Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Public Debt
September 10- 12, 2012
Helsinki, Finland
PROGRESS REPORT
Superior Audit Office of Mexico
Task Force ‘s Chair
Task Force’s Creation
 INTOSAI Governing Board
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60th meeting (November 2010), Johannesburg
 Purpose:
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To create an updated and specialized database, regarding
relevant and specific information on SAIs around the world:
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Organizational Structure,
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Management Features,
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Mandate and Legal Attributions
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Reporting Methods,
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among others thematic areas.
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Contents
Progress Report.
Current Status.
Mandate.
Reference.
Membership.
Dissemination
Activities.
• Liaison with other
INTOSAI entities.
• External cooperation.
• Questionnaire.
• Electronic tool.
• Awareness raising
activities.
• Platform for SAIs
Information.
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Mandate
Electronic Tool
Procedure to
identify, gather,
organize, update,
and disseminate
SAI’s data
SAIs’ Information
Database
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Membership
INTOSAI General Secretariat
INTOSAI Development Initiative
SAI of India
KSC Chair
SAI of Indonesia
SAI of Mexico (Chair)
SAI of Morocco
PSC Representative
CBC Chair
SAI of Peru
SAI of the Russian Federation
SAI of South Africa
SAI of the United States of America
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Dissemination of the Task Force’s
Activities and Products
http://www.intosaiksc.org/
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Dissemination of the Task Force’s
Activities and Products
Reporting III KSC Steering Committee
Moscow, October 5 & 6, 2011
XXI OLACEFS General Assembly
Caracas, October 18-22, 2011
62nd INTOSAI Governing Board
Vienna, October, 27 & 28, 2011
5th WG on the Value and Benefits of SAIs
Mexico City, June 11-13, 2012
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Liaison with other INTOSAI bodies
Capacity Building Committee
Thematic Section No. 7
Capacity Building
SAI of Morocco
CBC Chair
CBC’s Building Capacities in
SAIs: A Guide
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Liaison with other INTOSAI bodies
INTOSAI General Secretariat
 Information Sharing
Network for the SAIs to
exchange:
 Information,
 in kind assistance,
 knowledge services, and
 capacity building
activities.
SAIs’ Information
Database
Thematic Section No. 8
“SAIs’ Capacities,
Knowledge and
Information
Exchange”
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Liaison with other INTOSAI entities
INTOSAI Development Initiative
WGVBS’s
Task Team
Performance
Measurement
Framework
IDI
+
SAI of
Mexico
Task
Force
Coordination Agreement
SAIs’
Information
Database
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Liaison with other INTOSAI entities
INTOSAI Development Initiative
SAI PMF
SAIs’ Information Database
• Guiding material
• Database
• Framework for the conduction
of SAIs’ Performance
Assessments
• Procedure to systematically
gather, organize, update and
plot key data
• Maximization of synergies and reduction of overlapping.
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Liaison with other INTOSAI entities
INTOSAI Development Initiative
SAIs’ Information
Database
SAI PMF
Sources of
Information
SAIs’
Performance
Assessments
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Liaison with other INTOSAI entities
Capacity Building Committee
• SAI Capacity
Development
Database.
Advisory
Committee
Members
• IDI.
• SAI of Mexico.
• Identification of
overlaps.
• Proper
coordination.
Outcome
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Liaison with other INTOSAI entities
WGVBS
Initiative to
objectively
account of the
SAIs´ mandate,
organization &
performance
Demonstrate
the value and
benefits of
SAIs.
Impact SAIs’
Credibility,
Competence &
Reputation
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Liaison with other INTOSAI entities
WGVBS
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Liaison with other INTOSAI entities
Goal Chairs
Capacity Building Committee
INTOSAI General Secretariat
IDI
WGVBS
Chairs of PSC, CBC & KSC
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External Co-operation
OECD
• Potential collaboration:
– The development of an online and interactive
database to present survey data on SAIs’ audit
practice, mandate and organization.
– The dissemination of the survey results to OECD
member countries and committees with which the
data relates.
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External Co-operation
OECD
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External Co-operation
OECD
• Justification:
– “Exchange of knowledge on the use of innovative
ICT tools to facilitate the transformation of
statistics into knowledge” (MoU INTOSAI-OCDE,
2009).
– “Promotion of partnerships (…) with other
organizations and academic/research institutions
(…) consistent with INTOSAI’s independence
requirements” (Task Force’s ToR, 2011).
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Task Force’s Objectives
1. Identification of the most relevant
themes and pertinent variables
• SAIs’ organizational structure, management features,
mandate and legal attributions, sovereignty,
performance, among others.
2. Development of a user-friendly tool
• Gathering of data from SAIs.
• Publication of information for use by all INTOSAI
members and general public.
