Topic Guide: External Audit and Oversight

Parliamentary oversight global task force. GOPAC. http://gopacnetwork.org/programs/parliamentary-oversight/  

GOPAC is an international network of parliamentarians dedicated to good governance and combating corruption throughout the world. GOPAC facilitates an exchange of information and analysis, works towards establishing international benchmarks, and to improve public awareness through a combination of global pressure and national action. The parliamentary oversight global task force of GOPAC focuses on financial and operational integrity which includes the on-going review of all government revenue and expenditures, legislation and other parliamentary rules establishing government financial control practices. It also includes legislation and other rules which guide and enable parliament to oversee the implementation of UNCAC.  

Parliamentarians against corruption’ platform of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly PACE. http://website-pace.net/web/apce/anti-corruption-platform  

PACE's new anti-corruption platform, launched on 8 April 2014 in Strasbourg, creates a space for dialogue on this fundamental threat to European values, and helps to promote transparency and honesty in public life. It brings together elected representatives from the parliaments of the 47 member States of the Council of Europe and of non-member states, with experts and other stakeholders to share information, spread good practices and debate how to deal with new forms of corruption. The objective to engage parliamentarians in this is two-fold: to support the work of parliamentarians as responsible guardians in their national parliament and to support the implementation of GRECO recommendations, the Council of Europe's anti-corruption body, into national legislation.  

The International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) http://www.intosai.org  

INTOSAI operates as an umbrella organisation for the external government audit community. INTOSAI provides an institutionalised framework for supreme audit institutions to promote development and transfer of knowledge, improve government auditing worldwide and enhance professional capacities, standing and influence of member SAIs in their respective countries. INTOSAI facilitates the development and endorses the international standards of supreme audit institutions guidelines for carrying out audits in the individual fields of government activity.