The report was prepared by the Directorate of Public Governance under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director for Public Governance (GOV), and Julio Bacio Terracino, Head of GOV’s Public Sector Integrity Division. The report was co-ordinated and drafted by Frédéric Boehm. Gavin Ugale, Giulio Nessi, Maria Camila Porras and Cristián Picón provided invaluable support and inputs. Editorial and administrative assistance was provided by Meral Gedik.
The OECD thanks the Comptroller General of the Republic of Chile, Jorge Andrés Bermúdez Soto, the Head of the Audit Division, Eduardo Díaz, as well as the team of the Office of the Comptroller General that has supported this project, María De Los Ángeles Donoso Rivas, Carlos Eduardo Márquez Gutiérrez, Osvaldo Cristian Rudloff Pulgar, Nicolás Alberto Vega Cohen, Ernesto García San Martín, Eduardo Díaz Araya, Nicolás Francisco Lagos Machuca, Valeria Edith Torres Godoy and Daniela Francisca Santana Silva for the many fruitful discussions, their inputs and feedback on preliminary findings and recommendations as well as for their support in organising the virtual fact-finding throughout the project. The OECD would also like to thank the individuals and organisations at national, regional and municipal level, who were interviewed and took part in the process by providing information for the elaboration of the report, in particular the Ministry of Defense’s Subsecretariat of the Armed Forces (Subsecretaria para las Fuerzas Armadas), the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism (Ministerio de Vivienda y Urbanismo), the National Kindergarten Board (Junta Nacionales de Jardines Infantiles), the Chilean Antarctic Institute (Instituto Antártico Chileno), the Regional Government of Arica y Parinacota, the Municipalities of Rio Claro, Quilicura and Vichuquen, as well as the Universities of Chile and Santiago de Chile.
The OECD further thanks the peer reviewers who read and commented on different versions of this report. Their comments and perspectives have significantly contributed to strengthening the report: Ina den Haan, Netherlands Court of Audit (Algemene Rekenkamer), Carolina Souto Carballido, Comptroller General of the Union of Brazil (Controladoria Geral da Uniao, CGU), Bernagie Steven, Belgian Court of Audit (Rekenhof), Franisco Silva, Civil Service of Chile (Servicio Civil Chile) and Sebastián Gil. Preliminary findings and recommendations were discussed with Miguel Peñailillo and at the internal OECD Behavioural Science Meetup, with special thanks to Chiara Varazzini, James Drummond, Trish Lavery and Guillermo Morales for their feedback.