KUWAIT: The Undersecretary of the State Audit Bureau, Yousef Al-Mazrouei, announced the completion of a database project for environmental reports related to sustainable development goals, with the aim of exchanging experience and knowledge between the regulatory bodies in the Arab Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions.

He said in a press statement Monday, following the ninth meeting of the Oversight Committee on Sustainable Development Goals, held in Kuwait with the participation of nine oversight bodies headed by the Supreme Council of Accounts in Morocco, that the meeting will discuss the committee’s work plan for the year 2023 and the completed projects.

Senior Advisor to the Supreme Council of Accounts in Morocco and Chairman of the Sustainable Development Goals Oversight Committee, Aziz Idris, said in a similar statement that the meeting comes in the context of preparing for the organization’s Executive Council and the Development Goals Oversight Committee, which is one of the strategic committees.

Idris added that the 2030 agenda for supreme audit bodies developed by the United Nations received the attention of the Arab Organization for Oversight and Accounting. He said the plan has important roles in terms of improving governance, oversight and transparency. He pointed to the slowdown in achieving the goals of the agenda due to the problem of financing sustainable development, noting that 15 percent of the goals and objectives are on the “right track,” which is one of the United Nations’ assessments at the international level in achieving the 2030 sustainable development goals.

Chief Auditor at the Audit Bureau, Dina Al-Saqabi, said in a statement that the Bureau participated in this meeting to present a project to create a database for environmental reports related to sustainable development goals. Al-Saqabi added that the Bureau reviewed a group of reports on desertification, climate and fresh water, explaining that each agency presents its project to exchange experience in this regard. — KUNA