tailieunhanh - Report of the Task Group on Social Audit

Areas for Improvement: The audit assessment points to numerous areas for potential improvement. However, given its size, resources, and the fact that it is functioning reasonably well under the current model, the hypothetical organization chooses three main areas for development and improvement. The top priority, because it affects all others, is making sure that communications resources are a distinct budget line item in every grant proposal. The organization will also develop a communications strategy for the overall organization rather than only for specific projects. In doing that, more attention will be paid to goals and. | Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India Report of the Task Group on Social Audit January 2010 Report of the Task Group on Social Audit Contents 1 2 CAG s Audit and Social 3 New Accountability 4 Emerging 5 Role of Social Strengths of Social Limitations of Social 6 Synergy and Partnership between Social Audit and CAG s 7 The Way 8 List of persons with whom discussions were held by the Task January 2010 Page I 2 Report of the Task Group on Social Audit 1 Background Pursuant to the recommendation made by the XXIV Conference of Accountants General held in October 2008 about formulating methodologies for emerging areas in audit the Comptroller and Auditor General of India constituted a Task Group on Social Audit in May 2009 under the Chairmanship of Shri Narendra Singh DAI LB AEC with the following members a Shri AK Thakur DG b Shri Niranjan Pant DG c Shri A Mukhopadhyay JS Lok Sabha Secretariat d Shri RS Rangarajan DG e Ms. Vani Sriram PD Member-Convenor The Task Group distributed the core areas among the members for intensive study held several meetings to deliberate on the underlying issues and met stakeholders from academia civil society organizations Central and State Government officials in a national seminar organized at New Delhi on 24th October 2009 during the course of the last few months. Chairman and some members of the Task Group also attended Social Audit public hearings Jan Sunwais and a Social Audit Conference Sammelan organized by the Government of Rajasthan in Bhilwara district in association with a prominent civil society organization. The Group also considered the suggestions made by the members of the Audit Advisory Board during its meeting of November 2009. 2 CAG s Audit and Social Audit Over the last four decades CAG has been conducting performance audits of socio-economic developmental programmes of .