3. Drafting of a comprehensive survey
• Stemming from the approved themes and variables.
• Measures for its timely completion.
• Basis for the SAIs’ information database.
4. Dissemination of the Task Force’s
activities and products
5. Administrative Arrangements
• Strengthening of the TF’s impact and benefits to SAIs.
• Awareness raising.
• Smooth operation of the Task Force’s products.
• Transfer of responsibilities after completing the mission.
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Questionnaire
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Task Force’s Objectives
1. Identification of the most relevant
themes and pertinent variables
• SAIs’ organizational structure, management features,
mandate and legal attributions, sovereignty,
performance, among others.
2. Development of a user-friendly tool
• Gathering of data from SAIs.
• Publication of information for use by all INTOSAI
members and general public.
3. Drafting of a comprehensive survey
• Stemming from the approved themes and variables.
• Measures for its timely completion.
• Basis for the SAIs’ information database.
4. Dissemination of the Task Force’s
activities and products
5. Administrative Arrangements
• Strengthening of the TF’s impact and benefits to SAIs.
• Awareness raising.
• Smooth operation of the Task Force’s products.
• Transfer of responsibilities after completing the mission.
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Development of a user-friendly tool
Applications and Functions:
• Development as an electronic tool.
• Design similar to the INTOSAI Website,
• Availability in the INTOSAI working languages,
• Restrained access using password when entering the required
data,
• Unlimited access to complete the survey,
• Inclusion of clarifications or definitions (INTOSAI Glossary).
• Immediate availability of entered information.
• Personalized search.
• Availability of statistics-related functions.
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Task Force’s Objectives
1. Identification of the most relevant
themes and pertinent variables
• SAIs’ organizational structure, management features,
mandate and legal attributions, sovereignty,
performance, among others.
2. Development of a user-friendly tool
• Gathering of data from SAIs.
• Publication of information for use by all INTOSAI
members and general public.
3. Drafting of a comprehensive survey
• Stemming from the approved themes and variables.
• Measures for its timely completion.
• Basis for the SAIs’ information database.
4. Dissemination of the Task Force’s
activities and products
5. Administrative Arrangements
• Strengthening of the TF’s impact and benefits to SAIs.
• Awareness raising.
• Smooth operation of the Task Force’s products.
• Transfer of responsibilities after completing the mission.
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Dissemination of the Task Force’s
activities and products
Fulfillment of
Mandate
Survey
Electronic Tool
Mechanisms to
inform on the
project benefits
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Dissemination of the Task Force’s
activities and products
Consideration of the
proposed
“INTOSAI Guideline to
Communicate and
Promote the Value and
Benefits of SAIs”
(WGVBS’s Project 3)
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Dissemination of the Task Force’s
activities and products
Awareness-raising activities
General Secretariat
INTOSAI Journal
and Regional
Publications
Regional Working
Groups
Strategic Goal
Chairs
INTOSAI Members
Survey completion
Awareness on the
initiative benefits
Maximum use of the SAIs’
Information Database
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Dissemination of the Task Force’s
activities and products
Regional
events
Meetings of
INTOSAI
Committees
SAIs as
Spokespeople
Regional
journals
Websites
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Current Scope
Electronic Tool
Procedure to
identify, gather,
organize, update,
and disseminate
SAI’s data
SAIs’ Information
Database
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Current Scope
SAIs’ Information Database
• SAIs’
Information
Database
SAIs’
contribution
SAIs’ continuous
improvement
• Best practices
• Criteria for
benchmarking
• New developments
• Better
products and
services
Public auditing’s
stakeholders
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Potential Scope
Definition of a set of themes and variables + Survey
Performance
Mandate
Organization
et al.
Database Development + Electronic Tool
Statistics-related functions
Drafting of Procedure
Identify, organize, gather, update and disseminate SAIs indicators
PLATFORM FOR INTOSAI INFORMATION
Other Committees’ databases & surveys, which meet specific criteria
(relevance & systematic conduction)
Centralized structure
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Platform for INTOSAI Information
Preliminary Analysis
KSC Steering Committee’s and INTOSAI Governing
Board’s approval to conduct a technical study
Liaison with 4 INTOSAI bodies:
WGEA, WGPD, PAS & CBC Subcomm. 3
Identification of INTOSAI initiatives benefiting
from the SAIs’ Information Database
Task Force’s analysis and potential presentation
before the KSC SC & INTOSAI GB
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Second Working Meeting
Vienna, August 23, 2012
Endorsement of
the
comprehensive
survey.
TF’s Objective 3
Progress report
and discussion
on the Electronic
Tool.
TF’s Objective 2
Definition of the
awarenessraising activities
to be
implemented
TF’s Objective 4
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