Governance & Accountability

Organizations that are strong in conducting public participation commonly adopt a set of principles. This ensures that a common set of values characterize any public participation effort, while permitting the flexibility necessary to cater to the range of public participation settings. This report summarizes examples of commonly used principles for engaging in public participation.

This follow-up report provides audit level assurance on four of the 18 self-assessments from ministries and organizations in implementing recommendations from recent reports, verifies progress for 26 recommendations from four reports, and contains a follow-up to our 2011 report on BC Hydro.

This audit emphasizes the importance of government ensuring its procurement practices and policies are fair and consistently achieve the right services at the right price and time.

This report was discussed by the Legislative Assembly's Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts on December 8, 2014.

University Board Governance Examinations is the third report in a series on board governance. It examines the board governance practices of three BC universities: the University of Victoria (UVic), Capilano University and Thompson Rivers University (TRU), as well as the Ministry of Advanced Education in providing support for university governance and accountability.