Tag: diversity equity and inclusion

As SAIs navigate today’s rapidly evolving technological and regulatory advancements, the morality, resilience, and productivity of their auditors can experience significant fluctuations. These variations, if remained uncaptured, pose a threat to the core mission of SAIs, which is to ensure transparency, accountability, and the effective use of public resources.

Gender equality is at the heart of a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable future for everyone, everywhere. Over many decades, progress on women’s and girls’ rights has laid the foundation to gender equality and inclusion in many parts of the world. For example, today, more than 100 countries track budget allocations for gender equality. 

The Global Summit on SAI Audits Contributing to Digitalisation and Sustainability, held on November 18-19, 2024, in Tbilisi, Georgia, marked a significant milestone in the collective efforts of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) worldwide towards current and emerging trends about sustainability and digitalisation. Hosted by SAI Georgia and the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI), the Summit welcomed a diverse group of leaders, including SAIs, international organisations, academia, and other key stakeholders. 

Institutions that begin to develop efforts on issues such as gender equality, diversity and inclusion, and prevention of harassment know that it is natural for resistance, discomfort, and questions to arise within the workforce. This is normal and legitimate, as in any organizational process involving innovation or change. 

What does it mean to implement the SDG principle of ‘Leave no one Behind’? How can SAIs’ audit the implementation of this principle by governments? 

The number of people over 50 receiving disability allowances increased by 36% in France between 2011 and 2019. The Court of Accounts wanted to check whether the needs of the populations concerned were being adequately met.

Over the years, the Latin American and Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (OLACEFS) has developed new spaces and advances in terms of Gender Equality.

Greetings and Happy New Year to the INTOSAI community from the International Journal of Government Auditing. The Journal Board of Directors and staff look forward to continuing our constructive, collegial, and informative engagement with the INTOSAI community in 2022 and beyond. I am very excited to announce that…