Observatório Social comes to Rio de Janeiro

A civil society organization aiming to defend better conditions in public administration and firmly fighting against corruption

Present in more than 110 cities in 19 Brazilian states, Observatório Social do Brasil (OSB) arrives to Rio de Janeiro with the support of the Commercial Association of Rio de Janeiro (Associação Comercial do Rio de Janeiro - “ACRJ”), the Regional Accounting Council (CRCRJ) and Domingues e Pinho Contadores (DPC).

Observatório Social is a democratic and nonpartisan space, formed by the largest possible number of organizations representing civil society and with the objective of contributing to the public administration improvement and fighting corruption. In Rio de Janeiro, the Observatório will directly act on supervision of municipal government, monitoring the planning, procurement, deployment, and evaluation of public policies, aiming preventive actions in social control of public spending.

The initiative works on fronts such as tax education, the inclusion of micro and small companies in bidding processes and the construction of indicators from Public Management. The estimative is that the Observatório Social contribution generated more than BRL 1.5 billion savings in the last four years for coffers of municipalities where it operates.

Meritorious Councilor from Commercial Association of Rio de Janeiro, Marta Arakaki, spoke about the importance to support the initiative. "The deployment of Observatório Social of Rio de Janeiro becomes essential since our City Hall needs to expand and improve public services, and direct their purchases of goods and services to support companies established here," said Marta.

Domingues e Pinho Contadores understands the importance of initiatives for transparency in public resources management of Rio de Janeiro and is supporting Observatório Social. DPC’s CEO, Manuel Domingues e Pinho, left their comments on the importance of space to exercise citizenship. "We are supporting Observatório Social of Rio de Janeiro as we already know the work performed in other cities, which has been achieving great success in fighting corruption. We believe that the Center may be a differential to increase the transparency of Municipality of Rio de Janeiro in their actions, especially for purchase of materials and services management. Our hope is that this initiative can substantially reduce corruption in our county ", stressed Mr. Domingues.

Check out more about the Observatório Social in Rio http://osbrasil.org.br/observatorios-pelo-brasil/rio-de-janeiro-rj/.