In the context of the agreement signed on May 28 between Vice Governor Gustavo Menna, president of the Legislature; and the head of the Anti-Corruption Office, Diego Carmona, with the aim of improving public management and enabling the construction of a democratic, decentralized State at the service of the citizen, the oversight body organized this training, which will take place in the auditorium from the house of laws.
SPEAKERS
Among its speakers will be Dr. Ivana Novillo, director of Process Control, Integrity and Transparency of the Ministry of the Interior of the Nation; Dr. Susana Vega, former Deputy Attorney General of the National Treasury, professor and specialist in Administrative Law, advisor and consultant in infrastructure contracting and academic secretary of the Master’s Degree in Administrative Law at the UBA; Dr. Nora Luzi, coordinator of the Governance Area of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP); the Mgtr. Roxana Mazzola, professor at FLACSO, former consultant for UNDESA at its New York headquarters at the UN and former consultant for ECLAC and the ILO; and Dr. Roberto De Michele, prestigious international advisor on anti-corruption issues and former head of the Institutional Capacity Division of the IDB.
There will also be panels made up of representatives from the Legislative Branch, the Executive Branch, the Judicial Branch, the State Attorney’s Office, the Court of Auditors and the Ombudsman’s Office.
TOOLS
Regarding these sessions, which were declared of legislative interest by the Provincial Legislature, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Dr. Diego Carmona, said: “With these training sessions, on the one hand, we intend to give rise to debate because we believe that we should move towards a new Law on State Contracts, which dates back 25 years. And, on the other hand, take advantage of the opportunity to provide tools to many of the actors in the Public Administration.”
The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor maintained that “from the school management upwards they manage public funds. For example, a school director is a person who trained to be a teacher and as a result of advancing in her career she became a director, a supervisor, or became the general director of purchasing at the Ministry, but she was a teacher, “I was trained to be a teacher.”
«The training is also intended for Police officers for the same reason. We train a police officer to become a police officer, to be public security. When he becomes head of the Police Station he already manages public resources and, as he rises in rank, he manages more and more public funds. We train these officials to be public security, not to manage funds. Then the State falls to them with everything if something happens in the procedure. So the State has to give tools to those segments so that they know what a procedure is like,” Carmona added.
JOURNALISTS PRESENT
During the development of these Conferences there will be a panel made up of journalists from the province and the country, specialized in the topic of Transparency and Public Policies, where the role played by the press and the media in the fight against corruption will be explained.
«We also wanted to open a panel for the media to discuss the issues of the media, communication and transparency of the State. I think it is also important to have that debate about how we, as public officials, have the obligation to be transparent and communicate, and how the media administer and manage that information. I think it is a very important interaction. And I am very happy that journalists from local media and also journalists from national media participate,” said Carmona.
