Annual EUROSAI WGMA meeting and seminar hosted by SAI Georgia under new leadership of SAI Latvia
18. Oktober 2024
The annual meeting and seminar of the EUROSAI Municipality Audit Working Group (WGMA) was held on 3 and 4 October 2024 in Tbilisi Georgia. The seminar, which was organised for the seventh year was dedicated this time to audits in municipalities on infrastructure projects.
The meeting assembled 55 participants from 16 member SAIs in person, with an additional 22 representatives from 12 supreme audit institutions joining on-line. The seminar hosted and opened by Auditor General of SAI Georgia Tstone Kavlashvili, was the seventh annual event for the WGMA and was attended by mayors of three Georgian municipalities – Rustavi, Dusheti and Lagodekhi, who spoke about their experiences in managing infrastructure projects from the perspective of municipalities and were engaged in a panel discussion together with auditors on the opportunities and challenges faced in the audits of such projects.
In the seminar’s two working sessions, representatives of the supreme audit institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Serbia shared their experience in auditing infrastructure projects. Auditor General of SAI Latvia, Edgars Korčagins led a seminar session on increasing the impact of audits through the cooperation of the highest audit institution and the decision-making power of local governments - the main benefits and challenges. This included a presentation on the cooperation of SAI Serbia with municipal assemblies which was presented by SAI Serbia Auditor General Dusko Pejovic.
The seminar was followed by the 8th meeting of the working group which reviewed the activities from the previous period of the Task force on Municipality Audit , and discussed the work plan of the WGMA for 2025, which included the introduction of new activities. The latest EUROSAI WGMA Newsletter was launched during the meeting, which contains 14 articles and summarizes the topical and good practice examples of the working group and its members regarding audits in municipalities. The WGMA Secretariat, now lead by SAI Latvia also presented a video on the group and its goals.
The new chairman of the WGMA, Council member and Audit Department Director of SAI Latvia, came forward with a new idea for establishing an award. The principle generated enthusiasm from the group, but there is much work to be done to bring the idea to fruition in the coming months. The group also discussed ways in which EUROSAI members not involved in the group can benefit from the work conducted by the members of the group in municipal auditing.
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