SAI20 Recommendations

[2024] SAI protagonism

  1. Reiterate that the Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) are key actors in achieving sustainable development, promoting transparency, accountability, efficiency, good governance, and positive impact of public policies to reduce inequality, poverty, hunger, and the adverse effects of climate change on society, ensuring that no one is left behind.

[2023] SAI Cooperation with SAI20

  1. Acknowledge the complexities and interconnected nature of both Blue Economy and Responsible AI and emphasize the pressing need for SAIs to invest in targeted professional development and encourage mutual exchange of subject matter experts across SAIs.
  2. Recognize the importance of the SAI20 forum and agree to cooperate and collaborate in knowledge-sharing endeavors involving the exchange of innovative ideas and best practices, thus equipping SAIs to face the challenges of auditing the frontier spheres of Blue Economy and Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
  3. Ensure that cooperation under the SAI20 forum helps SAIs meet these challenges and thereby build public trust through tools, support, and advice. SAIs can work more collaboratively to ensure that important messages from various international SAI platforms are heard beyond the auditing community and can have an impact on decision-makers.

[2022] Multi-Stakeholder Engagement

  1. Collaborate with all related stakeholders to ensure the agility of health systems, equity in resource distribution, and comprehensive mapping and coherence of government programs for achieving sustainable development, including the SDGs.
  2. Recognize the importance of the SAI20 forum and agree to cooperate and collaborate in knowledge-sharing endeavors involving the exchange of innovative ideas and best practices, thus equipping SAIs to face the challenges of auditing the frontier spheres of Blue Economy and Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
  3. Ensure that cooperation under the SAI20 forum helps SAIs meet these challenges and thereby build public trust through tools, support, and advice. SAIs can work more collaboratively to ensure that important messages from various international SAI platforms are heard beyond the auditing community and can have an impact on decision-makers.

[2024] Climate finance and energy transitions

  1. Develop and implement strategies based on clear and measurable goals, incorporating social, economic, environmental, and financial indicators.
  2. Recognize that simply increasing funding levels is not enough; ensure both appropriate public and private funds and their effective and efficient utilization to address global challenges.
  3. Develop and implement policies conducive to fostering favorable and reliable investment conditions.
  4. Enhance transparent, accountable, and effective decision-making by: Creating an internationally shared approach to quantify and present structured information on the allocation of funds specifically designated for climate-related initiatives.

[2024] Fight against hunger and poverty

  1. Develop and implement strategies based on clear and measurable goals, incorporating social, economic, environmental, and financial indicators.
  2. Recognize that simply increasing funding levels is not enough; ensure both appropriate public and private funds and their effective and efficient utilization to address global challenges.
  3. Enhance transparent, accountable, and effective decision-making by: Implementing common systems to measure and monitor multidimensional poverty effectively.

[2023] Blue Economy

  1. Support the need for a comprehensive policy to promote inclusive and sustainable growth in the Blue Economy.
  2. Support the need for social and gender-inclusive investment towards the safety and livelihood of coastal communities.
  3. Support research, collection, and collation of accounting data, sustainable utilization data, and social data from sources such as non-governmental and civil society organizations, as well as statistics agencies on the Blue Economy that aid evidence-based policy making.
  4. Focus on the need for inclusive capacity building and collaboration with other international SAI forums to support audits of the Blue Economy and its programs.
  5. Promote cooperation and knowledge-sharing among SAIs and other stakeholders to initiate a robust framework for auditing the Blue Economy, considering different national circumstances and mandates.
  6. Formulate widely applicable and actionable audit products, including international auditing guidelines and comprehensive toolkits for auditing the Blue Economy, enabling the assessment of the effectiveness of policies and programs promoting the Blue Economy.
  7. Promote appropriate training and knowledge-sharing initiatives together with UN initiatives among the SAIs.

[2023] Responsible Artificial Intelligence

  1. Support monitoring by governments to enhance the economy in terms of reduced cost, efficiency in terms of productivity gains, and effectiveness in terms of achieving the intended objectives of AI-aided government programs.
  2. Support optimal governance in the use of AI, ensuring transparency, security, accountability, reproducibility, and sustainability under the existing legal and regulatory framework.
  3. Support fairness in the use of AI to minimize all biases, such as gender, race, representation, etc., through optimal regulatory, inclusivity, and safety standards suited to the respective national environment.
  4. Derive assurance through a sound risk management framework for public entities to identify and mitigate risks associated with the implementation of AI in public services.
  5. Take measures for the suitable integration of AI in audit processes and tasks to improve audit efficiency and effectiveness.
  6. Invest in capacity development on AI within SAIs through targeted training in tools, technologies, and know-how, with the twin objectives of auditing AI systems as well as using AI in the audit process.

[2022] Global Health Architecture

  1. Address the importance of policy coherence, coordinated planning, good governance, and sound risk management in managing an emergency, including the importance of crisis prevention, preparedness, and coordination across key governance structures.
  2. Improve efficiency, accountability, effectiveness, and transparency frameworks for better implementation of policies and programs, including the development of clear performance targets, assessment criteria, and robust monitoring and reporting.
  3. Ensure healthcare systems provide efficient, available, agile, and equally accessible healthcare for all citizens.
  4. Ensure the agility of health systems in an ever-changing environment, and equity while prioritizing the availability, distribution, and deployment of resources and health facilities.
  5. Ensure the comprehensive mapping and coherence of government programs and policies for achieving sustainable development, including the SDGs.

[2022] Digital Transformation

  1. Ensure that the rapid pace of digitalization leaves no one behind and that the digital transformation enables sustainable economic growth.
  2. Highlight the importance of documentation, as well as increase intelligence and data analytics capabilities to support the monitoring of policies, programs, and service delivery.
  3. Leverage digital transformation while identifying and mitigating the risks to data security and safety, cyber security and resilience, as well as data protection and privacy.

[2022] Sustainable Energy Transition

  1. Continue to foster the sustainable energy transitions that enable clean, affordable, and economically viable energy production.
  2. Consider the need for a framework for sustainability reporting, such as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), for the public sector to provide transparency and accountability of government programs toward a greener economy, especially in the energy transition process and more inclusive economic growth.