• Annual financial audits by international audit firms. All our reports are available on the INDEPTH website. Please click here to review our audited accounts since 2001;
• Auditors report to the AGM on the outcome of audit exercises; and
• Additional audits or due diligence exercises conducted by or on behalf of INDEPTH funders in the form of external evaluations.

From 2007-2017, one of our key core support funders, Sida/Research Cooperation, has financed the following external evaluations:

1. November 2007 – Internal Management and Financial Controls; by Carl-Gustaf Gutberg, Consultant, Stockholm, Sweden;
2. March 2010 – External Review of the Organisation; by Dr. Samson Kinyanjui (Kilifi, Kenya) and Prof. Ian Timaeus (LSHTM, London, UK); and
3. March 2013 – Internal Management and Financial Controls; by PWC Sweden
4. April-June 2017 - Internal Management and Financial Controls; by KPMG Finland.

This clearly demonstrates that INDEPTH has always welcomed external assessments. We see these assessments as helpful tools to an organisation like ours. They help us maintain our credibility and they ensure that funders continue to have confidence in how we handle their resources. The assessments are shared with other funders so that they do not need to repeat them.

Management always prepares Management Responses, get these endorsed by the INDEPTH Board before they are submitted to the funder. Observations and recommendations made by the external auditors are taken seriously. An action plan is prepared by Management and endorsed by the Board to ensure  that the actions are implemented timeously.
 

Identifying local vulnerabilities to mitigate spread of Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers in Africa

A new scientific study provides the first evidence-based assessment of pandemic potential in Africa prior to outbreaks and identifies ways to prevent them.

The study, published today in the international medical journal The Lancet, examines the potential for the widespread onset of Ebola or other lethal viral hemorrhagic fevers emanating from communities in African countries. A team of international researchers examined the relative likelihood of four deadly viruses emerging and spreading at several key stages in a possible pandemic, charting and quantifying progress from the first human case through to a widespread epidemic. Read more