TRAINING OF DCGC AND UNIT TRAINING OF DCGC AND UNIT COMMITTEES ON:COMMITTEES ON:

SOCIAL AUDITSOCIAL AUDITPRESENTER: ABRAHAM YELLEYPRESENTER: ABRAHAM YELLEY

AOWIN-SUAMAN DISTRICT - WR

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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There are at least three types of audits:

Government AuditPeople’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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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THANK YOU!!!

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