The 30th Governing Board of ASOSAI, earlier scheduled from Sep. 29-Oct. 3, 2001 at Kuwait, was rescheduled and was held at Seoul, Korea, on Oct. 21st. 2001. Due to the limitation of time, only urgent items of the agenda were taken up for consideration at this meeting and the rest of the items were deferred for the next meeting of the ASOSAI Governing Board.
Dr. Panya Tantiyavarong, ASOSAI Chairman, welcomed all members of the Governing Board and the Audit Committee. He put on record the gratitude of the ASOSAI Governing Board to SAI-Kuwait for the tremendous efforts put in by them towards planning for the meeting and to SAI-Korea for agreeing to hold this meeting at short notice. He then welcomed Mr. Guillermo N. Carague, Chairman of the Commission on Audit of the Republic of the Philippines, as a new member of the ASOSAI Governing Board and declared the 30th Governing Board Meeting open.
The Governing Board decided that the next Governing Board meeting would be held from October 22 to 24, 2002 at Manila, Philippines.
The Governing Board unanimously agreed to nominate SAI-Japan and SAI-India for two seats on the INTOSAI Governing Board and authorized the Secretary General to take further action in this regard.
In conclusion, the Chairman, Dr. Panya Tantiyavarong, expressed his thanks to all the members of the Governing Board, Audit Committee and the delegates for their whole-hearted support and for making the meeting successful. He also expressed his sincere appreciation to Mr. Jong-Nam Lee, Chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea and all his officers for the arrangements made for this Governing Board Meeting and declared the 30th Governing Board Meeting of ASOSAI closed.
ASOSAI has successfully completed five research projects on the following topics approved by its Governing Board.
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| Accountability and Control of Public Enterprises | |
| Financial Accountability and Management in Government | |
| Audit of Public Works and Projects | |
| Govt. Revenues-Accountability & Audit | |
| Performance Audit Guidelines |
To decide on a topic for the sixth ASOSAI Research Project, the Secretary General of ASOSAI conducted a survey among the member countries. In this survey, a list of 12 topics of the seminar was circulated, requesting each SAI to give its preference of topic for the theme of the 6th Project. The response of the member countries is overwhelming and we have received replies from almost all the member countries. However, the final decision about the topic of the project and the research team will be taken during the next Governing Board Meeting, which is scheduled in Manila, Philippines in Oct.2002.
LTRTP Created A Pool of 27 Certified Training Specialists in 1998 who have professional capability in designing and delivering training courses on audit topics. These training Specialists then designed and delivered four regional workshops in LTRTP from 1998 to 2000. They also delivered three ASOSAI Sponsored Workshops in 2001 and 2002.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a New Technical Assistance Project for ASOSAI with a primary goal to enhance its training capabilities through further strengthening of the pool of Training Specialists established in the Long Term Regional Training Programme (LTRTP).
The core activity in the new Project is a seven week long workshop to train 25 additional Training Specialists, which will be designed and delivered by selected training specialists from the existing pool. The first workshop Course Design and Instructional Techniques (CDITW) is planned in October 2002 in Thailand. There will be two Regional workshops in 2003 and each will be preceded by preparatory meetings. The venues of the workshops in 2003 will be decided later.
As the administrator SAI of ASOSAI Training Programmes, the Board of Audit, Japan, is assisting the Secretary General of ASOSAI in the planning, coordination and implementation of this Project. The SAI Japan will send all the member SAIs "Workshop Announcements and Invitation" and other documents before each workshop.