Support to the Transparency Trust Fund

Results achieved as of December 2016 include: (1) the Fund made progress in helping strengthen country control systems where it helped in the development of the new Supreme Audit Institutions Performance Measurement Framework (SAI-PMF) developed by the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) in 2013 by helping pilot the tool in Barbados the Dominican Republic and Ecuador. Following the global piloting effort INTOSAI adopted the SAI-PMF framework in 2016 as the main tool to evaluate and help improve the performance of SAIs and their audit and oversight function; (2) the Fund also helped strengthen the efficiency of the Jamaican Supreme Audit Institution through the adoption of information and communication technology tools which has paved the way to a paperless audit process that has reduced processing times for audits by 1 to 2 weeks and increased the publication of different audit reports; (3) the Fund is also promoting open government in the Latin America and Caribbean region through its support of 255 public agencies in Chile in drafting and implementing new codes of ethics where more than 80% have already been drafted and adopted including by key agencies such as the Ministry of Finance and the Procurement Agency; (4) the Fund has also helped create a platform to increase the transparency of political campaign contributions as part Chile’s Electoral Service electronic portal; (5) it is also working to improve transparency in the land and housing sector where it contributed to the publication of “The State of Social Housing in Six Caribbean Countries” (The Bahamas Barbados Guyana Jamaica Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago) and published “A Methodological Framework for Comparative Land Governance Research in Latin America and the Caribbean” which identifies gaps in land governance in Latin America and the Caribbean and served as a basis for conducting five national case studies (Barbados Brazil Ecuador Panama and Trinidad