were the decisions;-

5. DECISION TAKEN
Concerning the membership of the Steering Committee, the AFROSAI –RWGEA coordinator will get in touch with the AFROSAI secretariat in Tripoli Libya, informing it about the need of forming the Steering Committee
The AFROSAI –RWGEA will contact the membership of the working group informing to involve them to be members of the steering committee
The AFROSAI –RWGEA coordinator should bring the issue of steering committee to the AFROSAI governing board meeting scheduled to take place in February 2009.in Pretoria South Africa
The AFROSAI –RWGEA coordinator shall communicate to the members of the working group the outcome of the Pretoria meeting in regard to steering committee membership

6. WORK PLAN
Tanzania as a coordinator of the working group introduced the draft work plan which it had prepared to the meeting, which was discussed and the following was agreed:-
The presented work plan was to be presentent and discussed in the AFROSAI Governing Board meeting in February Pretoria, South Africa
Tanzania will distribute the work plan for comment to all the working group members, present in the Doha meeting for comments,
It was agreed that members should comment within a period of one week in order to give time for the secretariat to finalize the draft copy to be submitted to the AFROSAI governing body meeting to take place in 2009, in Pretoria South Africa
It was agreed that the work plan should indicate time frame of accomplishment of the envisaged activities To include the timeline in the work plan
There will be annual technical meeting to review the performance of the working groups

7. FUNDING OF THE AUDITS
TRAINING
It was re- emphasized on the need for the capacity building through training on Environmental Auditing activities
It was reminded that the region was lucky to have capable trainers on environmental audit from both IDI and AFROSAI-E
SAI members of the working group were urged to sponsor their staff to all environmental audit trainings to be organized in the region

8. SUBMISION OF IMFORMATION ON EA
As members of the WGEA assembly, Members the AFROSAI- RWGEA were encouraged to respond to the EA information form conducted by the WGEA secretariat so that the EA, activities taking place in the region can be captured and shared with others through the RWGEA newsletter

9. CLOSING OF THE MEETING
The meeting was closed by the chairperson thanking members for their contributions and ensuring them that they will get feedback of the outcome of the AFROSAI Governing Body meeting to take place in February in Pretoria South Africa

10. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
LUDOVICK L.S.L UTOUH