A NEW PARADIGM: TRANPARENCY AND CONTROL OF VOLUNTARY TRANFERS IN BRAZIL

Abstract

Decree number 6170/2007 regulated agreements, transfer agreements and terms of decentralized execution signed by Federal Public Administration’s organs and entities with organs or, public or private nonprofit entities for the implementation of programs, projects and activities involving transfer of resources and decentralization of credits arising from the Union's Fiscal and Social Security Budget; and created the Covenants Management System Transfers and Contracts (SICONV), open to the public, through the Portal of Agreements. SICONV inaugurated a new era in public management, as renewed relationship between the Federal Government and its organs, and public and private entities signing agreements, transfer agreements and terms of partnership with Union’s resources. This initiative automated transfers’ processes, since all procedures are performed and recorded in this system. SICONV covers the entire life cycle of a voluntary transfer operations from the provision of resources to accountability, and interoperates with the main structuring systems of the Federal Government. Thus, SICONV established itself in the Public Administration as a major transformation system that enabled and consolidated changes in many patterns and concepts - currently already established - of how voluntary transfers were executed.