Manama – National Audit Office:
The National Audit Office participated in the 16th General Assembly Meetings of the Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI), which was held in New Delhi, Republic of India from 23rd to 27th September, 2024.
The meetings were attended by the Assistant Auditor-General of Performance Audit, Mr. Qassim Ahmed Al Madhoob, Director of Regularity Audit, Mr. Suhail Khalil Sakhnini, and Director of Administrative Audit, Mr. Salah Saleh Al Yafeai.
The General Assembly meetings included the election of the members of the new Executive Board and members of the Audit Committee for the 2024-2027 session, while the presidency of the organization was officially transferred from the Kingdom of Thailand to the Republic of India, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was selected to host the meetings of the next Assembly, which will be held in 2027
During the meetings, the attendees reviewed a set of reports on the activities carried out by the General Secretariat since the previous General Assembly (2021), including the results of the Bangkok Declaration, the organization's strategic plan, its capacity development activities and cooperation with other regional organizations, and the results of the work of the working groups on environmental auditing, sustainable development goals and crisis management auditing.
The meeting agreed to establish new working groups on auditing state-owned enterprises, auditing information technology and data analytics, auditing provinces and municipalities, and adopted the New Delhi Declaration on Empowering SAIs to Audit Digital Public Infrastructure and Inclusive Governance.
The meetings also included a seminar on “Digital Public Infrastructure and the Gender Gap - Issues of Inclusion and Accessibility”, which included group discussions and presentations by some of the participating SAIs.
The NAO’s participants was briefed on international experiences in the field of auditing and the importance of exchanging experiences and enhancing cooperation to provide value-added audit services to develop the institutional capabilities of the SAIs.
The meetings were attended by representatives of 39 SAIs in the organization's 48 member states, in addition to the President of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) and the Deputy Director General of the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI).
