Project profile — CCAF-FCVI - International Legislative Oversight Program

• Ghana (25.00%)
• Tanzania (25.00%)
• Vietnam (25.00%)
• Cameroon (25.00%)

• Public finance management:
Public finance management (15111) (90.00%)
Legislatures and political parties (15152) (5.00%)
• General Environmental Protection: Environmental policy and administrative management (41010) (5.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (significant objective)

This project aims to improve value for money in public expenditures in Cameroon, Ghana, Tanzania, and Vietnam. This is achieved by building sustainable audit and legislative oversight capacity within the supreme audit institutions and Public Accounts Committees of the four countries, in order to fight corruption, improve governance and accountability, and focus resources on achieving results. The project facilitates the creation of networks and partnerships between Canadian and developing country audit offices and their representative institutions, Public Accounts Committees in Canada and abroad, and donors. The project activities include forensic and environmental audits and support for Public Accounts Committees and other oversight committees. Finally, the project provides internship opportunities for representatives from Cameroon, Ghana, Tanzania, and Vietnam within Canadian audit offices at the federal and provincial levels.

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: enhanced operational capacity and effectiveness of supreme audit institutions in conducting performance auditing in Cameroon, Ghana, Tanzania, and Vietnam, to ensure effective, efficient, and transparent use of public resources; enhanced leadership and operational capacity of Public Accounts Committees to review supreme audit institution reports and follow up on implementation of report recommendations in Cameroon, Ghana, Tanzania, and Vietnam; and strengthened program coordination and policy harmonization, as well as knowledge sharing, among donors, relevant supreme audit institutions, and regional associations.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2018) include: (1) 28 (15 women) auditors were trained and mentored via nine-month placements in Canadian provincial audit offices, 16 (7 women) manager interns were trained in Canada, and more than 794 (227 women) participants were trained through in-country and regional workshop, contributing to enhanced capacity and effectiveness of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) in conducting performance auditing in Cameroon, Ghana, Tanzania, and Vietnam; (2) of the 60 performance audits supported by the project, 40 have been completed, of which 32 have been tabled; (3) five workshops delivered to oversight committees, training 166 participants (51 women), plus seven workshops delivered to SAIs on collaborating and communicating with oversight committees and other stakeholders, training 122 participants (27 women), which has resulted in improved collaboration between the SAIs and oversight committees, and enhanced the capacity of the committees to review performance audits; (4) increased involvement of SAIs in regional activities, including of 34 auditors from partner SAIs who co-facilitated regional workshops, contributing to knowledge sharing and peer-to-peer learning, as well as to improved coordination with other donors, SAIs and regional associations; and (5) a Practice Guide to Auditing Gender Equality was developed, which informs the work of the international audit community.

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