Development of an Information System on the Maria Da Penha Law (Law No. 11,340/2006) (BR0081)
Overview
At-a-Glance
Action Plan: Brazil Second Action Plan
Action Plan Cycle: 2013
Status: Inactive
Institutions
Lead Institution: Secretariat for Women’s Policies
Support Institution(s): NA
Policy Areas
Anti-Corruption, Gender, Marginalized Communities, Records ManagementIRM Review
IRM Report: Brazil End-of-Term Report 2013-2016, Brazil Progress Report 2013-2014
Starred: No
Early Results: Marginal
Design i
Verifiable: Yes
Relevant to OGP Values: Public Accountability , Technology
Implementation i
Description
to develop a system for collecting and storing standardized information on the public policies related to the Maria da Penha Law.
IRM End of Term Status Summary
Commitment 5.2. Development of an Information System on the Maria da Penha Law (Law No. 11,340/2006)
Commitment Text: To develop a system for collecting and storing standardized information on the public policies related to the Maria da Penha Law.
Responsible institution: Secretariat for Women’s Policies
Supporting institution: None
Start date: Not specified End date: 14 December 2014
Commitment aim
The Maria da Penha Law, approved in 2006, planned to create a unified information system for data on domestic and family violence against women. The commitment proposed to create the system, standardise national data, compare different government branches and states, and enable civil society to monitor the government’s policies on women.
Status
Midterm: Substantial
The Secretariat for Women’s Policies adapted the Dial 180 tool to feed into a national information system. This transformed a passive system that offered information on violence against women into an active channel to register complaints. One example was the launch of the “Women, Living without Violence” program, which used the Dial 180 system to route complaints to public security authorities while copying the public prosecutor’s office in each state. To be completed, the system needs to increase its capacity to collect and standardise information. At the midterm review, the government had begun preparing for this increased capacity by hiring additional tele-operators, expanding contracts for more phone lines to cover free calls, and restructuring the system of assistance for women who have suffered violence.
End of term: Substantial
The government held inter-ministerial meetings to prepare a draft of the national information system. Several government bodies, such as the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada, IPEA) and the Civil House, worked on defining the indicators and variables to be included in the data system. However, there was no concrete additional progress on the system since the midterm evaluation. In addition, the Secretariat for Women’s Policies, which was responsible for implementing this commitment, was integrated into the Ministry of Justice and Citizenship in 2016. According to an information request by Article 19, there is currently no agency assigned to the implementation of this commitment, which means it is not possible to identify an expected date of completion.[Note 123: Bárbara Paes, “How is Open Government Related to Violence Against Women in Brazil?” 8 March 2017, http://bit.ly/2nxM2ph.]
Did it open government?
Access to information: Marginal
Civic participation: Did not change
The commitment resulted in an important (yet partial) process for managing and disclosing data on violence against women. Although the information system promised in the commitment text was not completed by the end of the action plan, the government did improve the Dial 180 tool to collect and disclose information about violence against women. During the action plan, the government promoted the 180 dial-in system through a public awareness campaign to encourage women to dial in and provide information. In addition, the government increased the number of tele-operators from 90 to 300, and established a mechanism for incidents to be routed directly to law enforcement agencies.[Note 124: Portal Brasil, “Ligue 180 dá salto no apoio ás mulheres e bate recorde de atendimentos,” 8 March 2016, http://bit.ly/2nIlcdP.] These improvements led to a surge in usage of the system. In 2016, the service received more than a million calls (over 3,000 per day), 51% more than the previous record reached in 2015,[Note 125: Rafael Gregorio, “’180’ teve recorde de denúncias em 2016; negras são maioria entre vítimas,” Folha de São Paulo, 8 March 2017, http://bit.ly/2oO9PTt.] which was already 54% more than the number of calls received in 2014.[Note 126: Agência Brasil, “Relatos de violência sexual aumentaram 129% em 2015 no Ligue 180,” 8 March 2016, http://bit.ly/2oJPSQt.] According to government data publicised by the national press, 12% of all calls mentioned violence against women, and reports of violence alone increased 129% from 2014 to 2015,[Note 127: Ibid.] and 83% from 2015 to 2016.[Note 128: Rafael Gregorio, “’180’ teve recorde de denúncias em 2016; negras são maioria entre vítimas,” Folha de São Paulo, 8 March 2017, http://bit.ly/2oO9PTt.] Experts agree that the increase in the number of calls is a result of greater dissemination of the Dial 180 system.[Note 129: Rute Pina, “Denúncias de violência doméstica e familiar crescem 133%,” Brasil de Fato, 10 August 2016, http://bit.ly/2p6rCVd.]
