During
5th Meeting of the Board of Governors, 3rd Assembely and 2nd International
Seminar of ECOSAI held in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran in May,
2000 Training Committee of the ECOSAI comprising representatives
of the Supreme Audit Institutions of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan was
set up. 1st Meeting of the ECOSAI Training Committee was held at
Audit and Accounts Training Institute, Federal Government Offices
Building, Gulberg-III, Lahore Pakistan on 18-19 September, 2000.
The Department of the Auditor General of Pakistan played host for
the meeting. Following officeers of the member institutions attended
the meeting:
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Mrs.
Gulsun Canova,
Prinicipal Auditor, Head of training Department,
Turkish Court of Accounts, Ankara Turkey. Mr.
Massoud Tahmasebi,
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Director General,
Center for Training and Improvement of Human Resources
Supreme Audit Court, Islamic Republic of Iran,
Tehran Iran.
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Mr.
Liaqat Ali Chaudhary,
Director General,
International Relations and Human Resources,
Department of the Auditor General of Pakistan, Islamabad Pakistan.
Dr.
Hameed Tavajo from the Iranian Consulate in Lahore assisted Mr.
Massoud Tahmasebi during the meeting.The
meeting started with words of welcome by Mr. Liaqat Ali Chaudhary
for the visiting delegates. Mr. Chaudhary also spoke of the vision
of the heads of the Supreme Audit Institutions of Turkey, Iran and
Pakistan and their determination and sincerity for taking forward
the ECOSAI through active co-operation among all members of the
Organization.The
participating delegates discussed the following agenda points during
their two day meeting.
- Consideration
and finalization of a three year training plan for the ECOSAI. Preparation
of cost estimates of six training programs to be delivered over
the next three years with the financial assistance of Islamic
Development Bank; and
- dentification
of the training courses that the supreme Audit Institutions
of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan will be willing to deliver from
their own resources.
During
the meetings Mr. Massoud Tahmasebi impressed the need for utilizing
full potential of the Supreme Audit Institutions of Turkey, Iran
and Pakistan to meet training needs and prepare training plan for
all member states particularly the SAIs of Central Asia Region.
He also highlighted the need for knowing the peculiar training needs
of those SAIs.
Mrs. Gulsun Canova thought that a formal taining needs assessment
(TNA) exercise would help better in this regard.Mr.
Liaqat Ali Chaudhary informed the delegates that ECOSAI Secretariat
had on two occasions in the past (i.e. 1998 and 2000) made an effort
to compile the data on (i) Training Institutions in the member (ii)
International Courses that could be offered by member SAIs for other
sister institutions, and (iii) Courses that may be needed by member
SAIs at the training institutions of other members. He further informed
his colleagues that efforts of ECOSAI Secretariat did not meet much
success primarily becasue five memebers institutions did not give
any response on both the occasions. The SAI of Azerbaijan does not
have any training establishment of its own but was willing to participate
in the courses offered by other member SAIs. The SAI of Kyrgyz Republic
also does not have any training establishment of its own but had
identified a few courses that they wanted to be organized by other
members for their staff. He was, therefore, of the view that because
of the lack of response from SAIs of Afghanistam, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,
Trukmenistan and Uzbekistan we had to adop a pro-active policy and
go ahead with the formulation of three year training plan for the
ECOSAI.After
due deliberations the Training Committee developed a three year
training plan for the ECOSAI comprising of 15 training courses annexed
to these minutes. The Committee dicided that the first six courses
in the list will be organized with the financial assistance of Islamic
Development Bank while the SAIs of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan will
organize another three couses each over the next three years from
their own resources. The memebers of the Committee also identified
the resource persons/trainers for each of the six courses to be
delivered with the assistance of Islamic Development Bank as also
the course ovjectives, course contents, budget estimates and cost
sharing plan for each of these six courses. The Committee decided
that the Secretariat will prepare a write up to which the six IDB
funded courses will be annexed and the booklet (Training Plan) will
be sent to the Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with
the request for providing financial assistance. Copies of the Training
Plan will also be provided to the SAIs of Turkey and Iran.The
Committee also decided that meetings of the Training Committee will
be held ever year prior to the meetings of the Board of Governors
and that the next meetings will be held in Kyrgyz Republic one day
before the 6th meeting of the Board of Governors. It was also decided
that special meetings of the Training Committee could be convened
if so needed.
The
meeting ended with a note of thanks by Mrs. Gulsun Canova and Mr.
Massoud Tahmasebi for Mr. Manzur Hussain, Auditor General of Pakistan
for organizing 1st Meeting of the ECOSAI Training Committee in Lahore,
Pakistan and for the very generous hospitality extended to the visiting
delegates during their stay in Pakistan. Mrs. Gulsun Canova and
Mr. Massoud Tahmasebi also tanked Mr. Liaqat Ali Chaudhary for his
efforts in making the meeting a success. Mr. Liaqat Ali Chaudhary
thanked the Turkish and Iranian delegates for their valuable inputs
and hard work in the development of the taining plan. He also thaned
Dr. Hameed Tavajo for his valuable assistance during the meeting.
