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Renita Lall

Audit Office of Guyana

Auditor

My Fellowship video

Fellowship program video

 

My Fellowship

My Canadian placement:

Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of British Columbia.

My Canadian audit team:

I was part of a team auditing executive compensation disclosure, led by Assistant Auditor General Sheila Dodds.

My most valuable learning:

My Fellowship placement helped me to better understand performance audit methodology and how it can be applied to future audits.

How my Canadian colleagues and mentors helped me:

I am thankful to my Canadian colleagues for their patience, their constructive advice and their experience that they shared with me.

What I enjoyed most:

What I enjoyed most about working at my host office was how involved I was, whether it was social or work-related activities. In these cases, I learned a lot and became aware of what I can be capable of when working in sync with others.

My audit plan:Hinterland School Feeding Programme

I developed my audit plan project with the guidance of my mentors, Director Amy Hart of OAG British Columbia and CAAF Associate Neil Maxwell.

The connection to my country’s development priorities:

The Hinterland School Feeding Programme is intended to provide nutritious meals to vulnerable students in remote regions of Guyana. Its expected outcomes include improved attendance, student learning, academic achievement and physical wellbeing of children during key growing years. It therefore relates to two of the country’s primary concerns: education and health. Expanding human capacity is essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and so is improving overall educational outcomes and healthy lifestyles. The Ministry of Education’s School Feeding Programmes can contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 2, Zero Hunger, and SDG 4, Quality Education.

How CAAF and my host office helped:

The discussions held and the knowledge gained from mentoring, challenge sessions and training courses helped me to better understand, develop and align my audit plan.

The skills and knowledge I improved by developing this plan:

By developing this audit plan, I have gained tremendous knowledge needed to complete an audit logic matrix and better understand what performance audit entails.

My future impact:

The new knowledge I’m most excited to share with my colleagues:

What I’m most excited to share with my colleagues are the basics of performance auditing that I learned in Canada, i.e., what is performance audit, the audit process, how we go about planning. Sharing this knowledge can increase the productivity of the team—you can work faster and smarter.

The difference I hope to make:

The recommendations made within our audit reports could highlight issues relating to gender equality and the SDGs and could also lead to improvements in addressing those issues.

My professional goals:

My professional goal upon return to my office after graduating is to improve my personal skills in communication and teamwork and to become a leader in performance audit within the organization.

 
 

My Experience

   
 

The most Canadian thing I did was…

tobogganing.

What surprised me most when I arrived in Canada was…

how polite Canadians are.

My favourite cultural experience in Canada was…

Halloween in the office.

What I’ll miss most about Canada is…

shopping.

Something few Canadians know about my country is…

our population is only a little over 800,000 people.

My Fellowship experience in one sentence:

My Fellowship experience was truly amazing and it gave me time to reflect on how important my role as a performance auditor is.

My Fellowship in a single word:

Amazing.

Now that I have completed the Fellowship…

I am more confident in moving forward with my work.