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Supreme audit institutions play a key role in promoting accountability, integrity, transparency and in ensuring the quality of public spending for the benefit of citizens. In recent years, the Office of the Comptroller General of Accounts of the Republic of Guatemala has developed several programs that aim to promote these values in the national education system.
The “Sowing seeds of transparency” program
In accordance with the Inter-institutional Cooperation Agreement between the Comptroller General of Accounts and the Ministry of Education, on October 29th, 2020, the “Sowing Seeds of Transparency” program was implemented with the objective of strengthening the education of a Culture of Ethics in the public schools of Guatemala, considering the teachers as a fundamental pillar in the teaching-learning processes.
An Orientation Manual of Curricular Development, “Sowing Seeds of Transparency” was designed with the purpose of promoting the education of students in topics related to principles, values, morals, ethics, transparency, probity and fight against corruption. An Implementation Guidance on this Orientation Manual was designed to support its application. Directors, supervisors and teachers in the country have been trained on this Orientation Manual, with the number of trainees reaching 31,156 people in 2021. In 2022, different training activities have been developed, in which 23,842 people have participated to date. This year, the first cohort of the training course “Strategies and Didactic Methodology Sowing Seeds of Transparency” graduated. This course was developed for teachers, directors and supervisors.
The “Young people for transparency” program
In coordination with the Ministry of Education, the “Young People for Transparency Program” was developed. It is aimed at students and teachers in public schools at the elementary and middle school levels, with the purpose of raising the interest of students in knowing and applying the values of ethics, probity and transparency in their daily life. This program was developed through a mobile application, in which 4,187 students participated in 2021. 2,350 students enrolled in 2022.
The University youth program for good governance, probity and transparency
The “University Youth Program for Good Governance, Probity and Transparency” aims to foster a culture of ethics, probity, transparency and accountability among university youth, thus preventing corruption, promoting active and responsible citizen participation for good governance in institutions. The training course “Public Ethics and Transparency for Good Governance” was developed. 237 students participated in 2021 and 410 students in 2022.
By Dr. Edwin Humberto Salazar Jerez, Comptroller General of Accounts of the Republic of Guatemala