OECD Public Governance Reviews : Enhancing Strategic Agility and Public Trust.

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This review focuses on advancing the performance-management vision of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Chile (Contraloría General de la Republica, CGR) with a view to enhance the relevance and positive impact of its work on accountability and decision making within the public administration. The review explores how the CGR's audit assignments could be adjusted to enhance the institution's impact on good public governance, and how it could further leverage knowledge gathered through existing and new audit assignments to deliver additional value to its diverse range of stakeholders.  Read more... Foreword Acknowledgements Table of contents Acronyms Executive summary Assessment and recommendations Introduction Strategic Level Supporting strategic agility and rebuilding trust in government Fostering strategic agility in the CGR Operational Level Engaging stakeholders throughout the audit cycle Prioritising and ensuring the quality of individual audit engagements Putting it all together: the cross-cutting supporting framework Enhancing the transparency and performance of the CGR Notes References Chile's supreme audit institution Introduction. Leadership and organisational structureMandate, mission and functions Independence Conclusions Notes Annex 1.A1. Comptrollers-General of the Republic of Chile, 1927-2013 Annex 1.A2. Appointment, tenure and salaries of supreme audit institutions' leadership in Chile and selected countries Annex 1.A3. Organisational independence of supreme audit institutions' leadership in Chile and selected countries Annex 1.A4. Safeguards for the removal of supreme audit leadership in Chile and selected countries References Supporting strategic agility and rebuilding trust in government Introduction. Modernisation of the state and its impact on the Office of the Comptroller General of the RepublicLeveraging ex ante control of legality and ex ante audit to incentivise good governance Focusing ex post audit on reliability of information Providing added value products and counsel Developing products that communicate good practice identified through audit assignments as input into the development of management frameworks Conclusions Notes. Annex 2.A1. Decrees and resolutions subject to toma de razón and those exempt from toma de razón by the Office of the Comptroller General of the RepublicAnnex 2.A2. Public sector entity and consolidated government year-end reports in Chile and selected countries References Fostering strategic agility in Chile's Office of the Comptroller General Introduction Fostering strategic sensitivity of the evolving external environment and societal demands Enhancing operational agility in order to effectively respond to emerging issues and expectations Conclusions. Annex 3.A1. Participation of the supreme audit institutions of Chile and selected countries in INTOSAI bodiesAnnex 3.A2. Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic's human resource management competencies References Engaging Chile's supreme audit institution's stakeholders throughout the audit cycle Introduction Engaging auditees to develop a constructive working relationship Engaging with internal audit to support effective and efficient audit and non-audit assignments Communicating with stakeholders other than auditees and internal audit.