The report was prepared by the Public Sector Integrity Division of the OECD Directorate for Public Governance, under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, OECD Director of the Public Governance Directorate, and Julio Bacio Terracino, Head of the Public Sector Integrity Division. It was co-ordinated and drafted by Laura Córdoba Reyes and benefited from the insights and comments of Frédéric Boehm, both from the Public Sector Integrity Division. The report was prepared for publication by Meral Gedik. Administrative support was provided by Aman Johal, Charles Victor, Neringa Gudziunaite and Samantha Sánchez.
We are grateful for the technical and financial support of the German Technical Cooperation, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), through the Programme “Ecuador SinCero – Corruption Prevention, Transparency and Citizen Participation”, led by Fiorella Mayaute. In particular, the OECD thanks Jessica Leguia, Óscar Uquillas and Camila Ponce, members of the technical team at Ecuador SinCero, for their support and contributions to the report.
The OECD expresses its gratitude to the Government of Ecuador for their co-operation, as well as to the numerous public institutions involved in the development of this report. In particular, the Secretariat of Anti-Corruption Public Policy (Secretaría de Política Pública Anticorrupción), the General Secretariat of Public Administration and Cabinet (Secretaría General de la Administración Pública y Gabinete), the Ministry of Education (Ministerio de Educación), the National Public Procurement Service (Servicio Nacional de Contratación Pública), the Superintendence of Control of Market Power (Superintendencia de Control del Poder de Mercado), the Financial Analysis Unit (Unidad de Análisis Financiero), the National Comptroller’s Office (Contraloría General del Estado), the Ombudsman Office (Defensoría del Pueblo), the Technical Secretariat of the Coordination Committee of the Transparency and Social Control Function (Comité de Coordinación de la Función de Transparencia y Control Social), the Consortium of Autonomous Provincial Governments of Ecuador (Consorcio de Gobiernos Autónomos Provinciales del Ecuador) and the Association of Ecuadorian Municipalities (Asociación de Municipalidades Ecuatorianas).
The OECD is also grateful to the civil society, private sector and academic organisations that contributed valuable insights and perspectives for the report, in particular the Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrollo, Grupo FARO, Fundación Grupo Esquel, Fundación Lucha contra la Corrupción, the Integrity and Anti-Corruption Commission (Comisión de Integridad y Anticorrupción) of the International Chamber of Commerce, Ecuador Chapter, the Comité Empresarial Ecuatoriano, the World Compliance Association, the Asociación Ecuatoriana de Distribuidores e Importadores de Productos Médicos, and the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales. Finally, the Secretariat of Anti-Corruption Public Policy - in particular Vanessa Gutiérrez, Mónica Naveda and Diego Corral - deserves special mention for co-ordinating the activities of the fact-finding mission in March 2023 and the virtual workshops organised in April 2023 where the preliminary recommendations were presented and discussed with stakeholders, and for their valuable comments to the report.