The First President of the Court of Accounts, Zineb El Adaoui, received in Rabat this week a high-level delegation of the Presidents of the Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and their accompanying delegations from Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Senegal and Togo, as part of exchanging experiences on strengthening supreme audit mechanisms in Africa.
During the meeting, Mrs. El Adaoui expressed her great pride in the fruitful and lasting cooperation with counterpart African SAIs, and underlined the firm commitment of Morocco to further this cooperation, and to actively contribute to the establishment of a comprehensive and integrated framework aimed at developing professional capabilities, evolving working methodologies and taking advantage of modern technologies and artificial intelligence, which have proven effective in enhancing the efficiency of control and risk management, the Moroccan Court of Accounts said in a press release.
She also stressed the need for deeper integration of African SAIs into the momentum of major projects and initiatives in the field of supreme auditing at international level, in the interests of African countries and peoples.
For his part, President of the WAEMU Court of Audit Segnon Yves Marie Adissin praised the commitment of the Moroccan Court of Accounts to strengthening joint cooperation with its continental counterparts, highlighting that the visit by representatives of the WAEMU SAIs is part of the drive to modernize audit mechanisms of the Union’s member SAIs, which requires them to be open to best practices and to draw on successful experiences, including those adopted by the Court of Accounts of Morocco.
Several meetings with executives of the Court of Accounts enabled the visiting delegation members to get informed about the Moroccan audit model, with an emphasis on presenting the best practices and innovative tools adopted by the Court in the fields of auditing, digitization, and data analysis.
The visit is part of strengthening cooperation with peer African institutions, given the role of the Court of Accounts as Secretary General of the African Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (AFROSAI), which contributes to broadening the scope of South-South cooperation and deepening its positive impact, with the aim of promoting good governance, transparency, and accountability on the African continent, the press release said.