The OECD Secretariat wishes to express its gratitude and acknowledge all the institutions and individuals that have contributed to this Open Government Review. This Review was carried out in a fully virtual setting, due to COVID-19-related restrictions. The OECD team would like to thank all involved stakeholders for their flexibility in making themselves available for online interviews and substantive discussions of the results of this work.
In particular, the OECD would like to thank the team of the Directorate for Transparency and Social Control in the Federal Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) for their dedication and commitment throughout the process, including mobilising all relevant stakeholders. The leadership of Minister Wagner de Campos Rosário, and Roberto César de Oliveira Viégas, Secretary for Transparency and Prevention of Corruption, were essential for this Review. Special thanks go to Breno Cerqueira Alves (Director of Transparency and Social Control), Rogerio Vieiria dos Reis (General Co-ordinator of Open Government and Transparency) and to Priscilla Haueisen and Tamara Figueiroa for their commitment and continuous support. The OECD would also like to thank their predecessors, especially Otavio Castro Neves and Marcelo Vidal, for their early involvement and valuable contribution to this Review.
The OECD wishes to extend its gratitude to all institutions from the Brazilian Federal administration and non-governmental stakeholders from academia, civil society organisations, and representatives of the private sector that provided inputs and support throughout the project. The OECD would like to thank the respondents to the different questionnaires that provided evidence for this review. 33 Federal public institutions submitted their answers, as well as 14 subnational governments, and 5 institutions from the other branches of power. The Review team would especially like to highlight the contribution from non-governmental stakeholders that participated in the public consultation on civic space, answered the OECD questionnaire and participated in the interviews. Overall, the OECD organized more than 40 hours of in-depth interviews, which were instrumental in further improving the OECD’s understanding of the Brazilian context.
This Review would not have been possible without the important contribution of the Peer Reviewers, who shared their extensive country-based knowledge and experience during the process, namely:
Mr. Armando Navarro, Coordinator of Open Government and the Anti-corruption Observatory, Secretariat for Transparency, Government of Colombia.
Ms. Carolina Cornejo, Director for Open Government, Under-secretariat for Open Government and Digital Country, Government of Argentina.
This Review was prepared by the Public Governance Directorate (GOV) of the OECD led by Director Elsa Pilichowski. The report was drafted under the strategic direction of Alessandro Bellantoni, Head of the Open Government and Civic Space Unit in GOV. The review process was led by David Goessmann, with the support of Mauricio Mejia. A number of authors drafted the report. Mauricio Mejia wrote Chapter 1 on the context of open government and Chapter 5 on citizen and stakeholder participation. David Goessmann drafted Chapter 2 and 3 on the integrated open government agenda and provided strategical comments and feedback on all chapters. Cibele Cesca and Claire McEvoy wrote Chapter 4 on civic space. Under the supervision of Emma Cantera, Carla Musi authored Chapter 6 on Transparency and Marie Whelan wrote Chapter 7 on accountability. Marianne Barbieri wrote Chapter 9 on open government data under the guidance of Arturo Rivera. Benedict Stefani co-ordinated the data collection efforts for this Review, and drafted sections for Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5. Joshua Yeremiyew provided administrative support throughout the Review and prepared the document for publication. The OECD team would also like to thank the academics that provided substantive contributions to the Review, namely Gregory Michener (Associate Professor - Getulio Vargas Foundation) and Thamy Pogrebinschi (Senior Researcher - WZB Berlin Social Science Center). In addition, the Review team would like to thank those OECD colleagues who provided comments: Charles Baubion, Frederic Boehm, Ieva Cesnulaityte, Claudia Chwalisz, Pietro Gagliardi, Fabio Gehrke, Johannes Klein, Paulina Lopez Ramos, Craig Matasick, Camila Saffirio, Gavin Ugale, and Andrea Uhrhammer.