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Auditing Decentralised Policies in Brazil

Collaborative and Evidence-Based Approaches for Better Outcomes

Public policies and services, such as education, health, welfare, infrastructure and sanitation, are increasingly developed and provided via different levels of government (national, regional and local), creating co-ordination and governance challenges. This report describes how Brazil’s 33 courts of accounts can use their oversight function – including audits – to help make such decentralised policies more effective and coherent. It presents the results of a 3-year project to improve how the courts can work together, using the area of education as a pilot for testing the use of indicators in the strategic selection of audits. The report offers a model for audit institutions to assess multi-level governance, and explores governance models for stronger collaboration among the courts of accounts in Brazil. These approaches may inspire and inform other supreme audit institutions with responsibilities for auditing decentralised policies and programmes involving central, regional and local governments.

Published on November 26, 2020Also available in: Portuguese

In series:OECD Public Governance Reviewsview more titles

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
Abbreviations and acronyms
Executive summary
Auditing decentralised policies: The challenges for Brazil
Towards evidence-based audit selection in Brazil’s decentralised policy areas
Integrating the multi-level governance dimension into the audit of decentralised policies in Brazil
Improving collaboration in the public sector audit system in Brazil
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