Internal Audit: Who we Are

The CGIAR Centers receive internal auditing services from a global network of internal audit professionals. Our network comprises:

• full-time staff recruited both centrally, through the CGIAR Internal Auditing Unit, and through particular Centers;
• specialist international and local short term consultants.

We work together, as one community of practice, to achieve international standards and ensure efficient and effective service to the Centers.

Our locations:

The CGIAR Internal Auditing Unit

As well as providing services to individual Centers, the CGIAR Internal Auditing Unit - as a CGIAR System Office unit - provides professional leadership to the network and internal audit services for CGIAR System-wide programs and initiatives; coordinates internal audit activities with other review activities and special initiatives within the System; and works closely with the other System Office units to promote good governance, risk management, internal control and accountability within the CGIAR System.

The Unit is headquartered at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, Philippines, where the IAU Director is located, but some of the staff are dispersed in other regions. The Interim Associate Director in Latin America is based in Washington DC, while the Interim Associate Director in Africa is hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya.  Another Associate Director is hosted by ICRISAT in Hyderabad, India. IAU staff, including Program Assistants, manage or assist audit work for a number of other Centers besides their host Centers.

The full time and part time staff of the Unit and their locations are shown below:

Internal Audit Units	Contact Names		Contact E-Mail
CGIAR-IAU		Blanshard Marke IAU Director, IRRI Philippines	w.marke@cgiar.org
CGIAR-IAU	Ahmad Sartip IAU Interim Associate Director for Latin America Washington, DC		a.sartip@cgiar.org
CGIAR-IAU	T.N. Menon IAU Associate Director, ICRISAT, India		t.menon@cgiar.org
CGIAR-IAU	Nelson Kaburu IAU Interim Associate Director, ILRI, Kenya		n.kaburu@cgiar.org
CGIAR-IAU	Virginia Maria "Vima" Salazar Senior Internal Auditor, IRRI, Philippines		v.m.salazar@cgiar.org
CGIAR-IAU	Daisy Saludo Senior Internal Auditor, IRRI, Philippines		d.saludo@cgiar.org
CGIAR-IAU	Rachel Sarmiento Program Assistant, IRRI, Philippines		r.a.sarmiento@cgiar.org
CGIAR-IAU	Pauline Aluoch Program Assistant, ILRI, Kenya		p.aluoch@cgiar.org
Africa Rice Center (WARDA)	Mohamed Mouhidiny Abdou Internal Auditor Cosme Idohou Assistant Internal Auditor		m.abdou@cgiar.org c.idohou@cgiar.org
CIAT	Carolina Paris Alzate Internal Audit Assistant		c.paris@cgiar.org
CIMMYT	Salvador Galvan Internal Auditor Yunuhe Reyes Internal Audit Assistant		s.galvan@cgiar.org y.reyes@cgiar.org
ICARDA	Ali Taleb Abu Hanish Internal Auditor		a.abuhanish@cgiar.org
ICRISAT	T. Kulashekar Internal Audit Senior Manager K. Basaveswara Rao Senior Audit Officer		t.kulashekar@cgiar.org k.b.rao@cgiar.org
IITA	Rasheed Fagbenro Senior Internal Auditor Oyetunde Odesola Intermediate Auditor Martins Wale Ogunniyi Junior Auditor Gbolahan Isaiah Adenekan Audit Trainee		r.fagbenro@cgiar.org o.odesola@cgiar.org m.ogunniyi@cgiar.org g. adenekan@cgiar.org
ILRI	Peter Getugi Internal Auditor Manager George Gachanga Internal Auditor, Nairobi Ashenafi Wegayehu Internal Auditor, Addis Ababa		p.getugi@cgiar.org g.gachanga@cgiar.org a.wegayehu@cgiar.org
World Agroforestry	Alison Ng'eny Internal Auditor Samuel Kiunga Assistant Internal Auditor		a.ngeny@cgiar.org s.kiunga@cgiar.org