The report was prepared by the OECD Public Sector Integrity Division of the Directorate for Public Governance under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director for Public Governance and Julio Bacio Terracino, Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division. The report was co-ordinated and drafted by Frédéric Boehm and Camila Gomes Gomes. Gavin Ugale provided invaluable guidance, support and input to the analysis and the recommendations. Estela Souto provided support with preliminary background research and the design of the questionnaire. Editorial and administrative assistance was provided by Meral Gedik.
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), Roberto Cesar de Oliveira Viegas and Claudia Taya, as well as the Directorate for Integrity Promotion (Diretoria de Promoção da Integridade, DPI), Pedro Ruske Freitas, Carolina Souto Carballido and Allison Roberto Mazzuchelli Rodrigues 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), the Federal Ombudsman Office of the Union (Ouvidoria-Geral da União), CGU’s Federal Secretariat of Internal Control (Secretaria Federal de Controle Interno) 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.