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When an HR audit uncovers forged diplomas.
An organisational audit looks at how a structure works. The one carried out for FNDS also looked at who makes it work — and what it found mattered.
Field note · FNDS
An organisation is no stronger than its personnel files.
Related expertise
Human resources and recruitment
The National Statistics Development Fund entrusted us with two assignments in one: an organisational audit of its human resources, and a verification of its staff's qualifications, with detection of forgeries.
The first assesses the structure — how the posts fit together, where things are not working, what can be improved. The second checks that the people in post actually hold the qualifications they declare. The two go together: reorganising functions without knowing who really occupies them is building on sand.
What the assignment brought to light
By the end of the work, several cases of forged diplomas had been detected. This is not an anecdote: it is the kind of finding an organisation would rather learn from an audit it commissioned than from a third party.
The work on the structure, for its part, improved the Fund's human resources management: identifying what was not working, proposing solutions, ensuring the integrity of professional records.
Why it matters for what follows
FNDS presented this collaboration as a step in its commitment to strengthening transparency, compliance and performance across the organisation. That is exactly the order these three words should come in: you do not perform, over time, on foundations you have not checked.
One clarification, because the term is ambiguous: what we call « Human resources and recruitment » is a service we sell to organisations. It is not a careers page.
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