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magazine
ALRAQABA
Issue Case
SAB Launches
‘Trusteeship of Generations’
T
he International Organization for Supreme Audit Institu-
tions (INTOSAI) stresses the importance of making a differ-
ence into the lives of citizens through a number of basic
pivots. Mainly, working on highlighting the ongoing significance
of SAIs to the citizens, parliament, and other stakeholders based
on the principles set within the International Standards of Su-
preme Audit Institutions (ISSAI) 12.
The State Audit Bureau of Kuwait (SAB) is considered one of
the first audit institutions to apply the INTOSAI Standards on all
its administrative and technical work systems. One of the out-
comes of such application is the development of the strategic
plan 2016-2020. Based on its third objective, SAI must devel-
op means of communications and encourage the exchange of
knowledge and experiences.
When implementing the previously men-
tioned objective, SAB strives to activate
means of communication with stakehold-
ers and meet their needs and expecta-
tions to enhance the public interest. One
way to do so is to be consistent in pro-
moting the value and benefit of the SAI
among members of the society. Another
is to enhance the credibility of control
work and deleiver SAB messages to
the beneficiaries and society to boost
the concept of controllers and partners.
Based on that notion, the idea of creating
a developmental project relevant to the
Knowledge Culture Dissemination Team
has emerged. An awareness campaign
was launched under the motto ‘Trustee-
ship of Generations’. According to the
decision no. (238) of the year 2017, this
initiative aims to create aware and promis-
ing generations in protecting public funds
and assets.
The outreach campaign ‘Trusteeship of
Generations’ intends to introduce stu-
dents in middle and high schools – of both
public and private systems- to the State
Audit Bureau and its mission, objectives,
and role in protecting the public funds. The
campaign is to also give prominence to
the students’ role as an effective partner in
