With the purpose of following up on adverse situations detected by the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) regarding public investment projects in regions, Proética has designed the tool “Eye on the work: Citizen monitoring of public works”; the same one that today monitors four works in the country for more than S/700 million.
The tool, designed within the framework of the USAID Transparent Public Investment Project, is in line with compliance with integrity standard No. 14 designed by the project, which states that “the recommendations and adverse situations identified by the Comptroller or its control bodies, during the contracting stages, have been implemented in a timely manner”.
Carlos Arroyo, director of the Citizen Audits and Open Government Program of Proethics, stressed that the platform seeks to make visible and disseminate in a didactic way for citizens the adverse situations detected by the Comptroller on public works.
“Once adverse situations are identified, an Integrity Network, which is a multi-stakeholder group of public and civil society organizations, urges regional governments to resolve or respond to them and monitors which ones have already been lifted,” he explained.
How does it work?
The initiative uses a citizen traffic light, which allows alerting if the public entity is complying with resolving the adverse situations identified by the concurrent control and that pose a risk for the satisfactory management of the public investment project. The red color warns that the adverse situation has not been dealt with, the yellow color indicates that it is in the process of being attended to, while the green color registers that it has already been cleared.
To date, “Ojo en la obra” has been monitoring two infrastructure projects in the Loreto region and another two in the Cusco region; the same ones that total more than S/700 million in public investment.
“That is why it is important to monitor the adverse situations indicated by the Comptroller’s Office, so that the entities responsible for the execution of the work overcome them in a timely manner,” adds Arroyo.
The projects analyzed in the Loreto region are “Construction and equipping of the new Iquitos César Garayar García Hospital” and “Improvement of the Empalme Lo – 103 Neighborhood Road, up to the Santo Tomás Town Center and access to the Santa Clara community.” Meanwhile, in the Cusco region, the projects under monitoring are “Improvement of the Río Blanco – Mollepata Highway” and “Integral Improvement of the Expressway of the city of Cusco”.
Learn more about the project and the works in the following web portal: https://www.proetica.org.pe/ojo-en-la-obra-monitoreo-ciudadano-de-obras-publicas/.
