Message of the Director-General:-

Performance Audit Wing (PAW) is imparting training in performance auditing for the past four decades. Addressing the issues of public service delivery as per expectations of stakeholders is key to our training modules. Our commitment is capacity building of human resources to cater for future accountability issues.

PAW management has a strong resolve to inculcate analytical & research based thinking amongst the trainees, enabling them for future challenging requirements.

(International Intensive Training Program (107^th )

in Performance Auditing

(February 21^st to 11^th March, 2022)

Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP), Muhammad Ajmal Gondal inaugurated Three Weeks International Intensive Training Programme (107^th -ITP) on 21^st Feb, 2022 via zoom.

It was conducted by Directorate General Performance Audit Wing, Lahore from 21-02-2022 to 11-03-2022 virtually under the umbrella of Auditor General of Pakistan. This training program was attended by 50 participants of 15 Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) from all over the world including SAIs of Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Guinea Bissau, Hungary, Kyrgyz Republic, Liberia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand & Turkey.

The Director General Performance Audit Wing, Muhammad Samiullah Teepu in his inaugural address welcomed all the participants. He drew attention to the fact that we as auditors are required to strengthen the legislative oversight by providing an independent and objective assessment of governance, financial management, performance and utilization of government resources economically, efficiently and effectively. Accountability presupposes public insight into the activities of

various public sector organizations. Thus performance auditing is a way for the stakeholders i.e. taxpayers, financiers, legislators, executives and media to have an insight into organizational activities and their outcome.

He further added that common objectives of most governments today is to improve the quality of public service delivery to the target population as per their expectations.

To promote improvements of this type, many governments have launched modernization programs to provide better services with more choices that are easily accessible and are delivered more quickly. The quality of service delivery is an increasingly important issue, which members of parliaments and governments across the globe expect the SAIs to address in their performance audit reports.

He reiterated the vision of Auditor General of Pakistan that legitimacy and trust are essential values in all government undertakings and performance auditing may contribute to strengthen these values by producing reliable information on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of government projects, programs and other sectors of the economy.

The Director General apprised that SAI Pakistan has been conducting this international training activity for approximately 4 decades regularly with ever-increasing zeal. This 3-week intensive training program enabled participants to apply the acquired concepts and techniques efficiently and effectively in the discharge of professional duties for achieving desired results to the satisfaction of stakeholders.

The commitment, dedication, appropriate knowledge and skill may lead auditor and auditee both in the right direction, to serve the common cause of acquiring and utilizing the state resources efficiently and effectively. This will go a long way in improving the governance & better service delivery as expected by the stakeholders.

The chair thanked all the heads of the participating SAIs on behalf of the worthy Auditor General of Pakistan for reposing confidence on SAIs Pakistan by nominating their dynamic & motivated officers to join the experience sharing exercise, which is primarily an event to demonstrate solidarity, trust & mutual respect among SAIs.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

INTERNATIONAL INTENSIVE TRANING PROGRAM IN PERFORMANCE AUDITING (107-ITP)

                                                                                                       21.02.2022 to 11.03.2022

 Memories/Pics (107^th ITP)

105^th International Intensive Training Program

in Performance Auditing (Zoom) in wake of

COVID-19 pandemic

(February 15^th to 05^th March, 2021) 

                Inaugural Speech by Auditor General of Pakistan

• Mr. Javaid Jehangir (Auditor General of Pakistan), appreciated Director General Performance Audit Wing (PAW) for arranging virtual training program for public sector auditors of different Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs). He lauded the resolve and commitment of PAW management and their efforts to maintain their history of conducting this training annually at international level.
•  He expressed his pleasure at large number of participants from different SAIs and conveyed his thanks through the participants to the heads of their respective SAIs. He urged the participants to use this training as a platform to build a professional network for sharing knowledge, expertise and experiences with each other during training and afterwards. 
• He hoped that the lectures, simulation exercises and other training activities will enhance the understanding and in return is going to increase the quality of your work. Moreover, this will be instrumental in qualitative changes in the development and planning processes in your respective countries.   
• In Pakistan, stakeholders like Government and Public Accounts Committee want more meaningful and issue based reports rather than transactional and financial reports. So, we gradually as an institution, are moving towards issued based reporting.
• He stressed the need of using technology in the working of audit department. He urged that all our auditing practices and methodologies should be aligned to the technology that is available around us in order to make us more efficient and effective.
•  He apprised the participants that in SAI-Pakistan we are digitizing our entire audit process that will help us in strengthening our internal accountability arrangements, supervision and quality of our products.

Farewell Address by Director General (PAW) 

The Director General Performance Audit Wing apprised the participants that this wing has been organizing this intensive training Program since four decades for sister SAIs. He told the participants that SAI-Pakistan has a strong commitment to share knowledge, skills & experiences with other SAIs for development & enhancing core competencies to address the governance, service delivery and accountability issues.

He hoped that this program must have enabled them to apply the acquired concepts and techniques efficiently and effectively in the discharge of professional duties for achieving desired results to the satisfaction of stakeholders.

He thanked all the Heads of the participating SAIs on behalf of the Auditor General of Pakistan for reposing confidence, by nominating their dynamic & motivated officers to join this experience sharing exercise, which is primarily an event to demonstrate solidarity, trust and mutual respect in the community of nations.

In the end he congratulated the participants on successful completion of this program.

List of Participants (105^th ITP)

Remarks Offered by the Participants (105^th ITP)

Memories/Pics (105^th ITP)

INTERNATIONAL INTENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAM

IN PERFORMANCE AUDITING (103-ITP)

Organized by:

Performance Audit Wing, Lahore