Technical Auditing of Road Projects

Abstract

This guideline document on technical auditing of road projects is a step in the right direction towards ensuring that the road projects undertaken in Botswana are appropriately designed and constructed. Financial auditing of public funded projects are done but it is the technical audit which had not received any attention in the past. The need for producing a guideline on such an important aspect arose from the fact that very recently, some of the road projects implemented in the country have either failed pre - maturely and/or are in the process of showing distress ultimately leading to failure in the near future. The irony is that it has not been possible to portion accountability to parties involved in the contract. It is my hope that Roads authorities, administrators and organizations will start thinking about carrying out Technical Audit of road projects in order to ensure that the government and public in general get value for investment incurred. The guideline describes step by step procedures involved in a technical audit process and details the methodology required to conduct a technical audit. This guideline will certainly go a long way in implementing road projects in the right manner and introduce accountability on the part of all Stakeholders, the Client, Consultant or the Contractor.