Feature Articles

Graphic: The Disaster Resilience Framework: A Tool to Promote Foresight and Accountability
Post
October 26, 2021October 29, 2021Current Issue, Feature Articles

The Disaster Resilience Framework: A Tool to Promote Foresight and Accountability

by

Natural disasters, such as hurricanes, flooding, and wildfires, have the potential to devastate people’s everyday lives by causing injuries and death, destroying homes and infrastructure, and wreaking economic havoc. From 2000 through 2019, there were 7,348 major disaster events worldwide, which claimed 1.23 million lives, affected 4.2 billion people (many more than once), and resulted in approximately U.S. $2.97 trillion in global economic losses. Governments usually lead recovery efforts by...

Graphic: Virtual Audit Workshops Facilitate Learning, Collaboration during the Pandemic
Post
October 26, 2021October 29, 2021Current Issue, Feature Articles

Virtual Audit Workshops Facilitate Learning, Collaboration during the Pandemic

by

Among the many drastic changes wrought by the COVID-19 crisis has been the sudden shift to a virtual work environment. At the start of the pandemic, some audit offices had already made significant strides toward enabling remote work, while others conducted work primarily in-person, whether to build a collaborative work culture, ensure safe handling of sensitive documents, or due to limited information technology infrastructure or other reasons. The pandemic has presented..

Feature image: Strengthening SAI Independence in the Pacific
Post
October 26, 2021October 29, 2021Current Issue, Feature Articles

Strengthening SAI Independence in the Pacific

by

Pacific Island Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs), many of which are very small in comparison with SAIs in other regions, face an array of challenges. These range from issues related to serving small populations, like a high risk of perceived conflicts of interest and difficulty recruiting and retaining qualified staff, to grave threats like the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Given these challenges, it can be tempting for SAIs in the Pacific Association of SAIs (PASAI) region to...

Graphic: EUROSAI COVID-19 Project Group Builds Resilience through Collaboration
Post
October 26, 2021October 29, 2021Current Issue, Feature Articles

EUROSAI COVID-19 Project Group Builds Resilience through Collaboration

by

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the United Kingdom’s National Audit Office (UK NAO) was able to effectively carry on its work by quickly pivoting to remote auditing and using technology to build relationships within the agency and around the world. Indeed, many auditors continued to conduct audits and publish audit reports without ever meeting their teams or clients in person. Aspects of UK NAO’s operations were not the only things to change. The Supreme Audit Institution’s (SAI) portfolio of work also...