The 14th Meeting of the SC KSC

From 12 to 14 September in Cairo, Egypt, the 14th meeting of the Steering Committee of INTOSAI Committee on Knowledge Sharing and Knowledge Services (KSC) was held. The event was organized by the Accountability State Authority of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of the Republic of India.

The participants of the Meeting adopted the updated Terms of Reference of the KSC and the final version of the KSC Operational Plan for 2023-2026, where the Committee outlined the goal of enhancing collaboration with the Digital University for the INTOSAI community, which is considered to be one of the global knowledge centers along with IDI.

The KSC Reporting Dashboard highlighted professional capacity building efforts within the Public Procurement Audit Working Group – the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, in partnership with the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), the World Bank, Brazilian Court of Accounts, the Chamber of Control and Accounts of the Chelyabinsk Region (Russia) published four online educational courses on public procurement at U-INTOSAI.

Representatives of the INTOSAI Working Groups delivered presentations on their activities over the past reporting period. Mr. Zaitsev, as the Chair of the Working Group on SDGs and key sustainable development indicators, noted that WGSDG KSDI is developing a training course on auditing the SDGs as part of an initiative to support sustainable development audit within the Commonwealth of Independent States. The course is intended to be posted at the U-INTOSAI website.