These results point to greater access to both information and justice. Given that many people call to access information on rights and services,[Note 130: Portal Brasil, “Ligue 180 dá salto no apoio ás mulheres e bate recorde de atendimentos,” 8 March 2016, http://bit.ly/2nIlcdP.] there are now more people receiving this information than before. In addition, the system is innovative in so far as it provides standardised data to the public in a country where, previously, data on violence against women were not widely available. There is now strong evidence of the media’s use of the data to highlight greater levels of violence against black women,[Note 131: Rafael Gregorio, “’180’ teve recorde de denúncias em 2016; negras são maioria entre vítimas,” Folha de São Paulo, 8 March 2017, http://bit.ly/2oO9PTt.] and to inform citizens about the realities of gender violence.[Note 132: Luisa Bustamente, “Ligue 180: as mentiras e verdades do debate sobre a violência de gênero,” 9 March 2017, http://bit.ly/2oeJpMz.]
Important though they are, the activities carried out during the action plan constituted marginal improvements to an existing program. Dial 180 was created in 2005, and recorded 3.36 million calls between 2006 and 2013.[Note 133: Compromisso e Atitude, “Com ampliação do Ligue 180, serviço passará a registrar e encaminhar denúncias de violência doméstica,” 6 March 2014, http://bit.ly/2o2cY1J. ] According to Article 19, the results of the commitment are not very impactful, and the Dial 180 system “is far from being a national system, given that it is not integrated with other databases, such as health and public security databases, and it does not allow one to follow up on victim cases. In other words, there is no follow up after a call is made to see how the government responded.”[Note 134: Joara Marchezini (Project Officer on Access to Information, Article 19), e-mail correspondence with the IRM researcher.]
Carried forward?
The commitment is not part of Brazil’s third action plan. However, the IRM researcher recommends opening the data, reviewing the systematisation process, and inviting civil society organisations to map the data and help improve data gathering, quality, and quantity.
Commitments
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Subnational Good Governance
BR0100, 2018, Capacity Building
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Open Data Policy
BR0101, 2018, Access to Information
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Scientific Data Governance
BR0102, 2018, Access to Information
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Capacity-Building and Oversight on Nutrition Policy
BR0103, 2018, Capacity Building
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Transport Data
BR0104, 2018, E-Government
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Transparency and Oversight in Infrastructure Repair Processes
BR0105, 2018, Capacity Building
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Increase Participation in Legislative Process
BR0106, 2018, Capacity Building
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Urban and Rural Land Registers
BR0107, 2018, E-Government
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Climate Change Policy Evaluation
BR0108, 2018, E-Government
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Water Resource Management
BR0109, 2018, Capacity Building
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National Electronic System/ATI implementation
BR0110, 2018, Access to Information
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Open Data on the Federal Government
BR0084, 2016, Access to Information
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Transparency of Public Funds
BR0085, 2016, Capacity Building
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Access to Information Policy in the Federal Government – Promptness and Effectiveness to Information Requests
BR0086, 2016, Access to Information
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Access to Information Policy in the Federal Government – Requesters’ Personal Information Safeguard
BR0087, 2016, Access to Information
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Effectiveness of National Policy for Social Participation Mechanisms
BR0088, 2016, Capacity Building
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Digital Educational Resources
BR0089, 2016, Capacity Building
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Open Data and Information Governance in Health
BR0090, 2016, Access to Information
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Prevention to Torture and Mean, Inhuman, or Humiliating Treatments in the Penitentiary System
BR0091, 2016, Access to Information
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Innovation Spaces for Management in Public Services
BR0092, 2016, Capacity Building
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Assessment and Streamline of Public Services
BR0093, 2016, E-Government
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Open Innovation and Transparency in the Legislative
BR0094, 2016, Capacity Building
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Fostering Open Government in States and Municipalities
BR0095, 2016, Capacity Building
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Transparency and Innovation in the Judiciary
BR0096, 2016, Access to Justice
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Social Participation in Federal Government’S Planning Cycle
BR0097, 2016, E-Government
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Open Data and Active Transparency in Environment Issues
BR0098, 2016, Access to Information
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Mapping and Participatory Management for Culture
BR0099, 2016, Access to Information
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Probity Defense and Asset Recovery
BR0033, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Development of a Methodology for Social Participation on the Monitoring of the Pluriannual Plan (PPA) and on the Formulation of the Federal Public Budget
BR0034, 2013, Capacity Building
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Development of the Monitoring System for the Social Movements Demands
BR0035, 2013, Capacity Building
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Capacity-Building of Educators, Political Agents, Public Managers, Councilors for Social Policies and Community Leaderships
BR0036, 2013, Capacity Building
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Encourage States and Municipalities to Endorse the OGP Four Principles
BR0037, 2013, Capacity Building
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Implementation of the ODP.Nano
BR0038, 2013, Fiscal Openness
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Strengthening of the Office of the Comptroller General (CGU)
BR0039, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Online Accountability of Resources for Education Within the National Fund for Education Development
BR0040, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Generation of Knowledge and Capacity-Building of Managers and Public Resources Operator’S Partners and of Councilors for Social Control
BR0041, 2013, Capacity Building
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National Program for Strengthening School Councils
BR0042, 2013, Capacity Building
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Development of a Unified and Interactive Information Panel on the Implementation of the Water for All Program, Which Can Be Publicly Accessed Through the Internet
BR0043, 2013, Capacity Building
