Joint Report - Providing safety of tourism and recreation in the mountains

Report ID: 299

In 2013 the Supreme Audit Office of the Republic of Poland (NIK) and the Supreme Audit Office of the Slovak Republic (NKU SR) conducted audits concerning the execution of duties by the entities responsible for the provision of safety conditions in the mountains. The audits were carried out due to an increased probability of accidents on mountain areas and ski slopes, resulting from a growing interest in mountain tourism and skiing on the Polish, as well as on the Slovak side. Therefore, securing safety of persons present in the mountains, including a proper marking of tourist routes, system of information about weather conditions, infrastructure and organising help or rescue of accident victims or persons who are prone to the danger of life or health loss, became of significant importance. Additionally, both SAIs published openly available surveys concerning the subject of safety of tourism and recreation in the mountains on their websites, which enabled to gather the opinions of tourists on the condition of mountain routes. NIK’s audit assessed the way in which safety is provided to persons present in the mountains in touristic and recreational purposes, including the functioning of mountain rescue system and its financing, whereas NKU conducted the audit in order to verify the compliance of the activities of audited entities with the generally applied legal regulations and internal norms, with particular focus on the international cooperation. Both audits resulted in the preparation of two separate reports published by the two SAIs, which were basis for this joint report that contains a comparison of the adopted solutions and joint conclusions and recommendations. Source:

Coordinated Audit on upper secondary education in Brazil

Report ID: 367

In 2013, the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) and other 28 Brazilian courts of accounts conducted a coordinated audit to identify problems affecting the quality and coverage of upper secondary education in Brazil and to evaluate the government actions aimed at removing or lessening their causes. For this purpose they signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement on 21/03/2013.

The audit was carried out by over 90 auditors throughout the 2013 financial year. They visited about 580 schools across Brazil. The audit was aimed to identify the main problems affecting the quality and Introduction coverage of secondary education in Brazil, as well as to assess government actions that seek to eliminate or mitigate their causes.

The scope of the audit was guided by five thematic axes: management; infrastructure; teachers; financing and coverage, the first two being part of the common core of issues that were evaluated by all the participating Audit Courts. The audit focused on regular high school education, not being analyzed the Youth and Adult Education (EJA) and the Adult Education (EJA) and professional education were not analyzed.

Upper secondary education, aimed at young people aged 15 to 17, was chosen because it is the phase in lower education faced with great challenges regarding the improvement of education outcomes and of educational indicators. States are mandated to place a higher priority on upper secondary education delivery. The public state education networks comprise about 85% of the total enrollments of this schooling phase.

Source: https://portal.tcu.gov.br/biblioteca-digital/auditoria-coordenada-no-ensino-medio.htm