1. TRAINING OF DCGC AND UNITTRAINING OF DCGC AND UNIT
COMMITTEES ON:COMMITTEES ON:
SOCIAL AUDITSOCIAL AUDIT
PRESENTER: ABRAHAM YELLEYPRESENTER: ABRAHAM YELLEY
AOWIN-SUAMAN DISTRICT
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2. A social audit is a process in which the people work
with the government to monitor and evaluate the
planning and implementation of a scheme or
programme, or indeed of a policy or law.
The social audit process is critically dependent on the
demystification and wide dissemination of all
relevant information.
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3. There are at least three types of audits:
Government Audit
People’s Audit
Social Audit
Government audit – usually by professional auditors
without significant involvement of affected people.
◦ Assesses primarily procedural integrity and outputs,
◦ Little ability to get public perceptions or verify outcome.
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4. People’s audits - conducted by the people,
sometimes with assistance from movements and
NGOs, with a standing invitation to the government.
◦ Can get public perception, local knowledge and public
verification.
◦ Can assess outcomes and priorities.
◦ However, low acceptance of findings among governments.
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5. Social audit - conducted jointly by the government
and the people, especially by those people who are
affected by, or are the intended beneficiaries of, the
scheme being audited.
◦ Can bring on board the perceptions and knowledge of the
people,
◦ can look at outcomes and not just outputs,
◦ Can involve the people in the task of verification,
◦ Also, much greater acceptability by the government.
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6. A social audit is conducted over the life span of a
scheme or programme, and not just in one go or
at one stage.
It audits the process, the outputs and the
outcome
It audits planning, implementation, monitoring
and evaluation.
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7. 1. Raising awareness of rights, entitlements and
obligations under a scheme.
2. Specifically, about the right to participate in a
social audit.
3. Ensuring that all forms and documents are
user friendly.
4. Ensuring all relevant information is
accessible, displayed and read out.
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8. 5. Ensuring that the decision making process is
transparent, participatory and, as far as possible,
carried out in the presence of the affected
persons.
5. Ensuring that all decisions, and their rationale, are
made public as soon as they are made.
6. Ensuring that measurements, certification and
inspection involves the affected people on a
random and rotational basis.
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9. 8. Ensuring that there are regular (six monthly) public
hearings where the scheme and the process of
social auditing is publicly analysed.
9. Ensuring that the findings of social audits are
immediately acted upon.
10. Also ensuring that these findings result in the
required systemic changes.
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10. 1. Preparatory activities
2. Defining audit boundaries and identifying
stakeholders
3. Social accounting and book‐keeping
4. Preparing and using social accounts
5. Social audit and dissemination
6. Feedback and institutionalisation of social audit
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11. Stakeholders are those;Stakeholders are those;
whose interests are affected by the issue or those
whose activities strongly affect the issue;
who possess information, resources and expertise needed
for strategy formulation and implementation;
who controls implementation and instruments.
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12. Form groups of 4 members
Identify stakeholders involve in
the construction of bore hole
Building of classroom block
Construction of road
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