Safeguards Assessment—2019 Update

Policy Papers, December 17, 2019

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• Authors: George M Kabwe, Elie Chamoun, Riaan van Greuning, Mowele Mohlala, Julia Cardoso
• Published: December 17, 2019
• Series: Policy Papers
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513523019.007

Summary and purpose

• Safeguards assessments are a key pillar of the risk management arrangements for IMF lending.
• Safeguards assessments aim to mitigate the risks of misuse of Fund resources and misreporting of program monetary data under Fund arrangements.
• Safeguards assessment reports are confidential.
• The IMF Executive Board is provided with a periodic report on safeguards activities on a biennial basis.
• High-level summaries of key findings and recommendations are included in member country staff reports.

Coverage period

• This update on safeguards activity covers the period May 2017 to end-April 2019 (the period).

Key themes and subject areas

• Auditing
• Banking
• Central bank governance
• Central banks
• Economic and financial statistics
• External audit
• Internal audit
• Labor
• Monetary statistics
• Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords (as listed)

• audit
• Auditing
• central bank
• central bank authority
• central bank autonomy provision
• Central bank governance
• central bank participant
• central bank safeguards framework
• Europe
• External audit
• Global
• governance
• governance arrangement
• Internal audit
• lending
• Middle East
• Monetary statistics
• PP
• risk management framework
• West Africa
• Western Hemisphere

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