Support to the Office of the Auditor General of Mali

This project aims to help the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of Mali to establish a competent structure with the appropriate means and tools to fulfil its mandate under the law governing the Auditor General of Mali. This project aims to help the OAG in anchoring modern audit standards procedures and techniques as well as communication tools for its audit work and an appropriate planning and internal management process. The project aims to strengthen the institutional development of the OAG of Mali in the short term giving priority to its capabilities in terms of human resources and management work tools. Auditors and audit assistants (both women and men) are thus the first beneficiaries of the project. They are expected to convey their newly acquired knowledge and skills to colleagues who eventually join the OAG of Mali. Moreover some of the project’s activities aim to improve the knowledge and skills of managers specialists and administrators whose role is to support the Office’s audit operations. By building on the OAG's capabilities the project must also indirectly benefit the community of internal auditors and comptrollers as well as Malian society in general.

Results achieved as of December 2017 include the following: 1) a staffed audit unit was set up; 2) leadership capacities of executives and of the ten heads of mission were strengthened in order to improve the conduct of financial audits and performance audits; 3) the capacity of five executives was strengthened through the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) to help these executives acquire the knowledge needed to monitor and guide the development of public policy evaluations; 4) 15 data analysis software licences were acquired; 5) the 2017 OAG annual report was prepared based on 10 financial audits and two performance audits.All of these achievements contributed to the writing of the reports of the OAG.