Manama, The National Audit Office (NAO) and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The MoU aims to enhance cooperation, strengthen audit activities, exchange expertise and technical knowledge, and develop the professional skills of its staff.
The MoU aims to coordinate efforts in meetings with regional and international Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) and facilitate the provision of training opportunities for NAO staff in programmes conducted by the training institutions of the CAG.
The MoU was signed by Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohamed Al Khalifa, Auditor General of the NAO, and Shri Girish Chandra Murmu, Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
The CAG has an international standing in the audit community, having chaired the UN Board of Auditors and the UN panel of External Auditors and served as a member of the UN Board of Auditors and as external auditor to various UN bodies and agencies.
Furthermore, the CAG is the Chair of the Interna
tional Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) Knowledge Sharing Committee and of the INTOSAI Compliance Audit Subcommittee under the INTOSAI’s Professional Standards Committee (PSC).
The CAG was recently elected as the Chairman of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI) from 2024-2027. It will host the 16th ASOSAI Assembly in New Delhi in September 2024.
Several international training institutions were set up under the aegis of the CAG, such as the International Centre for Information Systems and Audit Institute (iCISA), which deals in capacity building of auditors around the world in areas related to Information Systems (IS) Audit and Data Analytics, and the International Centre for Environmental Audit and, Sustainable Development (iCED) which is dedicated to capacity building and knowledge sharing in the field of environment audit. The CAG has MoUs with 23 SAIs around the world.
India held the presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20) during the period from 1st December
2022 to 30th November 2023.
Source: Bahrain News Agency
