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COVID-19 RESOURCES

Resources listed below are in the language in which they were originally released.
Items with an asterisk (*) have recently been added.

• COVID-19 AUDIT RESOURCE REPOSITORY

  CAAF	8 Tips to Manage Relations with Auditees in the Time of COVID-19	June 2020
  CAAF	Are My Performance Audit Plans Immune to COVID‑19?	May 2020
  CAAF	Audit Tips: Ways Auditors Can Cope with the COVID‑19 Crisis	April 2020
  CAAF & IDI INTOSAI Journal	Covid-19: Putting a Gender Lens on Auditing	2020
  Audit Service Sierra Leone	Report on the Audit of the Management of the Ebola Funds	2014
  BC AG for Local Government	Emergency Management in Local Governments – Capital Regional District	2018
  Canada – Office of the Auditor General	Audit: Emergency Management – Public Safety Canada	2009
  Health Quality Council of Alberta	Review of Alberta’s Response to the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic	2010
  House of Commons	Motion by House of Commons to Audit Spending on COVID-19: Journals No. 33 – April 11, 2020 (43-1) – House of Commons – (See Motion P)	April 2020
  International Audit and Assurance Standards Board	Highlighting Areas of Focus in an Evolving Audit Environment Due to the Impact of COVID-19	March 2020
  INTOSAI COVID-19 Website	Audit Findings on Health Crises and Methodologies for Auditing Disasters	Continually Updated
  INTOSAI IDI	Newsletter - Special COVID-19 edition	May 2020
  INTOSAI IDI	Accountability in a Time of Crisis – How Supreme Audit Institutions and Development Partners can Learn from Previous Crises and Ensure Effective Responses to COVID‑19	April 2020
  *Jamaica Auditor General’s Department	Audit of the COVID-19 Allocation of Resources for Employees (CARE) Programme	May 2020
  New Zealand AG	Letter to the Epidemic Response Committee to outline the work we are planning in response to the risks and challenges posed by COVID‑19	April 2020
  Nova Scotia AG	Pandemic Preparedness	2009
  OECD	Women at the Core of the Fight Against COVID-19 Crisis	April 2020
  OLACEFS (Latin American National Audit Organization)	COVID-19 Blog	Continually Updated
  Ontario – Office of the Auditor General	Audit: Emergency Management in Ontario	2017
  South Australia AG	IT Disaster Recovery	2017
  City of Toronto AG	Review of City of Toronto Pandemic Planning and Preparedness	2007
  Transparency International	Letter to IMF Asking for Audits of COVID Spending	April 2020
  UK National Audit Office	Blog on COVID‑19	Continually Updated
  UK National Audit Office	COVID-19 Recent Publications and Programme of Work	Continually Updated
  *UK National Audit Office	Readying the National Health Service and Adult Social Care in England for COVID-19	June 2020
  US GAO	Site on Pandemics	Continually Updated
  US Government Accountability Office	Coronavirus Oversight Website	Continually Updated
  *US Government Accountability Office	Infection Control Deficiencies Were Widespread and Persistent in Nursing Homes Prior to COVID-19 Pandemic	May 2020
  US Government Accountability Office	The Coronavirus Response: Lessons Learned from the Past	March 2020
  *The World Bank	Role of Supreme Audit Institutions in Governments' Response to COVID-19: Emergency and Post Emergency Phases	June 2020

• COVID-19 PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT RESOURCE REPOSITORY

  CAAF	Taking Your PAC Meetings Virtual: Lessons from the B.C. Experience	May 2020
  The Asia Foundation and Global Partners Governance	Virtual Parliaments: Principles and Practices	May 2020
  Canadian Journal of Political Science	Pandemic Parliaments: Canadian Legislatures in a Time of Crisis	May 2020
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Association	The Parliamentarian. Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth	Volume 101 issue Two. 2020
  Commonwealth Parliamentary Association	CPA Toolkit for Commonwealth Parliaments and Legislatures on the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic and Delivering Parliamentary democracy	Continually updated
  *Compass	Tips for Engaging Communities During COVID-19 in Low-Resource Settings, Remotely and In-Person	April 2020
  Constitution.net	Government Responses to COVID-19	Continually updated
  *European Consortium for Political Research	The Effect of COVID‐19 Lockdowns on Political Support: Some Good News for Democracy?	May 2020
  *Evidence for Democracy	Q&A: The Science Community's Role in the COVID-19 Response	May 2020
  The Hansard Society	Remote Select Committee Evidence-taking is a Coronavirus Change that Should Be Kept	May 2020
  Inter-Parliamentary Union	Parliaments in a Time of Pandemic	May 2020
  Inter-Parliamentary Union	Video: Parliaments in a Time of Pandemic	May 2020
  International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance	Parliaments and Crisis: Challenge and Innovations. Parliamentary Primer No. 1	2020
  Ittai Bar-Siman	Parliamentary Activity and Legislative Oversight during the Coronavirus Pandemic – A Comparative Overview. Tov.	March 2020
  Legislative Assemblies Business Continuity Network	Managing Disruption: Business Continuity for Legislatures	2019
  *OXFAM	Community Engagement During COVID-19 – Checklist	April 2020
  *OXFAM	Community Engagement During COVID-19 – 13 Practical Tips	April 2020
  Samara Centre for Democracy	Closer to the People? Adaptations to COVID-19 by Canada's Provincial and Territorial Legislatures	May 2020
  Samara Centre for Democracy	Towards a Virtual Parliament Design Choices and Democratic Values	May 2020

