The Asian Development Bank (ADB) selected the software used by Izmir Metropolitan Municipality for planning internal audit activities and monitoring its outcomes as the “best practice of using information technologies in internal auditing”.

The practices used in Izmir will be one of the 8 presentations to be delivered at “IaTech 2018” conference to be organized in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, on November 22 and 23, 2018.

The Asian Development Bank, which was established in 1966 for reducing poverty of the Asian and Pacific countries and facilitating development of these countries, has 66 members, including Turkey, and the Bank will host this conference to be organized with the theme of “Embracing Digital Technology in Internal Audit”. Internal Audit Department of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality will attend to “IaTech 2018” as a “municipality experienced in use of audit technologies in planning and monitoring” and participants from 85 countries are expected to attend this conference. The organization aims to encourage the internal auditors of the public sector to learn and share digital technologies and the participants shall have the chance of meeting and sharing ideas with the global practitioner of internal audit business.
Our Internal Audit Practices…

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality was nominated as the “pilot municipality” out of all municipalities in Turkey by the Ministry of Finance under the scope project launched by the World Bank for “supporting internal auditing activities and improving technical skills of internal auditors”. In 2010, a report issued by the internal auditors of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality was selected as the “best practice to be shared” in terms of compliance with the internal audit methodology and public internal audit standards in Turkey, and it was shared with the auditors of the local governments during a meeting organized in Antalya. Furthermore, the Internal Audit Department of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality on Information Technologies does not have high audit capacity in the segment of Information Technologies but, still, an audit conducted in this segment was shared with the internal auditors of the other public institutions as “Sharing Experiences Internal Audit Departments” under the scope of 7th Public Internal Auditor Training Program organized in Antalya in 2016. Finally, one representative from Izmir Metropolitan Municipality was on the 5-person internal auditor team that represented our country in the workshop organized in Austria / Vienna between 19 -22 June, 2017 and 04-07 June, 2018 by the World Bank under the scope of “Training Trainers of Public Sector Internal Audit Segment”.