Good Governance

Good Governance

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Good governance: Streamlining and securing the expenditure process

The General Mutual Fund for Civil Service Employees (Mutuelle générale du personnel des administrations publiques – MGPAP) is keen to secure the sustainability of the financial system and to ensure that it is managed in a modern and efficient way, and has therefore embarked on an ambitious project to reform the expenditure process with the aim of guaranteeing maximum transparency, rationality and good governance.

Establishing a national quality management unit (Unidad de Gestión de la Calidad Nacional)

Changes were made based on quality standards to protect insured persons against ill health and ensure that their financial benefits are paid. This required the proper and transparent administration of resources, avoiding duplication of work, to ensure that the institution’s limited resources were used wisely.

Shared software and collaborative work

Over the past few years, the Social Insurance Bank (Banco de Previsión Social – BPS) has been promoting and exploring the possibility of using public software rather than creating a new system or issuing a call for tenders to acquire one, with the aim of making optimum use of government resources and to avoid “reinventing the wheel”. The term “public software” is used to describe any piece of software that has been developed using government resources and that should therefore be available for the different government organizations to share.

Institutional training policies based on a development programme: Mechanisms for innovation and continuous improvement

This good practice presents the training programmes implemented by the Uruguayan social security institute, which have been deemed a substantial qualitative step forward. The strategic plan for 2011–2015 included in its lines of action “the development of modern human resource management policies, honing staff members’ skills and improving the working environment and occupational health in the organization”.