INTOSAI – Working Group on Environmental Auditing

Projects in the INTOSAI WGEA work plan for 2011-2013

Research Projects:

• Land use/land management practices (Morocco)
  • Project plan, April 2011
• Environmental data (Canada and USA)
  • Project plan, April 2011
• Environment and sustainability reporting (Finland)
  • Project plan, April 2011
• Environmental issues associated with infrastructure (UK)
  • Project plan, April 2011
• Impact of tourism on wildlife conservation (Lesotho)
  • Project plan, May 2011

Guidance Materials:

• Update of the 2004 guidance material Auditing Water Issues: Experiences of Supreme Audit Institutions (USA)
  • Project plan, April 2011
• Guidance material on how to integrate fraud and corruption issues into auditing of environmental and natural resource management (Norway)
  • Project plan, April 2011

Environmental training:

• Training "module" on the topic of forestry (Indonesia)
  • Project plan, April 2011
• Training "module" on the topic of mining (Tanzania)
  • Project plan, May 2011
• Training "module" on the topic of climate change (Estonia)
• Global training facility on environmental auditing (India and Estonia)
  • Project plan, September 2011

Others:

• Seventh Survey and Annual Audit Collections (Estonia)
  • Project plan, April 2011
• SAI compendium focusing on the topics in Rio+20 agenda (Brazil and Canada)
  • Project plan, April 2011
• Introduction and distribution of UNEP-WGEA document "Primer for Auditors in Auditing the Implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements" (UNEP and Estonia)
• IDI-WGEA transregional cooperative environmental audit capacity building programme (INTOSAI Development Initiative)

Guides for Project Leaders

Following the discussions and decisions at the INTOSAI WGEA 10th Steering Committee Meeting in  Marrakech, Morocco in March 2011, the document Guide for Project Leaders: How to Develop a Guidance Material in Environmental Auditing (2009) has been updated so that it would also include advice and recommendations on how to develop research projects:

Guide for Project Leaders: How to Develop a Research Paper or a Guidance Material in Environmental Auditing, March 2011

 The Secretariat has composed a guide for developing training materials for the project leaders to have a point of reference as to the underlying principles and desired structure and format of training materials. The guide is based largely on INTOSAI Development Initiative's long-term practice and extensive guidelines on the training field.

Guide for Project Leaders: How to Develop INTOSAI WGEA Training Materials, June 2011

Progress report on 2008-2010 and plans for the new work period:

CHAIR'S PROGRESS REPORT ON THE STATUS OF THE PROJECTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES, FEBRUARY 2011

Projects with plans and draft materials under the 2008-2010 work plan of the Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA) are listed here. 

See WGEA Publications for the final documents published in 2010.

Projects under the 2005–2007 work plan of the Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA) include the production, by WGEA member countries, of products and services such as: guidance on how to plan and carry out audits on biodiversity; paper providing insights on the evolution and trends of environmental audits; documenting countries' progress and actions on commitments from the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD); tips and examples for Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) conducting co-operative audits; on-line continued guidance to conduct waste and water audits; the development of the Fifth survey distributed to the entire INTOSAI community on environmental auditing.

The list of projects and project related materials are found here.