The currently in force AFROSAI-E guideline on “Audit Considerations For Extractive Industries” was updated from a 2013 version in the year 2015. The update resulted in some sections of the 2013 version being deemed irrelevant after implementation in the region, such as detailed audit procedures, being removed. Some of the sections where re-written in order … Continue reading “Afrosai- E Is Updating its Audit Guideline for Extractive Industries”

A 2015 report on Ease of Doing business by the World Bank ranked Uganda 150 out of 189 countries. Uganda ranks below its East African community neighbours except Burundi, and according to the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2013 was valued at USD 1.19 Billion mainly from India and China. The … Continue reading “How Bankable is Uganda’s Energy and Extractives Sector?”

The board of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is meeting in Oslo this week to discuss, among other issues, the mainstreaming of extractive sector reporting. As focus moves away from EITI reports to governments’ own systems, it is important to examine the initiative’s relationship with key domestic actors like supreme audit institutions. Supreme audit institutions … Continue reading “Four Ways Supreme Audit Institutions and EITI Can Bolster Each Other”

Extractive industries have a vast global footprint and present a primary sector in many countries. Approximately 3,5 billion people live in countries rich in oil, gas or minerals. In 2010, it was estimated that the formal mining sector alone employed more than 3,7 million workers, with a further 25 million people working in artisanal and … Continue reading “Linking Extractive Industries and the Sustainable Development Goals”

WGEI held a 2-days transfer pricing course in Oslo facilitated by Anders Pilskog and August Schneider from the Office of the Auditor General of Norway. The course was well attended with participants from Uganda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Norway and the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI). The aim of the course was both to emphasise the … Continue reading “Transfer pricing course held in Oslo 21st-22nd November 2017”

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) recently hosted a peer-learning workshop in Yaoundé, Cameroon (28-30 November) for Francophone Africa. A great number of French speaking African countries are working towards implementing the EITI standards, to demonstrate transparency in their extractive industries sectors. Implementing the standards is challenging. The EITI Secretariat is increasingly interested in using the work of SAIs … Continue reading “Peer Learning Event for EITI Implementing in Francophone Countries in Africa”

Applications are now open for the 2018 edition of NRGI’s Reversing the Resource Curse, which will be held from 15-26 April 2018 at the Central European University. Full information on the course can be found at: http://bit.ly/2jgL1VV; some highlights below. We would love to have more SAI participants this year so please consider applying and/or sharing this … Continue reading “Course Announcement: Reversing the Resource Curse 15 – 26 April 2018”

The Office of the Auditor General of Uganda in collaboration with the INTOSAI working group on the audit of extractive industries (WGEI) community of practice and Afrosai-e organized an extractive industries training workshop that took place in Kampala Uganda from 11th -15th September 2017. This training helped participants to share knowledge and experiences regarding the topical issues … Continue reading “Extractive Industries (EI) Training from 11th – 15th September, 2017”

Networking with non-SAI stakeholders has been a priority for WGEI since the beginning. In October this year, the WGEI entered into a consortium with a group of non-SAI stakeholders to seek donor support for extractive industry audit and civil society dialogue.  A number of multilateral organization and initiatives, government bodies as well as civil society … Continue reading “Public Flashlight on Extractive industries: WGEI Enters Consortium with Civil Society Organizations”

As I have argued in a previous blog, supreme audit institutions are natural guardians of resource governance. They have both the legal mandate and the access—at least in theory—to be an independent check on the management of extractives all along the industry decision chain. In Uganda, for example, the Office of the Auditor General has proven adept at responding … Continue reading “How the Resource Governance Index Can Be Used to Audit Extractives”