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Enhancing the Oversight Impact of Chile’s Supreme Audit Institution

Applying Behavioural Insights for Public Integrity

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The impact of the work of supreme audit institutions (SAIs) largely depends on the ability and willingness of the audited entities to implement the changes suggested in the audit reports issued by the SAIs. Applying behavioural insights (BI) can help SAIs promote the uptake of their audit reports and recommendations. BI is a perspective based on psychology, cognitive science, and social science that takes into account how humans actually make choices, and can be used to help design better policies. The report analyses how the SAI of Chile, the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR), produces audit reports and monitors their follow-up. Based on this analysis, the report identifies and discusses challenges hampering the timely follow-up and identifies opportunities to use behavioural insights to address them. Ultimately, a behaviourally informed review of the auditing and follow-up process could help significantly improve the added value of the CGR’s work and thus the effectiveness and efficiency of the public administration in Chile.

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Main challenges to the follow-up of audit reports in Chile

This chapter presents the current follow-up process to audit reports in Chile as well as the main challenges that reduce the likelihood that auditees will address audit observations. In Chile, these challenges are mainly related to the quantity of audit observations, perceptions of unfairness, communication as well as capacity constraints. These challenges are, amongst others, leading to decision fatigue and affecting the motivation of auditees and their attitude towards audit in general.

English Also available in: Spanish

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