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Title:

Accountability for inclusive public services

Agreement Number:

7465629 P013771001

Agreement Value:

$5,600,000.00

Agreement Date:

Mar 5, 2025 - Mar 31, 2028

Description:

This project aims to improved equality and the quality of life for women, children, youth, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable people in 9 participating Indo-Pacific countries. This includes Fiji, Laos, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Vietnam. The project seeks to enhance effectiveness of performance audits by Indo-Pacific SAIs by increasing accountability and transparency in public services for vulnerable populations, especially women, children and youth. It also aims to increase gender responsiveness and inclusivity in the performance audit practices of these Indo-Pacific SAIs, primarily through delivery of the well-established Fellowship program to 16 Fellows (8 men and /8 women) for SAIs and training 578 performance auditors (306 men and 260 women). Audit topics are selected using a three-pronged approach that includes consulting with 16 CSOs and 9 media outlets with CSOs, considering gender, human rights, the environment, and impacts of climate change. Project activities include: (1) providing professional development (courses, work experience, mentoring) on conducting performance audits consistent with international standards; (2) providing technical courses, mentoring, and support on each phase of a performance audit; (3) mentoring audit teams on developing audit report executive summaries, briefing notes, and formulating questions for oversight committee hearings; (4) providing capacity strengthening to supreme audit institution on civil society organizations engagement; and (5) developing and delivering training on audit planning (risk, scoping, knowledge of business) focusing on gender and human rights within audit topics.

Organization:

Global Affairs Canada

Expected Results:

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) enhanced effectiveness of performance audits by Indo-Pacific supreme audit institutions. This helped to increase accountability and transparency in public services for vulnerable populations, especially women, children, and youth; and (2) increased gender responsiveness and inclusivity in Indo-Pacific supreme audit institutions and within their performance audit practices.

Location:

OTTAWA, Ontario, CA K1Z 7T1

Reference Number:

064-2024-2025-Q4-00078

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Business Number:

3203106882368

Recipient Type:

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Recipient's Legal Name:

CAAF – Canadian Audit and Accountability Foundation

Federal Riding Name:

Ottawa West--Nepean

Federal Riding Number:

35079

Program:

Contributions-Partnership Programming

Program Purpose:

Contribution Programmation partenariat