Report of the Coordinated Pacific Region Performance Audit: Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies and Management

Report ID: 238

The countries of the Pacific are among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Rising sea levels, cyclones, tsunamis, food security, and coastal erosion are real and daily threats. Pacific governments also face challenges in recovering from natural disasters and extreme weather events.

In response to these threats and challenges, PASAI Auditors-General undertook a Cooperative Performance Audit on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction strategies and management.

Ten SAIs from eight Pacific Island states participated in the audit: Cook Islands, Federated States of

Micronesia (FSM), the FSM State of Kosrae, the FSM State of Pohnpei, Fiji, Palau, Samoa, Tuvalu and two other Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs). In line with the practice of previous regional overview reports, participating SAIs that have not yet released their audit reports are referred to anonymously — in this instance as PICT 1 and PICT 2.

Key findings

Audit findings from the eight published audit reports clustered around the following key performance themes:

governance arrangements, including legal and policy frameworks, mainstreaming, vulnerability assessments and strategy development, and coordination between responsible agencies

project implementation, including project-level governance—coordination and project management, financing and human resource capacity constraints

monitoring and reporting.

Multilateral Audit on the Arctic States’ national authorities’ work with the Arctic Council

Report ID: 262

The SAIs of  Denmark, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and the United States of America collaborated on a multilateral audit of national participation in the Arctic Council - an intergovernmental forum to promote cooperation on Arctic issues.

The multilateral audit, coordinated by SAI Norway and SAI Russia, was carried out in accordance with a strategic plan signed by the participating SAIs in October 2012 and was aimed to inform Arctic governance and enhance the usefulness of the Council in understanding and managing Arctic issues.

In addition to the national reports, the SAIs issued a memorandum  highlighting the results of a cooperative audit. The audits conducted by the five SAIs where they are similar in scope, and does not necessarily represent the views or conclusions of each SAI.

Key findings include the following:

• Changes in the Arctic have elevated the importance of international cooperation in the Arctic
• The Arctic Council has contributed to enhanced cooperation, governance and Scientific knowledge
• The Council faces key challenges related to its organizational structure, establishing priorities, funding its work, and ensuring the effective implementation of voluntary recommendations adopted by member states
• Indigenous groups make important contributions to the council, but face Challenges participating

Source: https://oaarchive.arctic-council.org/handle/11374/1527

Audit of Disaster Risk Reduction

Report ID: 267

WIthin the framework of the activities of the former INTOSAI Working Group on Accountability for and the Audit of Disaster–related Aid (AADA), from 2011 to 2013 the SAIs of Azerbaijan, Chile, India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Turkey (coordinator) and Ukraine carried out a coordinated audit.

The aim of the audit was  to provide inputs for the draft versions of ISSAI 5510 "Audit of Disaster Risk Reduction" and testing and improving its content.

The joint report presents the results of the international parallel/coordinated audit in two sections:

• In part I: Joint report and common conclusions of the international parallel/coordinated audit.

• In part II: Summaries of the national audits were given.

Source: http://www.sayistay.gov.tr/en/?p=2&ContentID=234

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT IN BRAZIL – Coordinated Audit (Executive Summary)

Report ID: 357

With a large population, Brazil has as one of its most difficult and complex missions to ensure universal, equal and free access to health care services, a right enshrined in the Federal Constitution itself. In this regard, the implementation of such public policy is faced with many challenges, as in the case of decentralization of actions, funding sources, the human resources required, and the management of the available financial resources.

Primary health care is the main point of entry into, and the communication hub for the entire health care network; and it should be the preferred contact of the users of the Unified Health System (SUS). At this level of care, the main needs of the population are identified, and that has a bearing on the planning and management of the other tiers.

Primary health care was the subject of this coordinated performance audit conducted by the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) and by 29 Courts of Accounts (TC), signatories to the Technical Cooperation Agreement entered into on March 25, 2014. The object of this audit was to assess, through a coordinated audit, aspects related to the delivery of services, access, infrastructure and problem-solving capacity of primary health care to citizen-users. More specifically, to define that scope to assess whether primary health care management (at the federal, state and municipal levels) provides quality when delivering services. Therefore, it was considered that quality derives − among other variables − from managerial actions (management processes) implemented for primary health care.

Such auditing encompassed fieldwork − in a spontaneous manner − in 23 states and 317 cities, whose results were added with an electronic survey replied by 14 State Health Departments, 2,577 Municipal Health Departments and 175 Regional Health Management Offices. The audit questions were developed around three big subjects: planning, people management, and monitoring and assessment.

The Executive Summary  presents the main results from the audit that was carried out; and constitutes a strategic tool for improving the management of those services, as it offers an excellent diagnosis of the infrastructure, access, delivery of services, and the problem solving capacity of primary health care. The report contains reference to good practices.

Source: https://portal.tcu.gov.br/biblioteca-digital/auditoria-coordenada-na-atencao-basica-a-saude.htm