Yaounde: Supreme State audit stakeholders hone skills in institutional integrity, ethical governance.

This the aim of a seminar organised by the Regional Training Council for Higher Institutions of Audit of Public Finance in French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa, known by its French acronym, CREFIAF. The seminar which opened in Yaounde yesterday will end today.

It is aimed at noting the findings, challenges and opportunities identified by Supreme Audit Institutions, SAIs, in terms of institutional integrity and professional ethics, particularly those mentioned in the previous integrated review. 

Focus is also to lay the foundations for a forum for sharing information that will strengthen institutional integrity and ethical governance within SAIs. 

Speaking during the opening of the seminar, the representative of INTOSAI Development Initiative, IDI, Alain Roger Memvuh, said the traditional axis of their intervention is to support audit institutions in strengthening their audit practices, and also support them in internal governance. 

“…when we speak of internal governance, we address issues related to integrity and ethics. During this seminar, we are going to address a certain number of themes relating to international standards in terms of integrity and ethics for Supreme Audit Institutions, SAIs,” he said. 

He added that: “The SAIs will also submit themselves to a mapping, an examination of their current practices to examine their vulnerabilities and to address a certain number of avenues of action that can allow them to improve their integrity systems precisely”.

Meanwhile, the First President of the Audit Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jimmy Munganga Ngwaka, said during the seminar participants will be drilled on what they must do and how they must behave when they are called upon to manage public funds. 

“…we must also be role models. We must not be there only to tell people what they must do, but we also must lead by a good example. This is the reason professional ethics and integrity are very important elements within an SAI,” he said.

“So, at the end of this seminar, participants should know how to behave as staff of Supreme Audit Institutions,” stated Munganga. 

Opening the seminar, the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Supreme State Audit Office, CONSUPE, Mbah Acha Rose Fomundam, said the workshop has been organised to train personnel on institutional integrity and deontology. 

“They will learn a lot on how to manage human resources, how to manage gender, how to manage diversity and how to manage inclusion. There will be a lot of things for them to learn,” she said. 

The minister noted that: “One of the important aspects of this is that they will have to interact, learn from each other and share ideas, experiences and best practices, so that by the time they leave from here they will be well loaded”. 

“We have external partners and stakeholders. They need to have confidence in us. The confidence must be built and must be shown, so that many of them can come to deal with us and have the confidence not only in the audit that we do, but even in our behaviour within our institutions,” she stated.

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3707 of Wednesday February 18, 2026