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Parliaments and SAIs partnering for greater audit impact and accountability
Summary
- Sitting 1: 08:30 – 10:30 CEST
- Sitting 2: 16:00 – 18:00 CEST
This event will bring parliaments and Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) together to understand better how they can work in partnership for greater audit impact, share and disseminate good practices around strengthening effective working relationships, and identify opportunities for enhanced collaboration going forward.
The meeting will also provide an opportunity to follow up on the second IPU Global Parliamentary Report: Parliamentary oversight: Parliament’s power to hold government to account published in 2017, and the INTOSAI Development Initiative Global SAI Stocktaking Report 2020, published in 2021.
- The meeting will take place online in two sittings to suit participants in different time zones. Its working languages will be Arabic, English, French and Spanish.
- Please register for one of the two sessions
Documents
Invitation
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Concept note
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Programme
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Report
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Concept note- ESP
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Concept Note- AR
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Report-ESP
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Report- AR
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