The working environment in which EUROSAI members operate is constantly changing. To keep the audit work and its results relevant to the needs and expectations of their stakeholders, SAIs constantly improve and develop its working methods, including audit methodology.

The Supreme Audit Office of Poland (NIK), in its role of co-leader of the EUROSAI strategic goal “Institutional capacity development”, organises a meeting of people responsible for methodology and audit planning in European SAIs. The meeting will take place on 16-17 October 2018 in Warsaw and will be organised in the form of workshops and discussion panels. The outcome of the meeting is expected to allow for developing directions for further activities aimed at capacity development of EUROSAI members.

Contact point: wsm@nik.gov.pl

Throughout the INTOSAI community there is a need for strengthening the capacity of SAIs. An effective way of doing this is in the format of long term peer-to-peer support. Since several EUROSAI members are engaged in long term peer-to-peer support we intend to arrange a workshop aimed at exchange knowledge about how to conduct peer-to-peer. The aim of the seminar is to enhance the capacity to provide peer-to-peer support and to establish a network among providers of long term peer-to-peer support to enable knowledge sharing.

The workshop is intended to take place in the beginning of 2019 and will be hosted by the Netherlands Court of Audit together with the Swedish National Audit office and INTOSAI Capacity Building Committee.

Contact person: Peter Danielsson, Swedish National Audit Office, peter.danielsson@riksrevisionen.se, Peter Rostedt, Swedish National Audit Office peter.rostedt@riksrevisionen.se and Hayo van der Wal, Netherlands Court of Audit H.vanderwal@rekenkamer.nl

The European Court of Auditors has generously made its course in performance audit available to the EUROSAI membership. The aim is to enhance the capability to perform performance audits by applying the standards and best practices. Announcements of the coming courses will be made on EUROSAI website.

Contact person: Peter Danielsson, Swedish National Audit Office, peter.danielsson@riksrevisionen.se

The quality of how SAIs fulfil their mandate largely depends on the knowledge and skills of their staff. That is why the professional development remains a priority in EUROSAI’s activity. One of the already identified effective tools for transfer knowledge and experience between public auditors of various European SAIs is a EUROSAI staff secondment programme.

The proposal of such a programme is being prepared by The Supreme Audit Office of Poland (NIK), in its role of co-leader of the EUROSAI strategic goal “Institutional capacity development”. The programmes aims to respond to diverse needs and possibilities of EUROSAI members.

Contact point: Agnieszka Morawska, Supreme Audit Office of Poland, agnieszka.morawska@nik.gov.pl

This project aims as giving EUROSAI members information about INTOSAI’s standard setting work. We intend to send communications to all members about news concerning the migration from the ISSAI framework to the new INTOSAI Framework for Professional Standards as well as giving other information about what is currently going on in INTOSAIs standard setting work. The project is led by the SAI of Sweden in its capacity of EUROSAI representative in INTOSAI Professional Standards Committee, but we intend to draw on the experience of other SAIs that are involved in INTOSAIs standard setting.

Contact person: Peter Danielsson, Swedish National Audit Office peter.danielsson@riksrevisionen.se; Peter Rostedt, Swedish National Audit Office peter.rostedt@riksrevisionen.se

SAIs need to review their own capabilities and ensure both their operational agility to respond to current pressures and challenges, as well as their strategic foresight to recognize and embrace upcoming risks and trends from their environment. By providing a strong evidence base for a SAI’s current performance, and signaling the areas for improvement, the SAI Performance Measurement Framework (SAI PMF) can make an invaluable contribution to those objectives.

At the INTOSAI congress in December 2016, a SAI PMF Implementation Strategy 2017-2019 was approved jointly with the Endorsement Version of the SAI PMF. A key element in this Strategy is the development of SAI PMF regional implementation plans.

Throughout EUROSAI SAI PMF implementation plan, EUROSAI members will be encouraged to use this tool as well as a required support will be provided.

The EUROSAI SAI PMF implementation plan will be developed in co-operation with IDI.

Contact point: wsm@nik.gov.pl

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which the UN Member States jointly committed to in September 2015, provide an ambitious and long-term “plan of actions for people, planet, and prosperity,” for all nations. SAIs can, through their audits and consistent with their mandates and priorities, make valuable contributions to national efforts to track progress, monitor implementation, and identify improvement opportunities across the full set of the SDGs and their respective nations’ sustainable development efforts.

Throughout this project, carried out by the Supreme Audit Office of Poland (NIK), the SDGs audit in Europe will be promoted so as EUROSAI members could contribute to the follow-up and review of the SDGs within the context of each nation’s specific sustainable development efforts and SAIs’ individual mandates.

Contact point: wsm@nik.gov.pl

The Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation has been kind enough to translate the ISSAIs into Russian. These translations are available on the EUROSAI website.