Lima, September 26, 2008.  Representatives of the Offices of the Controller General and other supervisory bodies of the Andean Community Member Countries today reconfirmed their political will to move toward the implementation of the Andean Plan to Fight Corruption, approved through Decision 668.

In the course of a meeting held via videoconferencing, representatives of Andean supervisory bodies addressed, within the framework of the stipulations of the cited Andean Community Decision, issues concerning national experiences in fighting corruption. 

The Controller General of the Republic of Peru, Doctor Genaro Matute, presented the "Experience of Peru’s Office of the Controller General in Strengthening Supervision in order to Prevent and Fight Corruption.”  Similar presentations were made by the Deputy Controller of Bolivia, Edwin Beyer; the Adviser to Colombia’s Controller, Juan Miguel Durán, and Eduardo Muñoz, from Ecuador’s Office of the Controller.

The participants agreed to share information about supervisory programs, experiences and action underway in the countries, such as, for example, the “Play Clean” program Peru is carrying out at the school level and among professional associations, supervisory control prior to public borrowing, citizen oversight groups, decentralization of the Office of the Controller in the areas of the environment and of cultural heritage, and complaint procedures, etc.    

They also agreed to prepare comparative law studies about subjects like the “Sworn Declarations of Net Worth submitted by Civil Servants” in order to move toward the establishment of a follow-up and valuation system at the Andean level for new forms of corruption incorporated into the problem in modern times, such as, for example, not-yet-classified incidences of nepotism.   

They further agreed to step up the use of training schools of the Offices of the Controller in order to offer distance courses on subjects of common interest for which experiences are already being accumulated. 

In concluding, the participants gave thought to the subject of “who controls the controllers” and decided that it would be important to continue exchanging ideas about the possibility of establishing an evaluation system of their peers at the Andean level.