SAI launches training programme on 'Sustainability of Government Investments in the Governorates'

Muscat: In line with the institutional partnership aimed at enhancing resource efficiency and the State Audit Institution’s (SAI) commitment to promoting professional competencies, the training programme titled “Sustainability of Government Investments in the Governorates” was inaugurated.

The programme , held in Dhofar Governorate, is directed at a first group consisting of General Directors, specialists from internal audit units, and employees involved in project and investment management within various units of the State Administrative Apparatus in the Governorate.

The three-day programme is taking place at the lecture hall of the Sultan Qaboos Youth Complex for Culture and Entertainment in Salalah and is being delivered by SAI specialists. The program was opened under the patronage of Younis Al Toobi, Director General of the Directorate General of Financial & Administrative Audit in Dhofar Governorate, with the attendance of several SAI specialists.

The programme aims at enabling participants to understand the strategic direction of sustaining investment and development in the governorates and building professional capacities in evaluating and following up investments, in addition to promoting the capabilities of employees in detecting fraud and corruption in the development projects, as well as dealing with public fund crimes.

The programme includes several themes that are reviewed through some practical cases, such as national priorities for the development of the governorates, which have been aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development goals, in addition to reviewing economic decentralization and local governance of investments, as well as discussing issues related to measuring and evaluating investment performance and aspects of fraud and corruption therein.
The programme concluded with a review of the legal frameworks regulating the development projects and the significant aspects contained therein, a review of the mechanism for auditing them and detecting possible irregularities, and a review of the legal procedures followed in dealing with public fund crimes.