Transparency in government

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According to a transparency in government index presented by civil society group Citizen Participation (PC), the Attorney General's Office (at 78.40%) is the most transparent government office and the Ministry of Agriculture (at 12.23%) the least. Also analyzed were the ministries of Education-SEE (45.66%), Public Health-SESPAS (34.56%), Public Works-SEOPC (66.49%), Labor-SET (48.47%), Environment-SEMARN (35.26%), Foreign Relations-SEREX (20.04%). PC used the Colombian national transparency index for the study that was prepared by consultants Isis Duarte, Ramonina Brea and Jose Oviedo and presented on Wednesday. Transparency indicators were institutionalism and efficiency, investigations, penalties and openness and accountability. Under these, the researchers studied the departments posting of information on the Internet, systems to attend to complaints and requests, existence of complaints, statement of assets by officials, contracting risks, investigations and penalties for faults, among others.
The consultants say that to their surprise one of the lowest indexes was the lack of existing rulings and their fulfillment.

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