An Assessment on the Status and Challenges of Mainstreaming Gender Performance Audit: The Case of the Office of the Federal Auditor General (OFAG), Ethiopia
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2023-04
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Addis Ababa University
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Gender performance audit, which is the focus of this study, is a tool used to identify important gaps and difficulties during an entity‟s gender mainstreaming activities, offers methods to solve them and new and more effective techniques, and publishes excellent practices toward achieving gender equality. The study is conducted at the Office of the Federal Auditor General (OFAG), Ethiopia with the objective of assessing the status and challenges to mainstream gender performance audit as an audit type. The study is qualitative in design and it utilized both primary and secondary sources of data. The study tends to prove that the existing status of mainstreaming gender performance audit in OFAG as a separate audit type is in preliminary level. It also proved that there is lack of readymade gender performance audit manual which can be used to conduct the audit under study. It also confirmed that there is lack of attention given for gender performance audit from the senior management of OFAG and there is also lack of awareness from its employees about it. As it is on trial level, there is lack of gender expertise that have the necessary knowledge on gender issues. Likewise, Absence of organizational structural arrangement for gender performance audit in the office is found to be a key challenge to mainstream it as a separate audit type. In addition the finding shows that, there is lack of gender audit curriculum in the office.
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Performance Audit, Gender Performance Audit, Mainstreaming Gender Performance Audit.