Research Highlights

Challenges and Practices in Small Jurisdiction PACs Around the World

A collaborative book published in 2023 - Enhanced Parliamentary Oversight: Promoting Good Governance in Smaller States - sheds light on how legislative oversight is practiced in small jurisdictions around the world. Much of CAAF’s guidance for effective public accounts committees (PACs) considers the different challenges and constraints that legislatures face. This book provides an in depth look at the challenges and solutions in small jurisdictions.

Here, we look at a few of the challenges PACs in small jurisdictions face and share some of the ways they are addressed by jurisdictions covered in the book.

Good Practices to Strengthen Municipal Audit Committees for Municipalities with an Auditor General

These good practices will help your audit committee carry out its oversight responsibilities and provide value to your city residents.

The PAC Perspective – Insights from Our Recent Survey of Public Accounts Committee Members and Clerks

To better understand how effective PACs in Canada are, we carried out two surveys in 2018 of PAC clerks and members in all 14 federal/provincial/territorial jurisdictions. This article shares some preliminary results from those surveys, which we hope will spur discussion on how PACs can take further steps to become more effective in a few key areas.