Honduras project 522-0381 · 1993

Project to strengthen the auditing capabilities of the Office of the Controller General of the Republic (CGR) of Honduras. The project will help the CGR increase its staff stability, upgrade its capacity to conduct professional financial and operational audits, develop an Investigatory Audit Department, and launch a public awareness campaign. To decrease the high turnover rate among CGR supervisory auditors, the CGR will increase professional salaries to market rates and will draft a Career Law for Auditors, including implementing regulations, which will allow staff to advance professionally and provide job security. The Law will establish the legal framework for personnel administration and include a merit-based classification system. Passage of the Law will be a condition precedent to disbursement for certain activities in FY96. To improve the CGR's auditing capabilities, long- and short-term TA will address deficiencies in quality control, procedures, supervision, report preparation, and follow-up, and will help the CGR develop training and TA plans for new audit areas such as public works, construction, budget and public debt control, administrative contracting, and environmen

Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABG-966 (1993). The source's own text.