Controladoria-Geral da União Jorge Hage Minister of State, Head of the Office of the Comptroller General Panel I Is Transparency Delivering (In Brazil)

Apresentação em tema: "Controladoria-Geral da União Jorge Hage Minister of State, Head of the Office of the Comptroller General Panel I Is Transparency Delivering (In Brazil)"— Transcrição da apresentação:

1 Controladoria-Geral da União Jorge Hage Minister of State, Head of the Office of the Comptroller General Panel I Is Transparency Delivering (In Brazil) ? Americas Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information Lima, April 28th 2009

2 Controladoria-Geral da União Inspiring References: "A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives." James Madison “Sunlight is the best disinfectant ” Louis Brandeis 2

3 Controladoria-Geral da União CGU – Our view on the matter Transparency as pre-condition to: - fight against corruption - improvement of public management - social control - social inclusion 3

4 Controladoria-Geral da União There are 2 kinds of transparency: Active/SpontaneousandPassive/Demanded 4

5 Controladoria-Geral da União Important actions taken by the Brazilian Government towards openness and transparency 5

6 Controladoria-Geral da União Transparency time line e-procurement Transparency Pages (ministries) Purchase Cards on Web Audit Reports on Web Transparency Portal in states and local governments Web-based system for Federal Transfers: Siconv End of “B Accounts”- Purchase Cards mandatory Black List on Web on Web 2005 200620072008 SICAF – Suppliers Registration System 6 2004 Transparency Portal

7 Controladoria-Geral da União May, 2009: Bill on Access to Information 7

8 Controladoria-Geral da União TRANSPARENCY PORTAL 8

9 Controladoria-Geral da União The Transparency Portal provides information on: Resources applied directly by the federal departments Federal resources transferred from the federal level to states and municipalities. Federal resources transferred directly to citizens. Transactions on the Federal Government's Purchase Card. 9 www.portaldatransparencia.gov.br

10 Controladoria-Geral da União Data referring to the spending of each department or entity (self-managed federal entities, foundations, state and semistate enterprises), with information on each procurement process, each contract and each agreement. Public Transparency Pages of each federal department 10

11 Controladoria-Geral da União Transparency Portal Transfers Direct Spending Punished Firms Budget year By state/county spending category Transfers to citizens 11

12 Controladoria-Geral da União Transparency Portal in Numbers: Amount displayed Information Over US$ 2 trillion Over 780 m. entries Visits in 2008 1,443,610 12

13 Controladoria-Geral da União International Awards UNODC Award 2008 “Important work on promotion of transparency on public money spending” One of the five best practices in strategies for transparency and fight on corruption in the world UNCAC States Parties Conference Bali 2008 13

14 Controladoria-Geral da União - Currently, 11 Brazilian state governments are running adapted versions of the Transparency Portal - Other 3 states and several municipalities are developing theirs Transparency Portals with CGU support - In all cases, CGU provides know-how and technicians to help on development Spreading Transparency countrywide: 14

15 Controladoria-Geral da União List of Ineligible Firms - CEIS 133 firms declared ineligible 777 firms temporarily suspended 15

16 Controladoria-Geral da União 133 Ineligible Firms 133 Ineligible Firms Firm’s identification Sanctioned by Source of information State 16

17 Controladoria-Geral da União 777 suspended firms 777 suspended firms Firm’s identification Sanctioned by State Source of information 17

18 Controladoria-Geral da União 18 Federal Government’s Purchase Card

19 Controladoria-Geral da União Executive Order number 6.370, February 1st, 2008 February 1st, 2008 - - Establish the end of “B Accounts” for small purchases, which were not transparent and hardly accountable - - Use of the Purchase Card became mandatory for small purchases - - Cash withdraws strongly limited - - Spending with the Purchase Card displayed Online 19

20 Controladoria-Geral da União Reduction on spending - 2007/2008 Small Purchases using “B Accounts”: 2007 - R$ 168.374.665,00 2008 - R$ 116.488.772,00 Using Purchases Card: 2007 - R$ 76.254.492,00 2008 - R$ 55.257.326,00 - 31% - 27% 20

21 Controladoria-Geral da União Reduction on spending: 1st quarters of 2007-2008-2009 21

22 Controladoria-Geral da União 45% Fonte: Cartão de Pagamento - Portal da Transparência; Contas Tipo B e outros - Siafi Gerencial (*até 23 de março) Total Amount on Small Purchases 22 1st Quarter

23 Controladoria-Geral da União 200720082009 Fonte: Cartão de Pagamento - Portal da Transparência; Contas Tipo B e outros - Siafi Gerencial (*até 23 de março) B Accounts x Purchase Card 23

24 Controladoria-Geral da União 1º Trim. 2007 = 2.780.218 1º Trim. 2008 = 3.718.304 1º Trim. 2009 = 1.501.075 Fonte: Portal da Transparência 24 Purchase Card - Withdraws

25 Controladoria-Geral da União - - Web-based system for registering agreement procedures between central and local governments - - Standardized and transparent methods - - Information on money transfers, monitoring public policy execution and accounting - - Information freely available on Web Transfers Portal 25

26 Controladoria-Geral da União 26 Transfers Portal

27 Controladoria-Geral da União Other tools for enhancing transparency 27

28 Controladoria-Geral da União Brazilian e-procurement system In 2007 the Federal Government purchased over US$ 8 billion in goods and services using e-procurement 28

29 Controladoria-Geral da União ComprasNet Portal (e-procurement) Comprasnet Portal COMPRASNET is the entry point for the Brazilian Federal Government e- procurement system. In this portal the user may find information on all the Federal Government purchases of goods and services as well as participate in the electronic procurement 29

30 Controladoria-Geral da União Audit Reports Online 30 - On CGU website: Regular Audit reports (Program monitoring), Random Audit reports, Special Audits reports - On each ministry website: Annual Account Audit Reports

31 Controladoria-Geral da União Yes. Transparency is already delivering in Brazil (and it can deliver even more) 31

32 Controladoria-Geral da União CONTROLADORIA-GERAL DA UNIÃO Address: Setor de Autarquia Sul, Quadra 1, Bloco A Edifício Darcy Ribeiro CEP: 70070-905 Phone: +55 61 3412 7241 Fax: +55 61 3412 7230 www.cgu.gov.br cgu@cgu.gov.br Visit the Transparency Portal: www.portaldatransparencia.gov.br