The ASEANSAI Executive Committee Meeting was held from 19 to 20 February 2018 in Vientiane, Lao PDR. The meeting aims to discuss and formulate the strategy of coordination among the Executive Committee for the implementation of ASEANSAI activities.
The meeting was preceded by a courtesy call between the delegates and Dr. Mrs. Viengthong Siphandone as the President of SAO Lao PDR and Chairperson of ASEANSAI. She expressed her thankful for the attendance of the participants. Then, it was continued by speech from Mr. Bounpone VANNACHITH, Vice President of State Audit Organization of Lao PDR to officially open the Executive Committee Meeting. He emphasized the meeting objective and the importance of collaboration among the Executive Committee to ensure that the Work Plan can be implemented in timely manner. He also stressed in his second point that to be able to carry out the task, it is necessary to comply with the Rules and Procedures of ASEANSAI.
Twelve delegates attended the meeting, consist of SAI Lao PDR as the representative of Chairperson of ASEANSAI, SAI Malaysia the representative of Vice Chairperson of ASEANSAI, SAI Indonesia as the Secretariat and SAI Philippines as the representative of Training Committee. The Executive Committee Meeting was chaired by Mr. Heng Khanthavixay from SAI Lao and Mr. Roslan Abu Bakar from SAI Malaysia.
The meeting reach the agreement on some strategic issues related to the implementation of ASEANSAI Strategic Plan and Work Plan (alignment of activities between Training and Knowledge Sharing Committee), communication procedures internal the Executive Committee (focal contact, mechanism and service level of agreement) and donor relations (establishment of donor platform, breakthrough mechanism and possible area of cooperation).