Environment Canada’s
Risk-Based Audit and Evaluation Plan
2008–2011

May 2008

Audit and Evaluation Branch

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Appendix A – Audit Plan Summary Mapped to Risk Areas


Audit Engagements for Enabling Activities*

Risk Area 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
Financial Reporting
  • Audit of Specified Purpose Accounts
  • Vote Netted Revenue Audit
  • Audit of Accounts Payable at year-end
  • Audit of Accounts Receivable
  • Financial Audit Plan completed in 2007–08.
  • Audits to be determined in the Financial Audit Plan
  • Audits to be determined in the Financial Audit Plan
Financial Planning/Budgeting
Financial Capacity
Assets Management
Information Technology
  • Audit of Technology Infrastructure Directorate
  • Audit of Decision Support Systems completed in 2007–08.
  • Audit of the Information Technology Security completed in 2007–08.
  • Audit of the Chief Information Officer Branch
  • Audit of the Unified Radar Processing Application
  • Audit of the Information Management Directorate
  • Audit of the Departmental Wide Area Telecommunications
  • Audit of the Application Directorate
Information Management
Human Resource Capacity
  • Environment Canada and Branches Human Resource Plans and strategies are developed every year.
  • OAG/CESD Audit of Human Resources Management planned for 2010.
  • Staffing Audit
  • Employment Equity Audit completed in 2007–08.
  • Audit of the Occupational Health and Safety Program
  • Audit on the Delegation of Financial Authority completed in 2007–08.
  • Classification Audit
 
Human Resource Planning
Employment Equity
Occupational Health and Safety
Accountability and Responsibility
Communications
  • Environment Canada is developing an internal communication plan. Risk area to be revisited in context of next year’s plan.
Performance Measurement
  • Issue being addressed in individual evaluations.
Client Services      
Official Languages  
  • Audit of Official Languages
 
Risk Approach & Monitoring    
  • Audit of Risk Management
Contracting
  • Contracting Process Value for Money Audit
   
Structure & Organization Stability      
Change Management      
Values & Ethics  
  • Audit of Values & Ethics
 
Strategic Directions      
*  A more detailed list of the audit engagements is provided in Table 1 of the AE Plan

Evaluation Projects for Program and Policy Activities

Risk Area 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
Air Quality and Climate Change
  • Evaluation of Smog-Causing Emission Regulation in the Transportation Sector
  • Clean Air Regulatory Agenda (Clean Air Agenda) – Interdepartmental Thematic Evaluation Plan
  • Adaptation (Clean Air Agenda) – Thematic Evaluation Plan
  • Horizontal Management Accountability and Reporting Framework (HMARF) (Clean Air Agenda) – Thematic Evaluation Plan
  • Clean Air Community Partnerships (Clean Air Agenda) – Thematic Evaluation Plan
  • Evaluation of the Departmental Climate Change – National Inventory
  • Clean Air Regulatory Agenda Thematic Evaluation
  • Evaluation of the National Air Quality Health Index (Clean Air Agenda)
  • Improve Climate Change Scenarios Evaluation (Clean Air Agenda)
  • Clean Air Community Partnerships Thematic Evaluation
  • Evaluation of the Horizontal Management Accountability and Reporting Framework (HMARF) for the Clean Air Agenda
  • Adaptation Thematic Evaluation Roll-up
  • Clean Air Agenda Horizontal Evaluation Roll-up
National and International Commitments
  • International Actions (Clean Air Agenda) – Thematic Evaluation Plan
  • Evaluation of the Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators
  • International Actions Thematic Evaluation
 
Water Quality  
  • Evaluation of the Great Lakes Action Plan
 
Toxic Substances
  • Chemicals Management Plan – Interdepartmental Evaluation Plan
  • Interdepartmental evaluation on Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan
  • Evaluation of the Environmental Damages Fund
  • Interdepartmental Evaluation on Building Public Confidence in Pesticide Regulation and Improving Access to Pest Management Products
  • Evaluation of the Risk Assessment and Risk Management under CEPA 1999
  • Evaluation of the Chemicals Management Plan
Greening Operations
  • CESD Audit of Greening of Government Operations (March 2008)
  • Evaluation of the Policy on Green Procurement
Biodiversity
  • Evaluation of the Invasive Alien Species Strategy
  • Federal Species at Risk Program – Evaluation Plan
  • Federal Species at Risk Program Evaluation
  • Evaluation of the Northwest Territories Protected Areas Strategy Program
Partnership Arrangements/Agreements
  • Evaluation of the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Initiative
  • Evaluation of the EcoAction Funding
  • Evaluation of the Habitat Stewardship Contribution Program
  • Evaluation of the class Grants to support Environmental Research and Development
  • Evaluation of the class Contributions to support Environmental Research and Development
  • Evaluation of the class Contributions to support Environmental and Sustainable Development Initiatives
  • Evaluation of the class Contribution to support Canada’s International Commitments
 
  • Evaluation of the Partnership Fund
Collaboration with NGOs & Provincial Governments
  • Audit of Hydrometric Monitoring Stations – Federal Provincial Agreement
   

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