Monday 4th July

NOTE:

- All times are according to the local time in Maldives (UTC +5)

10:00     Webinar opens

10:15-11.15     Opening ceremony

• Recitation of Quran
• Chair of INTOSAI WGEA, Auditor General Dr Sami Yläoutinen, National Audit Office of Finland (via video)
• Auditor General of the SAI Maldives, Hussain Niyazy
• President of UNGA, Honourable Abdulla Shahidh (via video)
• WGEA 30th Anniversary Tribute- Sand Art Video
• Environment Club Awards and Special Acknowledgement Award from the WGEA
• Keynote speech of the Guest of Honour, the representative of the Government of Maldives

11:30-12:45     Resilience and climate change risks

• Moderator: Dr Vivi Niemenmaa, INTOSAI WGEA Secretariat
• Keynote: Director of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr Ricardo Mena Speck: Resilience as a concept, Sendai Framework and UNDRR action

• Panel discussion:

• Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Technology, Ms Aminath Shauna
• Special Envoy for Climate Change, Ms Sabra Noordeen: Climate change resilience in the Maldives
• Q&A
• Assistant Director Joe Thompson, GAO USA: Disaster Resilience Framework

12:45-14.00     Official lunch hosted by AGO

14:00-15:15     Climate change adaptation

• Moderator: Performance Audit Director, Ms Rauhath Hussain, SAI Maldives
• Keynote: Lead Author of the Small Island Chapter Shobha Maharaj, IPCC: Science base of adaptation: Why is adaptation important?

• Panel discussion:

• Climate Change Specialist, Mr Ali Shareef
• Minister of the State for Tourism, Mr Ibrahim Rasheed Aboobakuru
• SAI Costa Rica: Pressure on public finances due to climate change
•  Q&A 
• Music video by Pacific activist Mia Kami

15:30-16:30     Audit examples on resilience and adaptation in various government sectors

• Audit case examples
• Commentary: Senior specialist on climate change adaptation, Dr Karoliina Pilli-Sihvola, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland
• Q&A

16:45-17:45     Audit examples on water related issues

• Audit case examples
• Commentary: Performance Audit Manager, Mr Mohamed Ibrahim Jaleel, SAI Maldives
• Q&A

17:45-18:15     Initiativies for collaborative audits

• IDI collaboration audit on climate, Archana Shirsat
• Global Climate Scanner, Dashiell Velasque da Costa, SAI Brazil

18:15      Closing remarks of the day 1

Tuesday 5th July

 08:45     Webinar opens

 9:00-10:15     Session on climate finance: funding   mechanisms, challenges, and audit approaches

• Moderator: Performance Audit Manager Mohamed Riznee, SAI Maldives
• WGEA Report on Auditing Climate Finance, Senior Analyst Marissa Dondoe, SAI USA
• Project examples from the Maldives, Senior Energy Specialist Mr. Akram Waheed
• Commentary: Regional Director Nadir Mohammed, World Bank
• Manager Camilla Fredriksen, IDI Global Foundation Unit: How can we scale up support to help SAIs become more responsive to climate change?

 10:30-11:45     Session on Sustainable Transport: The Role of Auditing Sustainable Transport to the Achievement of SDGs and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change 

• Panel Discussion: How to assess sustainability of transport and what still needs to be done to achieve sustainable transport, Ms. June Yeonju Jeong, UNEP
• Sustainable Transportation Development in China, Professor LI Qian, Institute of Comprehensive Transportation of China’s National Development and Reform Commission
• Sustainable Transport Policies and Strategies in Maldives, Project Assistant Shimhaz Wafir
• Guidance of Auditing Sustainable Transport, Ms. Pitriyanti, SAI Indonesia
• Developing Audit Questions and Criteria on Sustainable Transport: Lesson learned from ASOSAI WGEA
• Cooperative Audit on Sustainable Transport, Zhang Hongwei, SAI China; Normas Andi Ahmad, SAI Indonesia; Pimpisut Pansook, SAI Thailand
• Q&A, Kritsanu Thipnoy and Ms. Narunat Inkonglad, SAI Thailand

 11:45 -13:00     Lunch break

 13:00-14:15     Session on Plastic Waste: Focus on Indian  Ocean

• Moderator: Tiina Väänänen, INTOSAI WGEA Secretariat
• Quick introduction: UNEP online courses on multilateral environmental agreements
• Head of the Consumption and Production Unit in United Nations Environmental Programme, Ms Elisa Tonda: Plastic pollution resolution and preprations of multilateral environmental agreement
• Plastic waste management policies in African Coast of Indian Ocean, Dr Auyb Macharia, Director at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in Kenya
• Tackling plastic waste in the Maldives, Ms Mariyam Samha, Environmental Analyst at the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Technology, and Ms Shaahina Ali, the Executive Director of Parley Maldives.
• WGEA report on Auditing Plastic Waste, Manish Kumar, SAI India

 14:30-15:30     Session on Policy Coherence and  Multistakeholder Cooperation 

• WGEA report on auditing Policy Coherence and Multistakeholder engagement
• SAI Canada audits on the SDGs, Principal Kimberley Leach
• SAI Thailand model on approaching the SDGs
• Citizen Participatory Audit Introduction Video, SAI Philippines
• Commentary: Anna Piccinni, OECD

 15:45-17:00     Group work on the WGEA Work Plan 2023-2025

17:15     Group leaders report to the Secretariat

Wednesday 6th July

08:45     Webinar opens

09:00 – 10:30     INTOSAI WGEA Business meeting

• Secretariat Progress Report
• Regional updates
• Audit example: Coordinated Audit on mining environmental liabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean, SAI Chile
• Adoption of 2020-2022 reports

10:45-12:30     Business meeting continues: introduction of upcoming projects

• Interview of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta over the video: Economics of biodiversity

Climate Hub:

• Global Climate Scanner, SAI Brazil
• Collaboration on climate change adaptation, IDI
• Biodiversity and climate nexus, system change approach, Vivi Niemenmaa

Green Economy:

• Environmental accounting, Tiina Väänänen
• Green fiscal policy tools, Green Fiscal Policy Network
• Sustainability reporting, Sustainability Advisor Nina Johansson and CIPFA and Vice President of CA Maldives, Hassan Mohamed

Strategy and the Work Plan 2023- 2025

• Review of the comments from Tuesday’s group work results and adoption of the future strategy and Work Plan 2023-2025

12:30- 13:30     Lunch break

13:30-15:00     WGEA Anniversary & Award

• History of WGEA Video
• Quiz
• INTOSAI WGEA Award

15:00     Closing Ceremony

• Auditor General Hussain Niyazy
• Chair of INTOSAI WGEA, Auditor General Dr Sami Yläoutinen, National Audit Office of Finland

15:30-17:30     Steering Committee meeting