1. Item #6 PROGRESS REPORT ON THE
PROJECT RELATED TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ISSAI 12 PRINCIPLES: Existing Challenges and Good Practices
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown and Mr. Simon Likela, Office of the Auditor General of Namibia
Mr. Charles Baloyi, Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa
September 6, 2017

2. Implementation of ISSAI 12 Agreement, 7th WGVBS Meeting (2014)
At the 7th WGVBS meeting, members agreed to create a Task Force (Mexico, Namibia and South Africa) to map, through a survey, activities carried out by SAIs, which are helpful to implement the ISSAI 12 Principles.

3. Questionnaire on Implementation of ISSAI 12 (2015-2016) A project with a two-fold objective
Exchange knowledge and experiences
Contribute to make a difference to the lives of citizens
1) Identify the main principles, which are most challenging to apply in SAIs
2) Detect good practices and lessons learned

4. A more reliable sample of the WGVBS
Questionnaire on Implementation of ISSAI 12 ( ) Second part of questionnaire
2016 Re-launch of survey among WGVBS members (after the 2015 Nanjing meeting)
Purpose:
A more reliable sample of the WGVBS

5. Questionnaire on Implementation of ISSAI 12 (2015-2016) Participating SAIs
Deadline: July 15th 2016
Reminder submitted
Responses from 18 WGVBS member SAIs
Result: WGVBS members’ response  a more reliable sample of INTOSAI Community

6. Questionnaire on Implementation of ISSAI 12 ( ) Responses / Most challenging principles to be implemented
Principle 3: Enabling those charged with public sector governance to discharge their responsibilities in responding to audit findings and recommendations and taking appropriate corrective action
Principle 6: Communicating effectively with stakeholders
Principle 7: Being a credible source of independent and objective insight and guidance to support beneficial change in the public sector
Principle 9: Ensuring good governance of SAIs
Principle 11: Striving for service excellence and quality

7. ISSAI 12 Most Challenging Principles Identification SAIs practice for their actual implementation
Objective: gather concrete examples that SAIs carry out to comply with those principles
Sample of the SAIs Community: Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North and Latin-America.
Questionnaire (to compile good practices and support evidence)
Interviews (to deepen on the information shared in the questionnaire)

8. 45 SAIs invited to participate
ISSAI 12 Most Challenging Principles Identification SAIs practice for their actual implementation
AFROSAI
11 members
ARABOSAI
1 member
ASOSAI
2 members
EUROSAI
7 members
OLACEFS
22 members
NO REGION
45 SAIs invited to participate

9. United States of America
ISSAI 12 Most Challenging Principles Identification SAIs practice for their actual implementation
Austria
Belize
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
Ethiopia
France
Guatemala
Honduras
Indonesia
Kenya
Mexico
Namibia
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
South Africa
Tanzania
United States of America
Venezuela
Zimbabwe
Response from 24 SAIs
WGVBS members

10. ISSAI 12 Most Challenging Principles Identification SAIs practice for their actual implementation
FURTHER RESULTS
Survey proof the growing culture towards knowledge sharing amongst SAIs.
SAIs responses stated good practices as implemented.
Not all SAIs included supporting documents.

11. ISSAI 12 Most Challenging Principles Identification SAIs practice for their actual implementation
CHALLENGES
Time period to collect responses- somewhat limited.
Language barrier impact on the communication towards responses.
Data collection method of Video conferencing not always best for all regions, while common method of s not always successful.

12. WAY FORWARD
Extention to collect more responses from SAIs- to ensure a more reasonable sample per region.
Task Force to collate/summarise responses and report to the WGVBS timely.
Encourage SAIs to attach supporting documents (proof of implementation).
Draft guidance material for 11th WGVBS meeting (2019)

13. Item #6 PROGRESS REPORT ON THE
PROJECT RELATED TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ISSAI 12 PRINCIPLES: Existing Challenges and Good Practices
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown and Mr. Simon Likela, Office of the Auditor General of Namibia
Mr. Charles Baloyi, Office of the Auditor-General of South Africa
September 6, 2017