The Association of Members of Brazil’s Courts of Audit (Associação dos Membros dos Tribunais de Contas do Brasil) held the 28th Assembly of Brazil’s Courts of Audit in the city of Recife last week. The Commissioner of Audit of Macau SAR (CA), Ho Veng On, and the member’s representatives of Supreme Audit Institutions of Portuguese Speaking Countries, such as Cape Verde’s Audit Court, Guinea-Bissau’s Audit Court, Mozambique’s Administrative Court and Sao Tome and Principe’s Audit Court were invited to attend the conference. With the theme of “Public governance and anti-corruption: social expectation for audit court”, the conference explored the huge challenges of governing the public sectors and of fighting against corruption in a global situation facing severe and alarming crises in moral, politics and economy.
The Assembly of Brazil’s Courts of Audit is hold biennially and aims at enhancing exchange of business and technology, researching and suggesting the improvement of monitoring standards of government institutions and public administration, establishing a perfect public management and a specific internal control system, etc. CA participated in this event by invitation for the second year.
Addressing in the opening ceremony, the president of the Association of Members of Brazil’s Courts of Audit, Valdecir Pascoal, emphasized the function of regulatory institutions in combating against corruption and in guaranteeing the public policy to be a social reformation tool, as well as the role of Courts of Audit in consolidating democracy, monitoring the finance and in integrating the community.
During the conference, lectures from the organizer, the Federal Government of Brazil and the state government of Pernambuco in which Recife is located, delivered speeches on specific topics including Brazil education, the usage of information in external supervision, public governance and open data, the integration and practical effect of regulatory institutions, etc. In the speech, the minister of the Federal Court of Accounts of Brazil, Augusto Nardes, especially paid attention to the regulatory institutions’ challenge arose from the unstable situation in national politics and economy, and indicated that “Ineffective public governance” definitely postpones and compromises the country’s development, as well as breeds the corruption which causes serious social inequality; in order to prevent the inappropriate public management, he considered that the three elements of leadership, strategy and supervision have to be capitalized. At the end of conference, “The Declaration of Recife” was adopted.
During the course of conference, the president of the Association of Members of Brazil’s Courts of Audit, Valdecir Pascoal, the director of Rui Barbosa institute, Sebastião Helvécio, and the Commissioner of Audit of Macau SAR, Ho Veng On, had a meeting to discuss the promotion of mutual relationship and the enhancement of collaboration in technology. These three institutions are also the observers of Supreme Audit Institutions of Portuguese Speaking Countries.
