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The event was attended by Yesenia Donoso Herrera, lawyer and graduate in Biology, specialist in Environmental Law and Master in Urban Government. She has been working in the public sector in Bogotá for about 15 years, where she has been linked to control bodies and government structures. She is currently the Legal Director at the Bogotá District Environment Secretariat. The presentation was given by Professor Diego Peña Porras.
The lawyer referred to political, fiscal and disciplinary controls, explained what each consists of and its importance when it comes to exercising urban government. “Control is fundamental because it studies the government of cities. That is why it is important to understand the functioning of the State, especially how control and urban government are exercised”.
The official spoke with the students about the importance of exercising control both from the institutional framework and from the citizenry. However, she explained the difficulties that arise in practice, because although the norm is universal and the process is defined, the contexts are different and it is the people who carry out each procedure.
Donoso also spoke about the infinity of processes that are underway and the investigations that the control agencies must open because this is how the norm stipulates and evidence that many of them do not end in investigations. “The decision to initiate a process is not only the autonomy of the entity in charge. There are cases, either by citizen petitions or by other instances, in which officials must open these processes, because if they fail to do so, the rule allows disciplinary proceedings to be opened.”
In a similar sense, the expert responded to the concerns of the attendees related to the articulation between political, technical, and administrative interests in the exercise of control over the government and its impact on management results. Given the evidence of the presence of political agendas in control activities and their institutional design in our country, the expert argued that it is possible to find cases in which control activities have positive effects in favor of better government performance, but Likewise, circumstances appear in which the effect is just the opposite.
The meeting concluded with a reflection on the need to expand the discussion scenarios of these matters with a view to contributing to a cultural change in the way of conceiving and applying the different control systems to the government of our cities.
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