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October 18, 2018
 
2019-2020 Fellowships Off to a Great Start

2019-2020 Fellows CAAF welcomed the 2019-2020 international Fellows to Canada this August. The eight Fellows are performance auditors from the supreme audit institutions (SAIs) of Guyana, Rwanda, Senegal and Vietnam. As part of our International Governance, Accountability and Performance Program, they are spending nine months in Canada building their performance audit knowledge and experience—by joining audit teams at Canadian offices, participating in professional development courses, and planning audits that they will carry out at their SAIs.

Their Fellowships began with an intensive training period at our office in Ottawa. Alongside other participants from the SAIs of Brazil, Korea and Taiwan, the Fellows participated in five of our performance audit courses. Working with CAAF mentors, the Fellows also began work on their audit plan projects, applying lessons from these courses.

In mid-September, the Fellows joined their Canadian host offices: the Offices of the Auditors General (OAG) of Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec and Canada. There the Fellows will each be part of an audit team, allowing them to observe and practice Canadian performance audit methodologies, learn from Canadian mentors and colleagues, and contribute their skills to the work of the office. They will also continue to work on their audit plan projects with mentors at their host offices and at CAAF.

Guyana – OAG of British Columbia

Fellows Renita Lall and Antany Mohabir with their mentors at the OAG of British Columbia, Amy Hart and Jessica Schafer

Rwanda – OAG of Alberta

Fellows Nicole Kabanyana and Hervé Niyongabo with their mentors, Ruth Schneidmiller, Maureen Manning, Mike Shorter and Mark Wright

Senegal – OAG of Quebec

Fellows Zeynab Mbengue and Abdoulaye Seck with Performance Audit Practice Advisor Simon Lauzon and Auditor General Guylaine Leclerc

Vietnam – OAG of Canada

Fellows Dung Thai and Anh Nguyen with Interim Auditor General Sylvain Ricard

CAAF wishes the Fellows a warm welcome and great success during their stay in Canada. “We are sure our nine months together in Canada—plus our ongoing relationships following the graduation—will be highly rewarding for the Fellows, the host offices and for CAAF,” said Terry Hunt, CAAF Vice-President for International Programs. “We thank the Fellows for their enthusiastic participation and hard work, the host offices and their staff for their professional and personal contributions to the Fellowships, and the Government of Canada for funding this program.”

Read more: About the Fellowships

The 2019-2020 Fellows

Renita Lall

Renita Lall
Country: Guyana
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia
Audit plan topic: Meal program in primary schools and its impact on school attendance

Renita has worked at the Audit Office of Guyana for 14 years. She currently works in the Performance Audit Section and has over a decade of experience in that area. She has also been involved in the Office’s audits of Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Program and World Bank programs in Guyana.

Renita has completed the Certified Accounting Technician qualifications offered by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She has also participated in several training sessions on performance auditing, including the program offered by the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme and courses given in Guyana by the Canadian Executive Service Organization and by CAAF.

Antany Mohabir

Antany Mohabir
Country: Guyana
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia
Audit plan topic: Overcrowding at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and its impact on healthcare

Antany joined the Audit Office of Guyana in 1996 at the entry level. In 2015, he was promoted to Audit Supervisor and, in that role, he has carried out audits of several government agencies and foreign-funded projects. Antany is currently attached to the Fraud and Forensic Audit Unit, where he supervises staff in the execution of investigations and audits and liaises with law enforcement agencies in the prosecution of fraud cases.

He is also responsible for supervising the audit of the Public Accounts of Guyana and is a member of the team responsible for the preparation of the Auditor General’s report to the National Assembly.

Nicole Kabanyana

Nicole Kabanyana
Country: Rwanda
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Alberta
Audit plan topic: Environmental protection of riverbanks and lakes in Rwanda

Nicole joined the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of States Finances of Rwanda in 2012. In 2016, she was promoted to be a team supervisor in the quality assurance and audit development department, focusing on financial and compliance audit assignments. She is involved in liaising with various development partners, such as the African Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions, about capacity building for the OAG staff and conducting various reviews of the OAG’s audit work. She has also audited the East African Community and conducted several compliance audits of projects co-financed by donor organizations and the government of Rwanda.

