The Auditor General of Liberia, P. Garswa Jackson Sr., and his team were invited to Washington, DC.
Monrovia, December 16, 2024/ On Thursday, December 12, 2024, Liberia’s Auditor General P. Garswa Jackson signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding with the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO).
GAO is the gold standard of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAI) and is renowned for providing top-notch capacity-building initiatives to SAIs globally.
As part of the MoU, the General Auditing Commission (GAC) of Liberia will benefit from capacity-building initiatives from the U.S. GAO Center of Audit Excellence through online and in-person training, and at least one auditor from the GAC will benefit from a three-month secondment program through the prestigious International Auditor Fellowship Program of the GAO annually beginning in April 2025.
“We would like to express our thanks and appreciation to the Honorable Comptroller General of the United States and Head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, Mr. Gene L. Dodaro, and his team for the recognition, collaboration and invaluable opportunity to enhance the capacity of our staff at the GAC. Special thanks also go to the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Liberia for the respective roles they played in validating the impact of our work, leading towards the signing of this MoU,” a statement from the GAC released on Friday said.
The Auditor General and his team will hold several other high-profile profile meetings with the following institutions: Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC); The Global Anti-Corruption Office, U.S. Department of State; Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), U.S. Department of Treasury; and The Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO), United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
