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Adiyatoulaye GueyeCour des Comptes du Sénégal (Senegal Court of Audit) General Counsel Gallery
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My FellowshipMy Canadian placement:Office of the Auditor General of Quebec (VGQ). My Canadian audit team:I participated in a performance audit of the management of teaching staff, led by Etienne Côté, Audit Manager, with Marie-Hélène Boily, Project Manager. My most valuable learning:The most important aspect of my learning was how to plan audit engagements. Rigorous, methodical planning, using effective tools, is a sure path to success for a performance audit. How my Canadian colleagues and mentors helped me:A month before our trip to Canada, my assigned team set things up so I could get to know the team members and participate actively in the audit, even though I was still in another country. Once here, I really appreciated how approachable they were, their intellectual generosity and team spirit. What I enjoyed most:As part of my audit assignment, I participated with great interest in the meeting of the advisory committee, made up of the Auditor General, certain experts selected for their objectivity and knowledge of the subject, and our audit team. This meeting is an important step in the audit process. The very relevant comments raised by the outside observers enable the team to ensure that all essential aspects of the subject are considered. My special project:Quality control and assurance for audits at the Cour des Comptes du SénégalI developed my special project with the help of my mentor, Jean Louis Mbadinga, a consultant with the Performance Audit Operations Support Branch of the VGQ. The connection to my country’s development priorities:The Cour des Comptes du Sénégal contributes to improving management methods and techniques for public institutions and public-sector enterprises. To fulfil this role and maintain its credibility, the Cour des Comptes needs to produce high-quality reports. How CAAF and my host office helped:My special project is designed to enable the Cour des Comptes to adapt related procedures and practices to comply with international standards and thereby enhance the added value of its work and contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in our country. My future impact:The new knowledge I’m most excited to share with my colleagues:I want to report to my colleagues on the experience and share with them some of the lessons learned about organizing and implementing quality control. This subject, which does not yet get much attention in the Cour des Comptes’ training programs, could enable magistrates to conduct their audits more effectively and improve the quality of reports. The difference I hope to make:As a general counsel with responsibility for participating in quality control at the Cour des Comptes, I intend to emphasize the need for all divisions of the Cour (the five Chambers) to give more consideration to the SDGs, including gender equality, in their performance audit engagements. To that end, I will be able to recommend sustainable development and gender equality assessment tools that my colleagues can use to incorporate these aspects into the engagement at the planning stage. This perspective is all the more relevant because it echoes the Cour des Comptes’ 2020-2024 strategic development plan. My professional goals:I plan to introduce or contribute to initiatives to put effective audit tools in place in the Cour des Comptes. |
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The most Canadian thing I did was…Eating poutine and going to the tulip festival. My favourite cultural experience in Canada was…Visiting the Montréal Biodôme: Besides being an architectural masterpiece, this “living museum” offers a veritable immersion in the different ecosystems that characterize the diversity of nature in Canada. Something few Canadians know about my country is…Senegal’s most popular dish is “tiébou dieun” (meaning “rice and fish” in the Wolof language). It has been recognized by UNESCO in the organization’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. |
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