With financial and technical support from the USAID Governance for Inclusive Growth (GIG) Program, three auditors from the Indonesian Audit Board (Southeast Asia’s premiere Supreme Auditing Institution) reviewed the environmental audit manual drafted by the State Audit of Vietnam (SAV). Following a desk review, these experts visited Vietnam from October 16-18 to work with SAV’s environmental audit team to review each chapter of the draft manual. SAV will finalize and submit the final Environmental Audit Manual, which has undergone extensive peer review, for approval in November 2018.

So What? By having a technically sound Environmental Audit Manual which has been reviewed by international experts, SAV is positioning itself to conduct high quality environmental audits which will ultimately improve its ability to oversee the Government of Vietnam environmental activities.