Coordinated Audit of the Mercosur Free from Foot-and-Mouth Disease Action Program (PAMA)
In 2011, as part of the Action Plan of the Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions of MERCOSUR and associated, the Supreme Audit Institutions of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela and Bolivia carried out a coordinated audit on the Mercosur Foot and Mouth Disease Free Action Programme - PAMA with the support of GIZ.
The objective of the coordinated audit was to analyse the contribution of PAMA to the fight against FMD, whether the resources used by the programme were being audited and whether adequate follow-up was being carried out, identifying, in both cases, aspects of improvement for the management of the programme.
The topic was chosen because of the socio-economic importance of livestock activity in the region and the risk of livestock contagion in the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) due to recurrent outbreaks of the disease in countries of the region. In addition, the audit of EFSUR in 2010 pointed out the opportunity to deepen the research on the controls of FOCEM projects, suggesting the audit of the PAMA, because it is a multi-state program, and the evidence detected on control deficiencies, considering also that due to the characteristics of dispersion of the disease, only an articulated and integrated effort of the countries could provide concrete contributions.
The coordinated audit was part of a pilot project to examine the capacity building methodology developed under the GIZ/Olacefs Programme.
Source: https://efsur.org/informes-de-auditoria/