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In accordance with provisions of the Financial Administration Act, every five years, IDRC is required to have a special examination carried out on its financial and management control and information systems and management practices.

The purpose of the special examination is to determine if these systems and practices were, in the period under examination, maintained in a manner to provide reasonable assurance that the IDRC’s assets are safeguarded and controlled; that its financial, human, and physical resources are managed economically and efficiently; and its operations are carried out effectively. It is the responsibility of the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of Canada to express an opinion on whether there is reasonable assurance that during the period covered by the examination there were no significant deficiencies in the systems and practices examined.

This assurance was provided to the IDRC’s Board of Governors on March 27^th, 2008 when the OAG presented their Special Examination Report that found no significant deficiencies in the systems and practices examined.

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