Institutional Cooperation with SAIs of Arab region (Sharaka)

This five year regional peer-to-peer development programme will build on the long-standing cooperation between the Netherlands Court of Audit (NCA) and colleague Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) in the Arab region. As well as building the individual institutional capacity of the respective SAIs, it will contribute to developing a practice of hands-on regional cooperation, parallel audit and exchange of experience. The programme is made up of individual country projects in Algeria, Iraq,  Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia and a regional component involving these 4 countries and 2 others (Jordan and the Palestian Authorities), which aims to create a learning environment and to encourage the exchange of knowledge and experience of SAIs in the Arab region, thus supporting the sustainability of the programme outcomes. The main themes identified to date in for the regional component are the promotion of integrity and the auditing of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Regular high-level exchanges are foreseen to facilitate the institutional partnerships and a strategic dialogue.