Snapshot from Abu Dhabi: Key Facts on INCOSAI XXII

KEY FACTS

• Roughly 600 delegates representing 163 Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) and associate members
• Congress XXII Themes: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Professionalization
• Inaugural ceremony officiated by HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates
• INTOSAI now has 194 full members, including Palestine and Seychelles
• Chinese National Audit Office (CNAO) transferred Governing Board Chairmanship to the State Audit Institution of the United Arab Emirates
• Abu Dhabi Declaration adopted setting out key outcomes and how they will guide INTOSAI

AWARDS PRESENTED

 Elmer B. Staats Award for best article published by the International Journal of Government Auditing presented to Chandra Kanta Bhandari for the article “Engaging Civil Service Organizations in SAI Audit”

• Jörg Kandutsch for meritorious services in government auditing presented to SAI Denmark

GROUNDBREAKING DECISIONS AND ENDORSEMENTS

•  INTOSAI Strategic Plan 2017-2022
• INTOSAI Framework for Professional Pronouncements (IFPP) and revised due process
• Forum for INTOSAI Professional Pronouncements (FIPP) established
• 30 ISSAIs and 3 INTOSAI GOVs
• INTOSAI revised statutes that expand Governing Board (GB) to 21 members
• SAI Performance Measurement Framework (PMF)
• Regional Forum for Capacity Development created
• INTOSAI Community Portal confirmed
• Working Group on Big Data created with CNAO as Chair and U.S. GAO as Vice Chair