IDI’s Board approved the Operational Plan and Budget for 2025 in its meeting on 27 November 2024. In the second year of implementing the IDI Strategic Plan 2024-2029, IDI reinforces its commitment to developing independent, credible, and sustainable Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) for better societies and improved lives. IDI continues to provide stable and predictable support, contributing to three strategic priorities: sustainability, digitalisation, and public trust in SAIs. 

Highlights of the 2025 Operational Plan include among others, IDI’s engagement and support to:

• Advance SAI independence and its role as part of the accountability eco-system, SAI leadership and strategic management.
• Enhance technology governance, to leverage technology and professional education for SAI auditors (PESA) and grow PESA as an accredited qualification.
• Conduct audits in emerging and trending areas.
• Intensify support to SAIs in Small Island Developing Countries (SIDS), strengthen audit quality management, and facilitate audit impact.
• Provide holistic bilateral support for selected SAIs.
• Apply a gender and inclusion lens to all delivery.

The Board also reflected on the implementation of recommendations from the recent IDI Organisational Review, approved IDI’s Corporate and Developmental Risk Register, IDI’s future approach to reporting, and its updated Bilateral Policy.

Minutes of the Board meeting, the Operational Plan and Budget 2025, and the updated Bilateral Policy will be published on IDI’s website shortly.