{"id":117347,"date":"2026-01-26T13:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=117347"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:34:30","slug":"media-advisory-wpsr2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2026\/01\/media-advisory-wpsr2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advisory | UN report highlights critical role of supreme audit institutions in assessing national action to deliver the SDGs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-117004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Shot-2025-11-13-at-1.50.50-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Shot-2025-11-13-at-1.50.50-PM-150x34.png 150w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Shot-2025-11-13-at-1.50.50-PM-200x45.png 200w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Shot-2025-11-13-at-1.50.50-PM-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Shot-2025-11-13-at-1.50.50-PM-400x90.png 400w, https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Shot-2025-11-13-at-1.50.50-PM.png 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Media advisory<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>UN report highlights critical role of supreme audit institutions in assessing national action to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT:<\/strong> <strong>Webinar to present the findings of the World Public Sector Report 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As countries work to advance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/\">the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<\/a>, supreme audit institutions (SAIs) are emerging as critical partners in assessing countries\u2019 public finance and the effectiveness of national policies for equity, climate action and preparedness on the SDGs. The <strong><em>World Public Sector Report<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>2025<\/em><\/strong> \u2014 a biennial publication of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) \u2014calls for stronger integration of audit findings into national policy and planning.<\/p>\n<p>Given their central role in national accountability systems, SAIs are uniquely positioned to provide evidence-based insights that can help governments strengthen accountability and drive progress on the SDGs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Navid Hanif, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, UN DESA<\/li>\n<li>David Le Blanc, coordinator of the report, Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government, UN DESA<\/li>\n<li>Silke Steiner, Director, General Secretariat of INTOSAI<\/li>\n<li>Anjali Garg, independent consultant, former Head of the Open Budget Survey<\/li>\n<li>Archana Shirsat, Deputy Director General, INTOSAI Development Initiative<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WHEN: Friday, 30 January 2026, 8:00 a.m. EST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE: Online via Zoom<br \/>\nTo register: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_q0mA-5YSTZyVWahbs11FT\">https:\/\/zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_q0mA-5YSTZyVWahbs11FT \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about the World Public Sector Report 2025<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/publicadministration.desa.un.org\/publications\/world-public-sector-report-2025\">https:\/\/publicadministration.desa.un.org\/publications\/world-public-sector-report-2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sharon Birch, UN Department of Global Communications, <a href=\"mailto:birchs@un.org\">birchs@un.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Helen Rosengren, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:rosengrenh@un.org\">rosengrenh@un.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media advisory UN report highlights critical role of supreme audit  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117350,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117347\/revisions\/117350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}