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, Acting Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division. The report was co-ordinated and drafted by Frédéric Boehm and Alice Berggrun, with support and inputs from Laura Uribe. Gavin Ugale, Arturo Rivera Pérez, Miguel Peñailillo, and José Oyola contributed various sections and provided comments. Editorial and administrative support was provided by Meral Gedik, Andrea Uhrhammer, Laura Völker, Charles Victor and Camila Saffirio. The Spanish translation of the report was prepared by Thomas Shah and edited in-depth by the OECD team.
The OECD thanks the Comptroller General of the Republic of Colombia, Luis Felipe Córdoba, and Julián Ruiz, Vice-comptroller General, for their leadership and Paula López for coordinating the project and for all the support provided. The OECD is grateful to all the public officials interviewed at the CGR during this project; in particular, for the discussions with the Directorate of Information, Analysis and Immediate Reaction (DIARI). Finally, the OECD expresses its gratitude to the Government of Colombia, the Secretary of Transparency of the Vice Presidency of the Republic, the Inspector General’s Office (PGN) and the Administrative Department of Public Function (DAFP) for their valuable contributions. Special thanks go to the heads of internal control of the national and territorial entities who participated in the two focus groups organized with the help of the DAFP in the framework of this project.
In addition, the report benefited from the reflections and comments of Ricardo Rodríguez Yee, former Vice Comptroller General, Sara Pereira, Ismael Contreras, Luis Fernando Velásquez (Corporación Acción Ciudadana Colombia), Manuel Alberto Restrepo Medina (Universidad del Rosario) and Andrés Hernández (Transparencia por Colombia). Likewise, it had valuable contributions from the IDB Country Office for Colombia, in particular from Francesco de Simone and Juan Carlos Ospina.