OECD - OECD Integrity Review of Argentina

This Review was prepared by the Public Sector Integrity Division of the Directorate for Public Governance under the leadership of Janos Bertk and Julio Bacio Terracino. The Review was drafted by Frdric Boehm (also project co-ordinator), Jennifer Eddie, Levke Jessen-Thiesen, Carissa Munro, Giulio Nessi, Felicitas Neuhaus and Mariana Prats. The report greatly benefitted from the insights and comments of Sarah Dix, Alessandro Bellantoni, Daniel Gerson, David Goessmann, Israel Maranon de Pablo, Natalia Nolan Flecha, Jacob Arturo Rivera Prez, Barbara Ubaldi and Ivan Stola. The authors also wish to thank Nathan Anderson ( U.S. Mission to the OECD ), Carla Dietmair, Karen Hussmann, Renzo Lavin, Diego Miranda, Juanita Olaya, Miguel Peailillo and Mara Soldedad Urri for their helpful comments. Editorial and administrative assistance was provided by Nadjad Bacar, Edwina Collins, Thibaut Gigou, Laura McDonald, Fadila Oumaouche, Meral Gedik, Ricardo Sanchez Torres and Alpha Zambou. The Spanish translation of the Review was prepared by Mara Paula Minetti and edited by Cristina Perez Claeys and Mariana Prats (OECD).

The OECD expresses its gratitude to the Argentinian Government as well as all the institutions and organisations taking part in the Review process and workshop for their cooperation, in particular the Ministry of Justices Anti-corruption Office (Oficina Anticorrupcin), the Executive Office of the Cabinet of Ministers Secretariat for Institutional Strengthening (Secretaria de Fortalecimiento Institucional) and Secretariat of Modernisation (Secretaria de Gobierno de Modernizacin), the Office of the Comptroller General (Sindicatura General de la Nacin), the Ministry of Interiors Secretariat for Political Affairs (Secretara de Asuntos Polticos), the Ministry of Education, the Auditor General (Auditora General de la Nacin), the National Electoral Chamber (Cmara Nacional Electoral), the Treasury Attorney General Office (Procuracin del Tesoro de la Nacin), and the Prosecutor Office for Administrative Investigations (Procuradura de Investigaciones Administrativas). Finally, the Anticorruption Office and the Embassy of Argentina in Paris deserve special mention for co-ordinating the Review activities, including the fact-finding mission held in October 2017 and November 2018, and the workshop organised in April 2018.

This review also benefited from invaluable input provided by OECD peers, in particular Liliana Caballero, Administrative Department of Civil Service, Colombia, and Nicoletta Parisi, Anticorruption Agency, Italy, who took part in the workshop held in Buenos Aires on 10-11 April 2018. The OECD would also like to thank all workshop participants for their feedback to the draft and for their inputs.

The review was approved by the OECD Working Party of Senior Public Integrity Officials (SPIO) on 31 August 2018 and declassified by the Public Governance Committee on 3 October 2018.