E-guide On Participatory Audit

From Plan to Action

  1. Module 03
  2. Introduction

Overview

Despite emerging good practices in SAI and citizen collaboration, knowledge is still limited regarding what other nontechnical issues should be considered when designing a multi-stakeholder engagement strategy.

This module will focus more on the operational aspects of planning, building, and sustaining partnerships between SAIs and CSOs in the audit cycle. The emphasis is on providing tools and approaches to tackle the practical challenges associated with the operationalization of SAI–citizen engagement.

The module presents the types of leadership and strategies that can be used to nurture constructive engagement and effectively mobilize resources and people. Case studies are provided to demonstrate the application of those concepts in different contexts. Moreover, a participatory methodology developed by the PPBA team is introduced to help foster an enabling environment and build the necessary capacities that are critical to successful partnership building. This module discusses common challenges encountered in this process, as well as actions and strategies that can be used to mitigate them.

Learning Objectives

At the end of module 3 you will be able to:

  • Identify the challenges of an effective multi-stakeholder engagement and learn about existing approaches (adaptive leadership, constructive engagement, rapid results approach) to overcome them
  • Understand the building blocks and characteristic of an effective SAI- partnership through case studies
  • Identify the steps and resources, as well as the roles and responsibilities of the different actors involved (SAIs and CSOs), that are needed to move from planning to implementation

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