During a meeting on the sidelines of the 24th International Congress of Supreme Audit Institutions (INCOSAI), held from November 7 to 11, Court of Accounts First President Zineb El Adaoui and her American counterpart Eugene Louis Dodaro, discussed the priority areas of cooperation and a roadmap to institutionalize cooperation between the two bodies.
The two officials also discussed cooperation with African countries, which have long-standing cooperative ties with Morocco and the United States. In a statement to MAP, El Adaoui highlighted the three main axes of the partnership to be built and deepened with the American side.
“We plan three areas of cooperation with our American counterparts, including the monitoring of major strategic reforms, as well as the audit of programs that are characterized by the multiplicity of stakeholders and funding (State, local authorities, institutions and public companies, public-private partnerships … etc.),” she explained.
The question is “to examine the means of controlling these programs with multiple stakeholders and answer the question of how to ensure their proper implementation and allow them, through our recommendations, to be more effective, create wealth and better serve citizens.”
Referring to examples of reforms of the Court, El Adaoui said that “we have created a pole of support of trades where we intend to bring together different specialties (scientists, sociologists, analysts ..) whose role is to support the judiciary to conduct audit missions of high quality and deepen their interrelationships. The United States is well advanced in this field and it will also be an interesting axis for bilateral cooperation.”
In addition, the two officials agreed to collaborate on specific missions such as the assessment of water management. “The idea is to initiate a concrete and pragmatic cooperation.”
“We decided to institutionalize this cooperation in the framework of a cooperation agreement between the Court of Auditors and the US Government Accountability Office,” she said.
“We have also discussed cooperation with African countries, which have previously benefited from the support of the Kingdom in particular for the establishment of independent courts of audit. We also collaborate with African countries within the framework of Intosai (International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions) to consolidate their professional capacity,” she concluded.
