����� DISASTER AND PANDEMIC MANAGEMENT AND

SAIS’ ROLE IN THE DISASTER RISK REDUCTION,

EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICES OF TCA

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DISASTER MANAGEMENT �

• Natural disasters not predictable

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• Government measures for emergency situations

• Establishing a Disaster Management System

- setting policies, strategies

- planning, organizing

- coordinating entities, activities

- implementing processes

SAIS’ ROLE IN THE DISASTER RISK REDUCTION�

• Audit, advisory and control roles
• assessing regulation and legislation
• making recommendations
• auditing the risk reduction measures
• auditing the use of disaster funds

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• The importance of cooperation amongst SAIs in disaster management

- cooperative audits

TCA’S AUDIT PRACTICES ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT�

• Environmental audit on flood risk management
• examining activities, measures for minimizing flood risks to be planned accurately
• evaluating the effectiveness of these activities in line with relevant legislation and organizational structures.
• performance audits on earthquakes, protection of forests, coastal utilisation, waste management, combating nosocomial infections, prevention activities against traffic accidents

PANDEMIC MANAGEMENT�

• improving and adjusting organizational policies, strategies, systems and tools to continue performing audit and judicial tasks

- remote working models,

- remote access to data and documents

- electronic communication with the auditees

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TCA’S AUDIT PRACTICE ON PANDEMIC MANAGEMENT�

• ensuring business continuity
• maintaining the performance of ongoing audit work and judicial functions
• establishing the systems with the help of IT for working from home and data collection from auditees
• preparing an action plan for the continuity of trials, auditing and reporting works and training activities

AUDITING THE PANDEMIC : SAIS’ ROLE IN ENSURING TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE USE OF EMERGENCY FUNDINGS FOR COVID-19 �

• supporting government response mechanisms
• holding governments accountable over spending and allocating pandemic resources
• acting as a deterrent to those who may intend to take advantage of the emergency situation
• ensuring transparency and accountability of the use of emergency fundings and expenditures

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LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT OF COVID-19 �

• need to develop contingency plans for effective management mechanisms and procedures
• realising the importance of remote working
• effective communication with all stakeholders
• recognising the significance of cooperative audits with national agencies and amongst SAIs

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