Today, on May 4, representatives of the State Audit Office held public meeting with Imereti region representatives. At the meeting, they discussed main gaps revealed as a result of audits conducted by the State Audit Office in municipalities and issued recommendations.
In addition, SAO’s representatives informed members of meeting regarding the innovative web-platform introduced by the State Audit Office – budget monitor (www.budgetmonitor.ge). Budget monitor gives members of Sakrebulo, representatives of civil society, concerned experts and citizens, the unique possibility to choose an interesting area for them and to get permanently updated and reliable information on revenues, expenditures, transfers, infrastructure projects, administrative expenses, expenses of legal entities of each municipality as well as findings and recommendations on these issues.
Public meeting of the same format will take place in Georgia’s different cities as well – Zugdidi, Ozurgeti, Batumi, Tbilisi. Public meeting has been taking place within the framework the project “Increase of citizens’ involvement in audit process” of the joint SAO and USAID program “Good Governance Initiative”.
