The Ministry of Planning is working on a review of institutions because the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) indicated that the country has a very fragmented public sector.
For them, the ministry resorted to the closure of inactive organs and the analysis of institutions attached to the ministries that have independent operations.
We began analyzing which public institutions have to be reformed in their institutional design, through transformations or mergers by legal means, and which have to improve their processes, management mechanisms, coordination and accountability or strategic planning instruments, monitoring and evaluation,”
explained Minister Pilar Garrido.
The ultimate goal is that the institutions meet the needs and expectations of citizens, so Mideplan is reviewing the status of more than 70 decentralized institutions attached to the Central Government.
Moreover, with the approval of Law 9668, on February 14th, six state institutions that were inactive and that did not have personnel, budget or fulfill any substantive function for the country were eliminated.
The new law repealed the laws creating the Poultry Development Board, the Porcine Development Board, the Saline Development Board, the Cabuya National Board and the Tía Tere House. In addition, the articles of Law 7623 that gave life to the National Commission for the Defense of Language was also eliminated.