Support for Improvement in Governance & Management

With the help of the partnership with SIGMA the Chamber of Control of Georgia (CCG) receives support and guidance in its transitional period of becoming an independent institution for conducting valuable audit of public sector. The first stage of the planned events calendar, initiated by CCG in cooperation with SIGMA has been effectively covered and the partners are now moving to the second stage. The interaction between SIGMA and its partners is mainly presented by training seminars and workshops.

Seminars

Overview of Future Cooperation

05.04.2011

Ms. Bianca Breteche, Senior Advisor of SIGMA (Support for improvement in Governance and Management) paid a visit to CCG and met with the Chairman of CCG. The purpose of the visit was to overview common cooperative activities over the past period and to determine areas of future cooperation.

Development of Training Strategy

22.02.2011

Meeting were held between the representatives of SIGMA and CCG colleagues related to the development of training strategy for auditors of CCG on 22-24 of February. One of the main priorities of the CCG strategic development is the preparation of professional personnel and establishment of effective training system.

Seminar on “Audit of the Government consolidated report on the implementation of the annual budget.”

19 -20.10.2010

On the 19th -20th of October 2010 Under the egis of SIGMA (Support for Improvement in Governance and Management) a representative of the State Audit Office of Latvia (SAO) Ms. Inga Varava visited the Chamber of Control of Georgia. The purpose of the visit of Ms. Varava to the CCG was to share own experience and provide support in the production of the consolidated report on the implementation of the annual budget to the CCG colleagues.

Seminar on “Training Strategy”

13-14.10. 2010

On the 13th-14th of October 2010 SIGMA (Support for Improvement in Governance and Management) held a working meeting with the CCG colleagues the subject of which was the development of the training strategy for the employees of the CCG. One of the main priorities of the strategic development of the CCG is the enhancement of the professional capacity of the staff and development of the effective training system.

Seminar on the Training Program Development

19-21.07.2010

Within the framework of the mission of SIGMA a seminar on the training program for auditors was delivered by Ms Bianca Breteche, the Senior Advisor on Financial Control and External Audit and Mr.Vilhelm Reutersward, the Swedish Expert. During the meeting the main directions of the development of the program have been determined and the model of the training system required by the CCG has been identified.

Seminar “Preparation of the annual audit report on the Government Budget Execution of Latvia”

21.04.2010

On the 21st of April of the current year within the framework of cooperation project with SIGMA a presentation was held by the representative of the State Audit Office of Latvia, Ms Ieva Brownfelde. The meeting was of highly interactive nature and was based on shared experiences and views on the above subject from both sides. Analysis and evaluation of the similarities and differences of the budget report implementation processes between the partner SAIs has been carried out and suggestions for the procedure of the preparation of the government budget reports in the future have been introduced.

SIGMA seminar on "The new role of the Chamber of Control of Georgia and its relationship with Parliament"

03.02. 2010

A seminar on “The new role of the Chamber of Control & its relationship with Parliament“ was held on February 3 in Hotel Radisson SAS. The event was organized by the mutual cooperation of Sigma and CCG and among the participants were the Chairman of CCG, Mr. Levan Bezhashvili and experts from Netherlands, Germany and France. The main subject of the seminar was the new role of CCG as an autonomous advisory institution and its current working relations with relevant state bodies. The attention was drawn to the importance of parliamentary consideration of the audit results and the need of support of Parliament for the CCG to reach its goals and to be fully trusted by the members of society. Among those expressing their view on the topic were Maurits de Brauw (former General Secretary of Netherland Court of Audit), Ken-Marti Vaher (representative of the National Audit Office of Germany), Jens-Hermann Treuner (member of the National Audit Office of Germany). The seminar also looked at issues of independence of the State Audit Institutions (SAIs) and the main principles it should be guided by.

Seminar on “The Role of External and Internal Audits and their interrelation”

15.12.2009

During the seminar held in Hotel Radisson SAS on December 15th 2009 the issue of the differences between the external and internal audits and their procedural relationship have been raised. The meeting started by the presentation on the external and internal public audit procedures in Georgia and their current structure, led by the representatives of the CCG and the views on the topic were shared by Bianca Breteche, the Senior Advisor (SIGMA). Audit experts representing SIGMA gave a presentation on the interconnection between the internal and external audit based on the examples of European audits data. Among those invited was the representative of the Ministry of Finance of Hungary, Balaze Decso.

SIGMA workshop on “Strategic Development Towards External Audits According to International Auditing Standards”

17.11.2009

Experts from the EU members representing SIGMA project held several presentations on the aspect of control in financial audit. The issues covered were related to application of quality control throughout the audit process and were introduced by the State Audit officials of Latvia: Mrs. Inguna Sudraba, the Auditor General of Latvia “; Marita Salgrave / Elita Krumina, Council Members, SAO Latvia. Opening was held by the Chairman of the CCG Mr Levan Bezhashvili and general views on this issue were shared by the Senior Advisor (SIGMA), Bianca Brétéché.

“Developing Training set-up and Training programme for State Audit” Workshop

06.10.2009

The workshop focused on the processes of developing a training system in order to facilitate the decision making in the CCG Georgia concerning the development of an efficient training system for state audit in Georgia. Various approaches to the development of the training system were shared by the invited experts from EU Members: Ms. Lone Debel, Adviser, SAI Denmark; Mr. Janis Bedritis, Head of Personnel Division, SAI Latvia; Mr. Jurrie Vos, Audit Director Dutch SAI.