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Directorate for Public Governance
Increasing the impact of supreme audit institutions through external engagement
Compendium of European experiences with developing effective relationships between
SAIs and non-governmental stakeholders
Supreme audit institutions (SAIs) are a critical part of public accountability systems.
They ‘watch’ over governments’ use of public money and report about it publicly, helping
to increase transparency. SAIs have an interest in strongly engaging with external
stakeholders – including citizens – to make sure that their work is relevant, understood
and used to hold governments to account.
This paper provides a compilation of European SAIs’ practices on communication, co-operation
and collaboration with external partners and is intended to provide inspiration to
SAIs of EU candidate countries and potential candidates to further strengthen their
engagement with their non-governmental stakeholders.