Transparency of Health and Education Infrastructure (GT0123)

Summary description of the commitment:

This commitment is related to the implementation of CoST mechanisms to strengthen transparency and accountability processes in health and education infrastructure, to ensure broad disclosure and citizen participation in infrastructure contracting, making them more competitive and fairer, ensuring the achievement of the proposed results.

What is the problem that the compromise seeks to address?

Some health and education infrastructure projects do not comply with the “Open Data Infrastructure International Standard” - OC4IDS -, which limits accountability, transparency, and social auditing

What are the causes of the problem?

The format of the available data on health and education infrastructure is not standardized, causing non-compliance with current regulations related to the “International Standard for Open Data on Infrastructure” - OC4IDS -. Likewise, it is not known if there are administrative guidelines and mechanisms for compliance with the standards.

What has been done so far to solve the problem?

A specific milestone was included in the 5th National Open Government Action Plan 2021-2023 to publicize the “International Open Data Infrastructure Standard” - OC4IDS - aimed at officials and representatives of civil society organizations and citizens in general, which concluded in June 2023.
What is the proposed solution? TThe implementation of the “Open Data International Infrastructure Standard” - OC4IDS - to each of the health and education projects to be executed.

Which outcomes do we want to achieve with the implementation of this commitment?

The application of the “International Standard for Open Data in Infrastructure” - OC4IDS - in infrastructure projects in health and education, will allow to know how the processes are implemented.

How will transparency be promoted within the commitment?

Through the application of the “Open Data International Standard for Infrastructure” - OC4IDS - in health and education infrastructure projects.

How will the commitment help promote accountability?

By making the pre-investment, execution and liquidation processes of public health and education infrastructure projects transparent.

How will the commitment enhance citizen participation in defining, implementing, and monitoring solutions?

Through the opening of multisectoral spaces within the Multi-sector Technical Roundtable to be organized and the application of methodologies contemplated by the user committees.

Commitment Planning (Milestones | Expected Results | Start Date | End Date):

Milestone 1: The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance -MSPASbroadens the participation of governmental and civil society actors to continue and strengthen its accountability processes and transparency mechanisms. | Institutions of the Executive Branch assume commitments on accountability in infrastructure related to MSPAS. | June 2023 | January 2024-June 2025
Milestone 2: The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance -MSPAScontinues the development of the open data format for its official website with emphasis on infrastructure that generates expansion, construction, improvement and/or replacement processes. | The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance -MSPAS- provides standardized manageable and integrated data to the population, allowing immediate access to the information generated on infrastructure. | July 2023 | June 2025
Milestone 3: The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance -MSPAScontinues the process of integrating the technical roundtable for the analysis of the recommendations made by the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative -Cost- on the processes related to health infrastructure. This includes the analysis of the guidelines for the reception of works and the presentation of a report on the actions taken in accordance with the recommendations. | The Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance -MSPAS- publishes disaggregated, detailed, and updated data and information on infrastructure on its website, without an application from the interested population. This to comply with the recommendations made by the Multisectoral Technical Roundtable. Also, it complies the recommendations of the infrastructure reports made by CoST. | July 2023 | June 2025
Milestone 4 The Ministry of Education -MINEDUC- Integrates a technical committee that promotes accountability processes in Educational Infrastructure. This allows to address proposals and recommendations made by the Civil Society. | Accountability mechanism on education infrastructure, designed, presented, and socialized. | July 2023 | June 2025