Nicole has a bachelor’s degree in business and administration from the Adventist Central Africa University and she is currently a student of ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – United Kingdom).

Hervé Niyongabo

Hervé Niyongabo
Country: Rwanda
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Alberta
Audit plan topic: Smart classrooms (information and communication technologies in schools)

Hervé has a Bachelor of Science in economics and statistics from Uganda Martyrs University and is currently taking courses towards the Certified Actuarial Analyst qualification. He has completed the three-module performance audit course offered by the African Organization of English-speaking Supreme Audit Institutions (AFROSAI-E).

Hervé has been working in the Office of the Auditor General of State Finances of Rwanda as a performance auditor since September 2015. He has participated in eight performance audits and was the team leader for four of these. He previously worked as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research in Rwanda.

Zeynab Mbengue

Zeynab Mbengue
Country: Senegal
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Quebec
Audit plan topic: Universal health coverage

Zeynab has been a magistrate at Senegal’s SAI, the Cour des Comptes, since March 2019 after having been a civil administrator for almost fifteen years. At the Cour des Comptes, she has the opportunity to apply her public management experience to performance auditing.

She graduated as a Civil Administrator from the École nationale d'Administration (ENA) of Senegal. She also holds two master’s degrees from Gaston Berger University, in literature and political science, and has completed several training courses in economic planning and policy. Zeynab began her career as a technical advisor in the office of the Ministre de la Coopération internationale et de la Coopération décentralisée. She was then a manager with the Ministry of Planning and a technical advisor to the Director General of Planning at the Ministry of Finance for seven years. She also served as Director of Research and Cooperation at ENA before being appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Tourism and Air Transport for three years.

Abdoulaye Seck

Abdoulaye Seck
Country: Senegal
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Quebec
Audit plan topic: Medical coverage for public servants

Abdoulaye holds a master’s degree in geography (environment option) from Gaston Berger University and a certificate from the Institut National Supérieur de l’Éducation Populaire et du Sport. He has also completed training in areas such as public policy evaluation, risk-based audit, performance audit and total quality management.

He began his career in the Senegalese public administration at the Ministry of Sports, where he was responsible for the administrative, technical and financial management of the sports sector and strategic governance. He also worked as an organizational advisor at the Bureau Organisation et Méthodes of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic.

In May 2019, Abdoulaye joined the Cour des Comptes, as a magistrate, and is assigned to the Chamber of Budgetary and Financial Affairs.

Nguyen Thi Nguyet Anh

Nguyen Thi Nguyet Anh
Country: Vietnam  
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Canada
Audit plan topic: Target program for climate change adaptation and green growth for the period of 2016-2020

Anh holds master’s degrees in management (from the University of Glamorgan, U.K.) and in finance (from Assumption University, Thailand), a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting (Rotterdam Business School, Netherlands) and a diploma in computer studies (Genetic Computer School, Singapore).

She has worked at the State Audit Office of Vietnam for more than nine years and is currently the Deputy Head of the Environmental Auditing Division. She has participated in many performance, compliance and financial audits. Anh is also a member of several task forces and working groups at her office, including the Secretariat for Vietnam’s chairmanship of the Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions and the team developing the office’s guidelines for environmental auditing.

Thai Nguyen Dung

Thai Nguyen Dung
Country: Vietnam
Canadian office: Office of the Auditor General of Canada
Audit plan topic: Domestic solid waste management in the city of Da Nang

Dung joined the State Audit Office of Vietnam in 2014 as an auditor. During her five years there, working at the Da Nang regional office, she has carried out financial-compliance audits of the local budget implementation of four provinces in Vietnam. She has also been part of performance audits in the fields of public housing and financial autonomy of public hospitals.

Dung received a master’s degree in auditing with high distinction from Nanjing Audit University, China, and bachelor’s degree in banking and finance from Da Nang University of Economics, Vietnam.

 

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