CDI Sponsors 4th Residential Summer School for
Parliamentary Public Accounts Committees

	^ CDI-sponsored participants to the PAC Summer School: (l to r) | Hon Sato Kilman MP - Vanuatu | Hon Ture Kailo MP - Vanuatu | Mr Leon Teter - Committee Secretary - National Parliament of Vanuatu | Mr Quinton Clements - CDI Deputy Director | Hon Bob Loughman MP - Vanuatu | Mr Henrickson Rolife Malsokle - Office of the Auditor General - Vanuatu

The Public Sector Governance and Accountability Research Centre at La Trobe University in Melbourne held its 4th annual Summer School for Parliamentary Public Accounts Committees in February 2009. The course is sponsored by the World Bank Institute, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the Centre for Democratic Institutions. The course ran from Sunday 8 to Saturday 14 February 2009.

The Program focussed on building effective Public Accounts Committees as the Parliament's primary means of financial scrutiny of the Executive. The program combined both the theoretical and the practical, with a five-day training course in Geelong, and visits to the Parliament of Victoria in Melbourne.

The Summer School is aimed at Chairs and Members of Public Accounts Committees, Auditors-General and Audit Office staff, and Public Accounts Committees staff. Participants from a range of countries including Tonga, Samoa, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia were invited to participate.

Click on the links below for further information:

The 4th Residential Summer School for Parliamentary PACs | La Trobe University | February 2009:
	Course Reports, presentations and other documents on the PSGARC website		Course Schedule
	Course Outline		Group Photo
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	The Public Sector Governance and Accountability Research Centre | La Trobe University
	Commonwealth Parliamentary Association		World Bank Institute
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	Last year's Summer School for Parliamentary PACs @ La Trobe | Feb 2008
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