PERFORMANCE AUDIT RESOURCES

• CANADIAN FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL AUDIT INSTITUTIONS

  Office of the Auditor General of Canada

  Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia

  Office of the Auditor General of Alberta

  Provincial Auditor of Saskatchewan

  Office of the Auditor General of Manitoba

  Office of the Auditor General of Ontario

  Auditor General of Québec

  Office of the Auditor General of New Brunswick

  Office of the Auditor General of Nova Scotia

  Office of the Auditor General of Prince Edward Island

  Office of the Auditor General of Newfoundland and Labrador

  Canadian Council of Legislative Auditors (CCOLA)

• CANADIAN MUNICIPAL AUDIT OFFICES

  Auditor General for Local Governments (British Columbia)

  City of Calgary – City Auditor’s Office

  City of Edmonton – Office of the City Auditor

  City of Gatineau – Vérificateur général (French only)

  City of Greater Sudbury – Auditor General’s Office

  City of Laval – Bureau du vérificateur général (French only)

  City of Lévis – Bureau du vérificateur général (French only)

  City of Montréal – Bureau du vérificateur général

  City of Ottawa – Office of the Auditor General

  City of Saguenay – Vérificateur général (French only)

  City of Sherbooke – Bureau du vérificateur général (French only)

  City of Terrebonne – Bureau du vérificateur général (French only)

  City of Toronto – Auditor General’s Office

  City of Trois-Rivières – Vérificateur général (French only)

  City of Winnipeg – Audit Department

  Commission municipale du Québec (audits cities in Quebec with fewer than 100 000 inhabitants – French only)

  Halifax Regional Municipality – Auditor General

  Quebec City – Vérificateur général (French only)

• CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

  Canadian Evaluation Society

  CPA Canada

  Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) – Canada

  Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC)

• OTHER CANADIAN RESOURCES

  Center for Information Integrity and Information Systems Assurance – University of Waterloo

  Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy – University of Ottawa

  Institute on Governance (IOG)

  Performance and Planning Exchange (PPX)

  Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat – Internal Audit

• INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES

  Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)

  Association of Local Government Auditors (ALGA)

  AuditBoard

  Auditécofi – Formation à distance (French only)

  AuditNet

  Auditors Alliance (an OECD forum)

  Australasian Council of Auditors General (ACAG)

  Deloitte – Audit & Assurance

  European Court of Auditors – Journal

  EUROSAI database of audits

  EUROSAI compilation of academic literature on performance auditing

  EY – Audit

  Galvanize – Resource Center

  IDEA – Advanced Data Analytics

  Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA)

  Institute of Internal Audits (IIA) – North America

  Intergovernmental Audit Forums

  Internal Audit 360^o

  International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI)

  • International Standards of Supreme Audit Institutions (ISSAI)
  • International Journal of Government Auditing
  • Working Groups
  • INTOSAI Community Portal
  • INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI)
  • Regional Organizations
    • AFROSAI – African Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions
    • AFROSAI-E – African Organization of English-speaking Supreme Audit Institutions
    • ARABOSAI – Arab Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions
    • ASOSAI – Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions
    • CAROSAI – Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions
    • CREFIAF – African Organization of French-speaking Supreme Audit Institutions (French only)
    • EUROSAI – European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions
    • OLACEFS – Organization of Latin and Caribbean Supreme Audit Institutions
    • PASAI – Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions

  KPMG – Audit and Assurance Insights

  PwC Global – Government and Public Services

PARLIAMENTARY OVERSIGHT RESOURCES

• CANADIAN RESOURCES

  Canadian Council of Public Accounts Committees

• INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES

  African Development Bank (AfDB) – Economic and Financial Governance

  Asian Development Bank (ADB) – Governance and Public Management

  Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

  Interparliamentary Union

  Parliamentary Centre

  International Budget Partnership

  Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

  United Nations Development Program (UNDP) – Parliamentary Development

  Westminster Foundation for Democracy

  Commonwealth Association of Public Accounts Committees

  Association of Public Accounts Committees of South Africa