COA Chair first Filipino to serve in UNIAAC

Commission on Audit (COA) Chairperson Maria Gracia M. Pulido Tan has been appointed to the United Nations (UN) Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC). She is the first Filipino to serve in the IAAC since its creation in 2007.

Deputy Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations Janne Taalas, Chair of the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly (GA) of the UN, announced the appointment during the Committee’s 24th Session on December 18, 2013. Chairperson Pulido Tan replaces Mr. Vinod Rai of India as the Asia-Pacific representative of the committee and will serve a three-year term of office beginning January 1, 2014.

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President, COA Chair awarded by media group

President Benigno S. Aquino III and nine others, including Commission on Audit (COA) Chairperson Maria Gracia M. Pulido Tan, were recognized outstanding exemplars who have made significant marks in society by noted media group Bulong Pulungan during its annual Christmas party held at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza on December 3, 2013.

The Bulong Pulungan sa Sofitel organizers noted COA Chairperson Pulido Tan for her “courage, integrity and sheer grit in pursuing the path to justice, despite the many obstacles and personalities standing in the way” and for “daring to break gender stereotypes with a firm, uncompromising stance and steely determination to pursue wrong doers.”

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COA’s Award-Winning Transparency Project Turns One

MANILA, Philippines, November 28, 2013 – The Commission on Audit (COA) celebrated today the first anniversary of its Citizen Participatory Audit (CPA) Project, the Commission’s transparency initiative recently awarded as the "Bright Spot" of the 2013 Open Government Partnership Summit in London.

In her keynote address, COA Chairperson Maria Gracia M. Pulido Tan said, "I have always believed that all of us in government are ultimately accountable to the people we serve. They have the constitutional right to know if their money is being spent properly and judiciously by their public servants. This CPA Project has been designed to do just that – to directly engage citizens in accounting for the effectiveness and efficiency of government projects."

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Support the Candidature

The Commission on Audit (COA) is the Philippines Supreme Audit Institution. It is a fiscally autonomous and constitutionally independent institution headed by a Chairperson whose rank is equivalent to Auditor-General.

The Constitution gives COA the power and duty to audit and settle all government accounts, the authority to define the scope of its audit, report the financial condition and operation of Government, keep its general accounts and, as a quasi-judicial body, decide cases brought before it.

The Constitution gives COA the power and duty to audit and settle all government accounts, the authority to define the scope of its audit, report the financial condition and operation of Government, keep its general accounts and, as a quasi-judicial body, decide cases brought before it.

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