Agua Potable y Saneamiento Básico en Colombia: Importancia, Contexto Contractual y Acciones en Lucha Contra la Corrupción

Abstract

The document prepared in this exercise highlights the importance of access to drinking water and basic sanitation in Colombia, relating its impact on public health and quality of life. In Colombia, the management of drinking water and basic sanitation resources is the normative responsibility of the territorial entities, with financial and technical support from the national government; However, corruption is a significant problem that affects the efficiency and quality of services, in addition to the direct effects on the population, in this same sense a context on public procurement in Colombia is exposed, summarizing the existing regulations. subsequently, anti-corruption processes are addressed in order to analyze the implementation of standard documents, achieving a very important advance to standardize and improve contracting processes, especially in the drinking water and basic sanitation sector; and finally it is shown that, despite from the advances, many challenges arise in areas that require improvements or adjustments to achieve more effective implementation and reduce corruption in public procurement, especially in the drinking water and basic sanitation sector