Government for Informed Citizens SabóIa

Court of Accounts of the Municipalities of the State of Ceará - CAM CAM – CITIZEN COMMITMENT PROJECTS 2007 - 2009 Fortaleza, May 19, 2009 Councilman Ernesto Sabóia President of the Court of Accounts of the Municipalities of the State of Ceará

CEARÁ IN THE WORLD

CEARÁ REGION: NORTHEAST AREA: 57,461.9 sq. mi. POPULATION: 8,217,085 (2006) Share of National GDP: 1.9% (2004) NO. OF MUNICIP. : 184 CAPITAL – FORTALEZA POPULATION: 2,416,920 (2006).

An agency of the state public system
Created in 1954.
A member of the External Control System, which is composed of the 34 Courts of Account in Brazil, including the Federal Court of Accounts
CAM – CITIZEN COMMITMENT

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE C.A.M.:
Assess management accounts, including those of city councils and others responsible for money, goods, and public assets of branches of the municipal government.
Carry out inspections and accounting, financial, budgetary, operational, and asset audits of legislative and executive units of municipal governments, and of other entities instituted and maintained by public (local) funds. .

MISSION “ Contribute to excellence in public administration through direction and audit, for the purpose of promoting the development of the municipalities of Ceará” CAM – CITIZEN COMMITMENT

Goal: Take on a Citizenship Pact between the CAM and civil society through:
User-friendly availability of information
Training of civil society
Agility, without losing quality of assessment or judgment of the accounts of municipal agencies
Encouragement of the development of a Citizens Network
A virtual space to receive suggestions, criticisms, and denunciations
Through a social network, civil society will play an auxiliary role in the oversight of public expenditures—social control of public accounts

PREPARATION
SOCIAL CONTROL
AUDITS

PREPARATION
Adjustment of the management model of the CAM
President’s visit to the 184 municipalities
Training of public servants and citizens
Information and services on the website

SOCIAL CONTROL
Develop a network of citizen-agents
Training of 30,000 people (goal) in partnership with the Demócrito Rocha Foundation
Structuring of a social network (2,000 agents)
Transparency portal
2. Citizens’ Circle
3. The CAM and the academic community

INSPECTIONS, 2009
All of Ceará state (184) in 9 months
Communication by local radio (in partnership with the Cearense Association of Television and Radio)
Telephone and e-mail for contact with society
Little contact with on-site inspectors (culture)

PARTICIPATION OF SOCIETY (Results):
Talk with the President: 2008: 38.05 % more than in 2007; 2009 (projection): 94.76 % more than in 2007
Enrollment in distance-learning courses: 30,500
Telephone calls made for inspection, 2009: 61 (first month)
E-mails answered by students in courses ( SPAM)
Creation of a community (ORKUT)

Government for Informed Citizens SabóIa

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