The report was prepared by the OECD Public Sector Integrity Division of the Directorate of Public Governance under the direction of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director for Public Governance and Julio Bacio Terracino, Acting Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division. The report was co-ordinated and drafted by Giulio Nessi of the Public Sector Integrity Division. The report benefitted from the insights and comments from Frédéric Boehm of the Public Sector Integrity Division and from Juan Vazquez Zamora and Cristina Cabutto of the OECD Development Centre. Editorial and administrative assistance was provided by Meral Gedik, Rania Haidar, Andrea Uhrhammer, Laura Uribe, Charles Victor, and Laura Voelker. Laura Córdoba Reyes carried out preliminary research for the report. The Spanish translation of the report was prepared by Carmen Navarrete and edited by the technical team of the Open Government Directorate of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic of Ecuador.
We thank the financial and technical support given by the German Technical Cooperation, implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, through the Programme “Ecuador SinCero – Prevention of Corruption, Transparency and Citizen Participation”, led by Fiorella Mayaute. In particular Jessica Leguia and Germán Guerra, part of the technical team of Ecuador SinCero, for the support and contributions to the report.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the Government of Ecuador as well as all the public institutions which took part in the process for their co‑operation, in particular the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic (Secretaría General de la Presidencia de la República), the Technical Secretariat “Planifica Ecuador” (Secretaria Técnica Planifica Ecuador), the Ministry of Labour (Ministerio del Trabajo), the Ministry of Health (Ministerio de Salud Pública), the Internal Revenue Service (Servicio de Rentas Internas), the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries (Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca), the National Public Procurement Service (Servicio Nacional de Contratación Pública), the Coordinating Company of Public Companies (Empresa Coordinadora de Empresas Públicas), the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas), the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (Consejo de Participación Ciudadana y Control Social), the Comptroller General's Office (Contraloría General del Estado), the Ombudsman's Office (Defensoría del Pueblo), the Technical Secretariat of the Transparency and Control Function´s Coordination Committee (Secretaría Técnica del Comité Coordinación Función Trasparencia y Control), the National Assembly (Asamblea Nacional), the Judicial Council (Consejo de la Judicatura), and the Municipality of Quito’s Metropolitan District (Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito). The OECD would also like to thank the organisations from civil society, private sector and academia which provided valuable insights and perspectives for the elaboration of the report, in particular the Chamber of Commerce of Quito (Cámara de Comercio de Quito), the Construction Industry Chamber (Cámara de la Industria de la Construcción), Centro Segundo Montes Mozo, Corporación Participación Ciudadana, Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo, Fundación de Ayuda por Internet, Fundación Diálogo Diverso, Fundación Grupo Esquel, Grupo FARO, Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales, and the Hemispheres University (Universidad Hemisferios). Finally, the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic - in particular Nicolas José Issa Wagner, General Secretary of the Presidency, Ernesto Emilio Varas Valdéz, Undersecretary General of Government Management, María Fernanda Ordoñez Delgado, Undersecretary of Public Administration, Nelson Sebastián Robelly Alarcón, Open Government Director, and the technical team of the Open Government Directorate - deserves special mention for co-ordinating all the activities, including the virtual fact-finding mission held in December 2020, and the virtual workshops organised in March 2021 where the preliminary recommendations were presented and discussed with representatives from public institutions, civil society, private sector and academia.
This report also benefited from invaluable input provided by OECD peers, in particular Daniella Carizzo, National Civil Service Directorate of Chile (Dirección Nacional del Servicio Civil), and Gonzalo Guerrero Valle, Ministry of the Interior and Public Security of Chile (Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública).