Debilidad institucional de las Contralorías Departamentales según Índice Transparencia de las Entidades Públicas (ITEP)

Abstract

In the dimension of the Decentralized Unitary Republic of the Colombian State, the territorial comptrollerships (Departmental, District and Municipal), in their capacity as technical entity with administrative and budgetary autonomy, are responsible for exercising the public function of monitoring the fiscal management of the administration. and of the individuals or entities that handle funds or assets of the Nation. The oversight of the fiscal management of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic as well as of the territorial ones corresponds to the General Auditor of the Republic (AGR). In the exercise of social control, the Transparency for Colombia Corporation, during four times has evaluated with the departmental transparency index, the risk of administrative corruption of the departmental governors and comptrollers, in the last measurement 2013-2014 a rating that indicates a high risk of corruption, both in the governorates and in the departmental comptrollers' offices. The document, in the context of the framework of the comprehensive anti-corruption public policy, performs the analysis of the evaluation carried out through the transparency indices and the risks of corruption in the departmental comptrollers' offices.