INTOSAI Development Initiative

Global Stocktaking Shows Slow Progress in Difficult Waters
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Global Stocktaking Shows Slow Progress in Difficult Waters

In September 2021, the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) released the Global Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) Stocktaking Report 2020, the fourth triennial analysis of data from an INTOSAI Global Survey on SAI performance and capacities. The report, which covers the period of 2017 to 2019, marks the 10-year anniversary of the Global Stocktaking, which has been an important source of...

IDI’s Gender Annex Indicates SAIs Need to Build Capacity to Become More Gender Responsive
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IDI’s Gender Annex Indicates SAIs Need to Build Capacity to Become More Gender Responsive

On December 10, 2021, the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) launched a special Gender Annex to the Global Stocktaking Report 2020. The Annex—Towards Greater Gender Equality in and through SAIs – Opportunities for SAIs and Support Providers—examines the commitments Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) have made on gender, and how these commitments have translated into action. The analysis of responses from 178 SAIs tells a story about...

IDI Releases Video on Gender Equality
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IDI Releases Video on Gender Equality

On November 25, 2021—the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women—the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) released “Gender counts: So how can Supreme Audit Institutions contribute to accounting for gender equality?” The aim of this video is to raise awareness of how SAIs can contribute to gender equality through their audit functions and as organizations. The video’s release was part of...

Fighting Poverty Together: How IDI is Making a Difference
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Fighting Poverty Together: How IDI is Making a Difference

The INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) achieves significant and sustainable impact through the way it works. Following Costa Rica's implementation of "Bridge to Development," a national strategy aimed at caring for families in extreme poverty, IDI supported Costa Rica's Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) with analyzing and evaluating the program's effectiveness and efficiency...

IDI Launches New Website, Facilitates ISSAI Initiatives
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IDI Launches New Website, Facilitates ISSAI Initiatives

The new website presents an interactive user experience where downloading different IDI publications—guidance materials, IDI plans and reports, previous IDI and INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation newsletters and other global public goods—is now possible.  Information about IDI, various capacity development programs and the INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation are also available...