On September 25, 2015, the General Meeting of the United Nations established the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). This agenda contains seventeen items, such as banishing poverty, durable consumption and production. The Member States, among which also the Netherlands, must take care of the implementation of the SDGs in their countries. Curaçao also adopted the 2030 Agenda.
The role of the Supreme Audit Institutions in question is to conduct research into the implementation of goals. The International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) and the ‘Organización Lationamericana y del Caribe de Entidades Fiscalizadoras Superiores (OLACEFS)’ guide the Supreme Audit Institutions in this matter. In this framework, the Supreme Audit Institution of Curaçao participated in 2017 in the second seminar on SDGs.
The seminar took place in Chile from October 23 through 25, 2017 where various themes were dealt with, such as supervision of government entities and the fight against corruption. The Supreme Audit Institutions of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay also participated in this seminar.
Parallel to the seminar, the Representatives, referred to above, participated in a workshop. In this workshop, the Participants were given tools for the research on the implementation of the SDGs. The Supreme Audit Institution will use the knowledge gained when researching the implementation of the SGDs by the Government.
