SAI Solomon Islands will be supported by a TA to strengthen their independence for effective and credible systems of public accountability.
PASAI will provide support to Fiji’s PAC to update the review of audit reports.
PASAI will provide support to FSM National’s PAC to update the review of audit reports that are tabled in legislature.
PASAI and IDI will hold a regional SAI PMF planning workshop for the SAIs of Fiji, Kiribati, Chuuk and Vanuatu (EU Program 5, activity 5.1)
Technical legal support will be provided to enable PASAI to review its Independence Resource Kit, which is being used increasingly in other regions as well as extending out through PASAI. At the same time there will be a review of SAI’s Independence status.
(EU Program 4, Activity 4.1)
In the third phase of the end-to-end programme for SPMR funded by IDI, delegates will learn about Monitoring and Evaluation.
The Working Group for IT Audit will meet in Fiji. PASAI will be represented by Chief Executive, Tiofilusi Tiueti.
A design meeting will take place for the Regional Planning Workshop on FSG audits.
PASAI’s Governing Board will gather for a two-day meeting in Auckland.
Waitangi Day is held every 6 February to celebrate the signing of the Waitangi Treaty in 1840 at the home of James Busby at Waitangi. The Waitangi Treaty was signed by Māori chiefs and representatives of the British Crown and was three pronged in that it gave the Māori people the same rights as the British; it recognised Māori ownership of their lands and some other properties; and it established a British Governor of New Zealand.
A day off for PASAI’s Secretariat who are based in Auckland, NZ!
Sina Palamo-Iosefo, PASAI’s Director of Programs, will attend IDI’s product development meeting in Oslo, Norway, contributing to the development of the next part of the SPMR program which focuses on Measurement and Evaluation.
Co-funded and facilitated by IDI and PASAI, the second Strategy Planning, Measuring and Reporting (SPMR) Workshop will take place in the Cook Islands, following up on the progress made since the first workshop in April 2018.
(IDI, PASAI)
Technical legal expertise, in the form of PASAI’s Legal Consultant Robert Buchanan, will be on hand to support SAI Fiji in its journey towards independence.
(EU Program 4, Activity 4.1)
Hands-on support in measuring and evaluating the effectiveness of the Financial Assistance SAI Technical Support (FASTS) program in Nauru.
Samoa’s Controller and Auditor-General, Fuimaono Camillo Afele, is PASAI’s representative to the INTOSAI Governing Board, and will be attending the Governing Board Meeting in Moscow.
IDI, New Zealand’s Office of the Auditor General and the PASAI Secretariat join forces to facilitate a regional workshop on Quality Assurance.
(EU Program 3, Activity 3.3)
INTOSAI event - IDI Board Meeting, Oslo, Norway
In preparation for the Quality Assurance Workshop the following week, resource persons from IDI, PASAI Secretariat and SAIs Fiji, Tonga and Samoa will meet in Vanuatu.
PASAI Consultant Eroni Vatuloka will provide support to the Public Accounts Committee of SAI Nauru, to update the review of audit reports that are tabled in the legislature.
PASAI will provide support to SAI PNG for a Measurement and Evaluation process, to be carried out by PASAI Chief Executive, Tiofilusi Tiueti, and Director Technical Support, Agnes Aruwafu.
INTOSAI event - OLACEFS XXVIII General Assembly takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina
The SAI of Solomon Islands will receive technical support on strengthening SAI independence through legislative reform, as per Strategic Priority 1.
Measurement and Evaluation of the Peer-to-Peer programme involving three secondees from SAIs in the Pacific Region to Nauru. Read more about the programme in our July newsletter.
INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation members and observers will be attending the INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation Steering Committee (IDSC) Meeting 2018, which will be kindly hosted by the State Audit Bureau of Kuwait on 6 September. It will be preceded by the IDSC meeting, co-located with the annual Capacity Building Committee (CBC) meeting, taking place from 3-5 September.
Technical support to strengthen SAIs independence through legislative reform - a key to PASAI's Strategic Priority 1 - will be provided via a review of the independence resource kit and the status of SAIs' independence.
The 21st PASAI Congress will be meeting in Brisbane, Australia.
Read about the the importance of Congress to PASAI here.
PASAI's Governing Board are meeting in Brisbane, Australia.
You can read more about the GB here
