IDI convened a SAI SDG Auditor design meeting, hosted by UN DESA at its premises in New York, from 15 to 19 July 2024. 

IDI convened a meeting of SAI stakeholders, INTOSAI representatives from the Performance Audit Subcommittee, the Working Group on Environment Auditing, and the General Secretariat, and representatives from the International Budget Partnership (IBP), the University of Oxford, and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) to a design and brainstorming session for our new initiative ‘SAI SDG Auditor’. Held in the same week as the INTOSAI Side Event at the HLPF 2024, this meeting was hosted by UN DESA at its premises in New York from 15 to 19 July 2024.

Working together as a team, we articulated the initiative’s purpose, developed a competency framework for SAI SDG Audit Leaders and auditors, and worked on the syllabus for the education streams.

This initiative will build on the work SAIs have done on auditing of preparedness of implementation of SDGs, and the SDG audits that piloted the previous version of the IDI’s SDG Audit Model (ISAM): “Strong and Resilient Health Systems” (linked to SDG 3.d), “Sustainable Public Procurement Using Data Analytics” (linked to SDG 12.7), and “Audit of Elimination of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women” (linked to SDG 5.2). ISAM 2024 will be a good foundation for our work on SAI SDG Auditors. For more details on ISAM 2024, please see: https://www.idi.no/work-streams/relevant-sais/auditing-sdgs/audit-sdgs-implementation/isam

Watch this space for more updates on SAI SDG Auditor Initiative!