How we are helping build the Capacity of Government Auditors, globally

Synopsis:

Government audit has traditionally been around financial audit and compliance audit. With
the tremendous growth of government spends there is a need to upskill and build capacity
of government auditors in these two areas, and also performance audit.
We were chosen to be the implementation partner for a structured certification program
owned by an International Association of Government Auditors. We co-designed the
curriculum and developed an instructional model for this target audience, spread across
the world. Extensive usage of scenarios and caselets, based on real-world inputs from the
association’s subject matter experts helped build courseware that connected with the target
audience and made the learning tangible.

The Situation:

The association is an autonomous, independent, and non-political organization that has
provided an institutionalized framework for country institutions to develop and transfer
knowledge, improve government auditing worldwide and enhance professional capacities.
The association wanted to deploy detailed, structured curriculum in the areas of financial
compliance and performance audit along with behavioural training. These were to be hosted
as certification modules on their Learning Management Systems.

The Solution:

We undertook the following:
• Restructuring of classroom-based curriculum for digital self-paced learning in the form
of granular learning outcomes.
• Instructional design aligned with learner profile.
• Development of content collaboratively with SMEs from the Association.
To help the client and our instructional designers select appropriate learning strategies
aligned with the learning content, we developed a Periodic Table of options as a ready
reference.

The Impact:

Over 1000 learners from over 100 countries have participated in a pilot in 2022 with over
50% finishing their stream of 70 hours of learning within 45 days of launch. Feedback is
expected shortly to further enhance impact.