Welcome to the United Nations
The first on-line meeting of experts under United Nations auspices was an Ad Hoc Expert Group Meeting on Effecting Transparency and Accountability in Government Financial Management. The meeting was held in New York, Addis Ababa, Accra, Mbabane, Nairobi and Kampala from 23-30 June 1997. Out of nine African participants, eight were practitioners, mainly at the Accountant-General and AuditorGeneral level, and one was an academic.
The focus of the Meeting was on weaknesses in systems of accountability and transparency that facilitate unethical behaviour, and the aim was to suggest solutions to these weaknesses. This publication comprises a basic issues paper by the UN secretariat, eight country papers covering Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Swaziland and Uganda, and the Report of the Experts. Comments on the conduct of on-line meetings are also included.