EUROSAI Secondment Programme
Background and objectives
The EUROSAI Governing Board has decided to set up this Secondment Programme1, which promotes and encourages all EUROSAI members to organise staff secondments among them as a useful tool for enhancing capacity building of SAIs.
Based on the information received from member SAIs, secondments are a highly appreciated tool in the capacity development of SAIs and the staff´s professional development that serves to transfer knowledge and experience among them.2
The objectives of EUROSAI, defined in the article 1 of its Statutes, are to promote professional cooperation among its members, to encourage the exchange of information and documentation, as well as to collaborate in the exchange of working methods and knowledge.
The foremost objective of the EUROSAI Secondment Programme is to get first-hand professional experience in a foreign SAI.
Other sub-objectives of the EUROSAI Secondment Programme are the following:
- Build mutual understanding between SAIs of common problems and provide insight into various approaches to resolving these problems.
- Exposure to new audit methods for approaching audit issues.
- Personal development of secondees and staff members of hosting SAIs.
- Upskilling and training of EUROSAI members’ staff.
- New networking opportunities.
1 Resolution on the set up of a Staff secondment programme within EUROSAI, to be partially financed from the EUROSAI budget, approved by the 47th EUROSAI Governing Board in May 2017.
2 The Supreme Audit Office of the Czech Republic took over the Secondment Programme from SAI Poland – which led the Programme from 2018 to 2022 – during the SG2 meeting held in October 2022.
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