The report was prepared by the OECD Public Sector Integrity Division of the Directorate for 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 Frédéric Boehm. Giulio Nessi, Carissa Munro, Maria Camila Porras, Camila Gomes and Laura Uribe provided invaluable support and inputs. Alessandro Bellantoni, David Goessmann, Emma Cantera and Claire McEvoy provided feedback. The report was peer-reviewed by Izadora Zubek, from the French Anti-corruption Agency (Agence Française Anticorruption, AFA), who provided invaluable comments and inputs to strengthen the analysis and the recommendations. Editorial and administrative assistance was provided by Meral Gedik. The Portuguese translation of the report was prepared by Pedro Milliet and edited in depth by Camila Gomes and Carolina Souto Carballido.
The OECD thanks the Minister of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Union (Controladoria-Geral da União, CGU), Wagner de Campos Rosário, as well as his staff, in particular the Secretariat of Transparency and Corruption Prevention (Secretaria de Transparência e Prevenção da Corrupção, STPC), Claudia Taya and Roberto Cesar de Oliveira Viegas, the Directorate for Integrity Promotion (Diretoria de Promoção da Integridade, DPI), Pedro Ruske Freitas and Carolina Souto Carballido, for their support in organising the virtual fact-finding and for the many fruitful discussions on preliminary findings and recommendations throughout the project.
The OECD would also like to thank the individuals and organisations who took part in the process and provided valuable information for the preparation of the report. In particular, the OECD is grateful for the feedback and information shared by the Technical secretariat of the Public Ethics Commission (Comissão de Ética Pública, CEP) and the Integrity Management Units of the following federal entities that participated in the Focus Group and bilateral interviews: National Agency for Telecommunications (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações), National Department of Transport Infrastructure (Departamento Nacional de Infraestrutura de Transportes), Ministry of Citizenship (Ministério da Cidadania), Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights (Ministério da Mulher, da Família e dos Direitos Humanos), Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento), Ministry of Education (Ministério da Educação), Federal University of Maranhão Foundation (Fundação Universidade Federal do Maranhão), Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Santa Catarina (Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina), National Film Agency (Agência Nacional do Cinema), Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis), Ministry of Infrastructure (Ministério da Infraestrutura), Ministry of Tourism (Ministério do Turismo), General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic (Secretaria-Geral da Presidência da República), National Health Foundation (Fundação Nacional de Saúde), Superintendence for the Development of the Midwest (Superintendência de Desenvolvimento do Centro-Oeste), Ministry of Economy (Ministério da Economia) and Office of the Comptroller General of the Union (Controladoria-Geral da União). Finally, the OECD thanks the 30 Integrity Management Units that provided answers to the questionnaire sent out in 2020.