Annual organizational and financial audits of Ministries of Health and Education

Detailed description of project Back

Since 2000, the Government of Cameroun has embarked on a medium-term economic and financial reform programme. The improvement of the management of public expenditures and good governance are principal elements of the reform agenda. In 2000, the EC and the Government signed a cooperation agreement on the mobilisation of 3,6 Mrds FCFA budgetary support, accompanied by a matrix of measures to improve the management of public expenditures.

The objective of the audits are:

• Critical analysis of the public expenditures chain, assessment of the control and management systems at both central and local levels;
• Financial audit of budgetary expenditure throughsampling: verification if budgetary, administrative and financial procedures and regulations have been respected; appraisal of the quality of the work provided and checking the effectiveness of realisations;
• Environmental analysis of both Ministries’ overall organisation and information system, suitability of the organisational chart with the sectoral strategy, internal control procedures, budgetary and accounting management frame;
• Recommendations on improved management of budgetary expenditures and assessment of the state of implementation of recommendations from previous audits’ missions.

Type of services provided

The expert team provided by PROMAN consists of a total of 8 EU short-term experts including: the team leader, two senior auditors, one civil engineer, one computer specialist, one economist, an archivist, and 6 local auditors.

The team carries out public finance/public expenditure organisational and financial audits and sets up recommendations for adequate budget expenditure management

The audits are achieved not only within the Ministries under review, both at central and peripheral levels, and their regional/departmental delegations as well as their peripheral services (health structures, scholar institutions), but also within the Ministries of Finance, of Planning, and the Treasury Department (national and provincial premises).

Additional expertise focuses on the evaluation of management tools and systems prevailing in public health structures, at various grades of the health pyramid, as well as in schools for paramedical staff training.