Annual General Report of the Controller and Auditor General on the Audit of Development Projects for the year ended 30 June 2018
Pursuant to Article 143(4) of the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania of 1977 (as amended from time to time) and Section 34 (1) (c) of the Public Audit Act, 2008, I hereby submit to you my Eighth Annual General Report on audit of Development Projects for the year ended 30 June 2018.
This report aims at providing our stakeholders with analysis of the findings arising from the 469 individual audits on 87 development projects conducted by my office for the year ended 30 June 2018. These projects are mainly funded by the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania and Development Partners.
I have grouped the report into three categories namely finacial performance of projects, physical performance as well as procurement management and governance.
Under financial pereformance, during financial year 2017/2018, these projects had total of TZS 2.65 trillion whereby a total of TZS 1.64 trillion were spent and TZS 1.01 trillion remained as closing balance on 30 June 2018.
There were 5,686 outstanding audit recommendations from all development projects during the financial year ended 30 June 2018. Out of which, 1991 equivalent to 35 percent were implemented; 1,000 equivalent to 18 percent were under implementation; 1,953 equivalent to 34 percent were not implemented, and 742 equivalent to 13 percent were overtaken by events. In the financial year 2017/2018, I have issued 455 unqualified opinions and 14 qualified opinion. The key findings noted in financial management controls in the year under audit are as follows...