Strengthening CSOs engagement with the Auditor General’s Reports
| Post date: Fri, Mar 15, 2019 |
| Category: Accountability |
| By: Oscar Ochieng, |
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA-Kenya) under the Deepening Democracy Programme (DDP) supported by UKaid held a capacity building workshop on understanding and interpreting the Auditor General’s Reports for Civil Society Organizations in nine select counties of Busia, Baringo, Nakuru, Siaya, Homa Bay, Nairobi, Kitui, Tharaka-Nithi, and Mombasa between the 4th to 15th March 2019.
The objective of the workshop was to increase CSOs knowledge of the audit process and its relevance and relationship with budget making and the accountability cycle, and to enhance their capacity in order to easily understand the audit reports and the issues to focus on.
Key outcomes of the training workshop included: participants acknowledged that the training was an eye-opener and that it had empowered them to interact more with the Auditor-General’s reports to enable them demand for accountability and good governance, and also to advocate for better usage of public resources in the counties for enhanced service delivery.
Strengthening CSOs engagement with the Auditor General’s Reports
| Post date: Fri, Mar 15, 2019 | | Category: Accountability | | By: Oscar Ochieng, |
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA-Kenya) under the Deepening Democracy Programme (DDP) supported by UKaid held a capacity building workshop on understanding and interpreting the Auditor General’s Reports for Civil Society Organizations in nine select counties of Busia, Baringo, Nakuru, Siaya, Homa Bay, Nairobi, Kitui, Tharaka-Nithi, and Mombasa between the 4th to 15th March 2019.
The objective of the workshop was to increase CSOs knowledge of the audit process and its relevance and relationship with budget making and the accountability cycle, and to enhance their capacity in order to easily understand the audit reports and the issues to focus on.
Key outcomes of the training workshop included: participants acknowledged that the training was an eye-opener and that it had empowered them to interact more with the Auditor-General’s reports to enable them demand for accountability and good governance, and also to advocate for better usage of public resources in the counties for enhanced service delivery.
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