Lead authors: Renzo Lavin & Carolina Cornejo (ACIJ)
- Module 02
- Dissemination of Audit Results to Different Stakeholders
Dissemination of Audit Results to Different Stakeholders
Targeting the right audience
Given the objective to expand the use of audit reports, it is necessary to identify potential beneficiaries. A series of questions must first be posed
- Whose interest is the audit topic likely to raise?
- Does the topic respond to issues that stakeholders have brought to the SAI’s attention?
- Does the topic cover an area of high risk that demands urgent action? If so, who can take action in this field?
- Does the topic refer to an area in which specific agents have already taken action? If so, who are these agents? And what have they done?
Answering these questions will help to identify the audience of a specific report. However, it can take a great deal of time and a lot of resources to target a wide audience working on a certain field. This is nevertheless a necessary step, so it is important to create a database of potential beneficiaries according to type of agent and topics of interest.
Check the following example:
SUBJECT OF THE REPORT: Education |
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| AUDIENCE | SPECIFIC AGENTS | AREA OF EXPERTISE/INTEREST | ACTIONS UNDERTAKEN |
| Legislature |
Education Commission |
Education |
Bills on education |
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Finance Commission |
Education budget |
Budget allocation |
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| Civil Society |
CSO |
Litigation on human rights |
CSO that litigated to ensure effective access to education by children living in urban slums |
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Think Tank |
Education policy |
Think Tank that developed a series of policy analysis on the national education system |
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Work Unions gathering professionals on education |
Representation and aggregation of workers´ rights and interests |
Demands on improvement of teachers’ income and working conditions |
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Colleges of Graduates and Teachers |
Education policy |
Participation in education bills |
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Students´ governments |
Defense of students’ right to education |
Participation in the design of courses and programs on education |
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Boards of education |
Education policy |
Participation in the design of courses and education programs |
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| Media |
Graphic Media Journalists Electronic Press Journalists Radio Journalists |
Communication on education issues or other broader themes |
Journalists who broadly covered the news on education bill /developed an investigation on corruption in education budget allocation / other related activities. |
| Other state agencies |
Ombudsman Prosecutor Office |
Litigation on human Rights |
Litigation to defend right to education |
| Independent experts |
Former Ministers of Education Former deans of Education Experts or consultants |
Education research and policies |
Research has been used by policy makers in the field of education |
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