In 2016 and 2017, USAID’s Governance for Inclusive Growth Program helped the State Audit of Vietnam (SAV) learn from international best practices in developing audit reports. This year, the program continued its support to improve the quality of SAV’s audits of the state budget annual projections.

On April 5, the program provided a training workshop on international best practices for auditing the annual state budget projections with the participation of SAV leaders and managers, representatives from Vietnam’s National Assembly and Ministry of Finance, financial experts and representatives of research organizations. The workshop was followed by a training program on April 9 to increase the capacity of SAV auditors to audit the state budget annual projections.

So what? Higher quality audits and audit reports contribute to more accurate future budget estimates, strengthen government oversight, and increase transparency and governance of public funds.