STATE OF TOCANTINS - BRAZIL

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STATE OF TOCANTINS - BRAZIL
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TOCANTINS
GEOGRAPHICAL AREA 278,420.7 km2
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TOCANTINS
BRIEF HISTORY
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE

• Acceleration of growth
• Increase of population
• Systematic development of education
• Paving of the road network
• Treated drinking water
• Stimulus for agriculture and cattle raising
• Formation of a multi-racial society
• Implantation of public institutions
• Overcoming the corridor of poverty.

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Comparison of Income and Expenditures
Tocantins, Brazil 1997 to 2007
? INCOME ? EXPENDITURES
Source General Report on the State
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Population (inhabitants) Tocantins, Brazil
Source SEPLAN-TO/DPI and IBGE - Diretoria de
Pesquisas, Coordenação de População e Indicadores
Sociais
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GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT Current prices (1,000,000
R) Amounts in billions
Source IBGE/SEPLAN-TO DPI Coordenação de Estudos
e Composições PIB
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Per capita Income (1R) Tocantins, Brazil
Source IBGE/SEPLAN-TO DPI Coordenação de Estudos
and Composições PIB
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ELEMENTS OF THE SYSTEM OF CONTROL IN BRAZIL
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CONTROL SYSTEM IN BRAZIL
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
COURT OF ACCOUNTS OF THE STATE and/or CITIES
FEDERAL COURT OF ACCOUNTS
JUDICIAL BRANCH
STATE PROSECUTORS OFFICE
FEDERAL GENERAL COMPTROLLERS OFFICE
FEDERAL PROSECUTORS OFFICE
GENERAL COMPTROLLERS OFFICES OF THE STATE
AND CITIES
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IDENTIFICATION OF PROBLEMS
Low Budgetary Resources
Lack of Societal Control
Poor use of Public monies
Lack of transparency in the use of public monies
Mistrust of government on the part of the people
Lack of technical ability on the part
of governmental agencies and politicians
Legislative Gap in terms of decision-making compe
tence
Ineficient political system for determining
qualifications and needs in filling positions
No replacement of funds from damages caused by
poor application of resources
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History of Expenditures Executed by the Court of
Accounts of the State of Tocantins, Brazil (in
millions of R)
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TOCANTINS COURT OF ACCOUNTS MANAGEMENT, 2007/2008

• Plans for a new model of management, breaking
  paradigms
• - control agency simply punitive
• - distancing from society
• - stigma of biased politicized performance
• Development of preventive measures
• - pedagogical activities training and
  development
• - participatory construction of oversight
  procedures
• - timely oversight
• - institutional integration for
  democratization of access to information
• Stimulus to the practice of citizenship

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SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF THE TOCANTINS
CofA

• Program for training public agents FORMAP
• INFOCO educational program training citizens
• Integrated system of control and public
  accounting SICAP
• Citizen agenda for participatory control
• Transparency broadcast of plenary sessions and a
  portal

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FORMAP PROGRAM FOR TRAINING PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

• Training of public employees and politicians
• Teaching faculty composed of the technical people
  from the Cof A
• Focus on the quality of public administration
• Transmission of technical knowledge to managers
  and technical teams in agencies
• Modality 2007 in person
• 2008 distance learning
  in collaboration with the private sector
• Ability to provide service is unlimited by
  democratizing access to information.

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INSTITUTE OF ACCOUNTS OCTOBER 5
INSTITUTE OF ACCOUNTS CONTINUING EDUCATION
2007 in person 2008 in person and
distance ? Low-level employees ? Agents
and politicians
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Number of Municipalities, Tocantins, Brazil
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Municipalities, Tocantins, Brasil Education
Budget - FPM
Source ww.stn.fazenda.gov.br- Transf. To States
and Cities
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INFOCO EDUCATION PROGRAM

• Social responsibility action
• Triad education, public administration, and
  family
• Focus on society
• Factor of social transformation
• Modality distance learning in private-public
  partnership
• Unlimited ability to serve

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SICAP INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF CONTROL AND PUBLIC
AUDITING

• Computerized system
• Digital certification
• Bi-monthly control in real time of accounting,
  budgetary, financial, and equity activity
• Intervention by cancellation
• Preventive actions to prevent harm to the treasury

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CITIZEN AGENDA FOR PARTICIPATORY CONTROL

• Public hearings on various topics health,
  education, infrastructure, environment, and
  others
• Control of public policy
• Assessment of governmental actions and programs
  
• Definition of priorities
• Focus planning for audits .

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TRANSPARENCY

• Live broadcast of plenary trial sessions
• Creation of a transparency portal
• Society has co-responsibility for control
• Citizen control technical control
  participatory control.

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RESULTS

• Increase in citizen interest in controlling
  public policies
• Large reduction in failure to be duly accountable
  to the court
• Satisfaction of the population with access to
  knowledge
• Tocantins citizen appreciates acts of
  transparency
• Recognition by the court of good management
  practices under its jurisdiction.

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CHALLENGES

• Financial means to provide the approprite
  physical and technical structure to
  municipalities, including the capital city, for
  continuation of training programs in the
  distance-learning mode
• Objetives
• Guaranteed accessibility
• Independent of the interest of the private
  sector
• Greater communication and interaction
• Co-responsability on the part of society
• Guarantee quality in the management of public
  funds.

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THANK YOU
Dr. Doris de Miranda Coutinho President Contacts
55 (63) 3232-5899 doriscoutinho_at_uol.com.br pres
idencia_at_tce.to.gov.br
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