On August 4 and 5, the 2023 – 2028 Strategic Planning Workshop of the Latin American and Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (OLACEFS) was held at the headquarters of the National School of Control of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Peru. The meeting was organized by the Supreme Audit Institution in its capacity as Presidency of the Regional Organization and was supported by the German Cooperation GIZ.
The objective of the Workshop was to make adjustments to the 2023-2028 Preliminary Draft of the Strategic Plan of OLACEFS, by Full Members, Technical Bodies, Working Groups, and cooperators through working roundtables. In this sense, the meeting provided a space for the exchange of ideas and opinions, in addition to the establishment of consensus for this Plan of the Organization in the coming years.
The opening ceremony was presided over by the Comptroller General of the Republic of Peru and President of OLACEFS, Econ. Nelson Shack Yalta, who was accompanied at the table of honor by Dr. Camilo Benítez Aldana, Comptroller General of the Republic of Paraguay and candidate for the Presidency of OLACEFS for the 2023-2025 period; Mr. David Rogelio Colmenares Páramo (virtual participation), Senior Auditor of the Federation and candidate for Executive Secretary of OLACEFS for the 2023-2028 period; and Minister Augusto Nardes of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU – Brazil) on behalf of Minister Bruno Dantas who, at the end of this year, will assume the Presidency of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI).
Also present were Mr. Roberto Antonio Anzora Quiroz, President of the Court of Accounts of the Republic of El Salvador; and Dr. Roy Pineda Castro, Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of Accounts of the Republic of Honduras.
The Workshop was held in a hybrid format and was attended by more than 100 civil servants, both face-to-face and virtual, belonging to the 21 Supreme Audit Institutions of Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela, and cooperating agencies.
