UN cooperation to develop financial oversight tools
LIBYA – Audit Bureau President Khaled Shakshak has discussed developing cooperation in governance, transparency, accountability and institutional reform in Libya with Shoko Noda, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Director of its Crisis Bureau, in the presence of UNDP Resident Representative Sophie Kemkhadze.
Protecting public funds and institutional challenges
The meeting reviewed the bureau’s role in protecting public funds and improving the efficiency of resource management, its efforts to develop financial and administrative oversight systems and keep pace with institutional and digital change, and the challenges facing oversight work in the current economic and institutional conditions.
Capacity building, evaluation and technical support
The two sides discussed opportunities to draw on UNDP’s technical expertise in training staff and developing institutional performance and oversight and evaluation tools, in support of the principles of good governance and efficient public spending.
Priority for institutional independence and national goals
Shakshak stressed the importance of directing international cooperation towards national priorities, and of protecting the independence of oversight bodies and enabling them to exercise their legal powers.
The meeting is part of the Audit Bureau’s efforts to expand international technical and institutional partnerships that support reform, transparency, the protection of public resources and sustainable development.
