Joint report on measures taken in poverty alleviation
Report ID: 405
In the Europe 2020 strategy, adopted by the European Union in 2010, the reduction of the number and proportion of people living in income poverty and social exclusion played an important role. This theme is also among the top sustainability goals adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, as SDG1 aimed to end poverty in all forms and dimensions by 2030.
As part of the Network on Europe 2020 stratege Audit, being one of the Network´s subprojects, the State Audit Office of Hungary (as coordinator), the Bulgarian National Audit Office, The State Audit Office of the Republic of Croatia, the State Audit Office of the Republic of Latvia and the Supreme Office of the Slovak Republic decided to carry out a coordinated audit to allow for sharing their results and experiences from audits focusing on measures taken in poverty alleviation. The SAIS set out the objectives, scope, methodology and other conditions of the cooperation in an agreement.
The objetive of the audit was to enable the exchange of knowledge, experience and good practices, as well as to evaluate the conclusions and recommendations concerning the execution of the goals of the national strategies and planned measures implemented to improve the circunstances and of people living below the poverty threshold.
The following questions were addressed:
1. Have the strategies, action plans and other related documents been developed in order to achieve poverty reduction goals?
2. Have the aims of reducing poverty, the applied concepts and indicators been defined?
3. Is the reliability of data and information ensured?
4. Have data and information been evaluated?
5. Has the monitoring system of implementation been established and operated?
The international cooperative audit found that the implementation of national strategies and the coordination and cooperation among the impacted institutions achieved different results in the participating five countries. The report includes good practises and lessons learnt.
Source: https://www.nku.gov.sk/documents/10272/1542112/Joint_report_poverty_allevation.pdf