This report was drafted by the OECD’s Directorate for Public Governance under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski and benefited from the excellent co-operation of the government of Peru, and in particular the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Camila Vammalle (Senior Public Policy Analyst, Public Management and Budgeting Division, Directorate for Public Governance) led and co-ordinated the report, under the supervision of Jón Blöndal (Head of Division, Public Management and Budgeting Division, Directorate for Public Governance) and Andrew Blazey (Deputy Head of Division, Public Management and Budgeting Division, Directorate for Public Governance). Camila Vammalle and Luisa Cajamarca (consultant) wrote Chapter 1. Camila Vammalle also wrote Chapter 2. Almudena Fernandez (consultant) prepared Chapter 3. Felicitas Neuhaus, with the support of Natalia Nolán Flecha (both from the Public Management and Budgeting Division of the Directorate for Public Governance), prepared Chapter 4. Ana María Ruiz Rivadeneira (Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division, Directorate for Public Governance) and Luisa Cajamarca wrote Chapter 5. Jennifer Allain provided editorial support. The report was prepared for publication by Meral Gedik with administrative support from Lyora Raab, Deborah Merran and Aleksandra Bogusz (Public Management and Budgeting Division, Directorate for Public Governance).
This report benefited from comments and suggestions from Jón Blöndal, Andrew Blazey, Almudena Fernandez, Peter Welsh, Brian Finn, Alfrun Triyggvadottir and Axel Mathot (all from the Public Management and Budgeting Division, Directorate for Public Governance); and Isabelle Chatry (Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD).
The OECD would like to thank the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland for funding this project; Andrew Lawson and Gonzalo Alvarez de Toledo (both Fiscus) and Mario Bazán (Helvetas) for their support and help in co-ordinating this study; and the Swiss Embassy in Peru for their confidence. Furthermore, the OECD team is grateful to the Directors in place during the development of the study: General Directorate of Public Budget (Lisseth Ramsden Ramos); General Directorate of Public Treasury (Betty Sotelo Bazán); General Directorate of Fiscal Management of Human Resources (Adriana Mindreau Zelasco); and Director of the General Directorate of Multiannual Investment Programming (Daniel Leiva Calderón), as well as their respective teams and all the public servants from the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru who were interviewed, read and commented on the different versions of this report. The OECD would particularly like to thank David Vera Tudela Traverso (Senior Consultant in the Reform Studies and Co-ordination Unit) for his excellent support and co-ordination of the project with the authorities in Peru, and Sheilah Miranda Leo (Technical Secretary of the Public Sector Financial Management Co‑ordination Committee in place during the implementation of this study) for her continuous support and very pertinent comments. The authors would also like to thank the public servants of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers; sectoral ministries of education, health and transport; the officials and representatives of the subnational governments interviewed; the representatives of the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration (SUNAT); the National Authority of the Civil Service (SERVIR); the Comptroller General of the Republic; the Fiscal Council; and the public sector workers’ unions; as well as experts and former officials who participated in the interviews.