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Digital Inclusion of Health Councils
BR0044, 2013, E-Government
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Development of Tools for Increasing Transparency and Enhancing Land Governance
BR0045, 2013, E-Government
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Implementation of the Document Management Policy in the Federal Government
BR0046, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Development of the “Access to Information Library”
BR0047, 2013, Access to Information
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Disclosure of Data from the Execution of the Union Budget and from Government Purchases
BR0048, 2013, Access to Information
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Dissemination of the Public Open Data Culture to the Local Governments
BR0049, 2013, Access to Information
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Development of Support Technologies and Licensing Models for the Disclosure of Open Data
BR0050, 2013, Access to Information
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Disclosure of Information from Government Systems in an Open Data Format
BR0051, 2013, Access to Information
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Corporative Information Management in Social Security (E-Governance)
BR0052, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Improvement of Active Transparency and of the Unique Health System’ Ombudsman Unit
BR0053, 2013, Access to Justice
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Strengthening of the National Audit System of the Unique Health System (SUS)
BR0054, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Increasing Public Transparency of the Labor Relations Secretariat of the Ministry of Labor and Employment
BR0055, 2013, E-Government
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Disclosure of Recommendations to Carry Out Public Audiences to Serve as Reference for the Government
BR0056, 2013, Capacity Building
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Development of a Database of the Federal Public Administration Purchases Prices
BR0057, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Participatory Audits on the Constructions of Brazilian Host Cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup
BR0058, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Development of an Indicators Model for Transparency of Brazilian Municipalities Institutional Development
BR0059, 2013, Capacity Building
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Development of a Brazilian Portal for the Open Government Partnership (OGP)
BR0060, 2013, E-Government
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Development of Monitoring Reports on the Electronic Citizen Information System (e-SIC)
BR0061, 2013, Access to Information
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Encouragement of Social Participation
BR0062, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Formulation and Implementation of the Ministry of Defense’S Information Management Policy
BR0063, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Development of a Database of Administrative Documents Produced by Brazil’S Navy
BR0064, 2013, Public Participation
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Open Educational Data
BR0065, 2013, Access to Information
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Improvement of Data Transparency from the National Consumer Protection Information System (Sindec)
BR0066, 2013, Access to Information
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Restructuring of the Brazilian Federal Government Transparency Portal
BR0067, 2013, Access to Information
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Electronic System for Public Consultations
BR0068, 2013, E-Government
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Improvement of Health Services Through the Increased Use of the National Health Card
BR0069, 2013, Health
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Participatory Development of the Federal Ombudsman System
BR0070, 2013, Justice
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“Brazil Transparent” Program
BR0071, 2013, Access to Information
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Development of the Unique Health System Letter
BR0072, 2013, Health
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Digital Cities Project
BR0073, 2013, E-Government
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Development of the National System for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SINAPIR)
BR0074, 2013, Human Rights
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Improvement of Mechanisms for Social Participation in the Formulation of Public Policies
BR0075, 2013, Public Participation
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Brazilian Portal for Social Participation
BR0076, 2013, E-Government
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Open Data in the Ministry of Justice
BR0077, 2013, Access to Information
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Improvement of the Pro-Ethics Company Registry
BR0078, 2013, Private Sector
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Expansion of the Database of the National Debarment List (CEIS):
BR0079, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Monitoring of the National Plan for Food and Nutrition Security (PLANSAN)
BR0080, 2013, Health
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Development of an Information System on the Maria Da Penha Law (Law No. 11,340/2006)
BR0081, 2013, Anti-Corruption
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Development of Processes for Prior Consultation Under the 169 Convention of the International Labour Organization’S (ILO)
BR0082, 2013, Labor
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Redesign of the Current Protection Programs
BR0083, 2013, Access to Justice
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Capacity Building Programs
BR0001, 2011, Access to Information
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Distance Education Program
BR0002, 2011, Access to Information
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Guide for Public Officials on Access to Information
BR0003, 2011, Access to Information
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Information Services Model
BR0004, 2011, Access to Information
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Diagnostic Study on the Transparency Values of Executive Branch
BR0005, 2011, Access to Information
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Diagnostic Study on Role of Federal Ombudsman Units (FOUs)
BR0006, 2011, Access to Information
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Research Study to Identify the Demands of Society in Regard to Access to Information
BR0007, 2011, Access to Information
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Preparation of a Catalogue of Public Data and Information
BR0008, 2011, Capacity Building
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Organization of a Meeting of the Inter-Council Forum Multi-Year Plan 2012–15 (Phase 2)
BR0009, 2011, Capacity Building
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Organization of the 1st National Conference on Transparency and Social Control (1St Consocial)
BR0010, 2011, Capacity Building
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Organization of the 1st National Open Data Meeting
BR0011, 2011, Access to Information
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Organization of the National Seminar on Social Participation
BR0012, 2011, Capacity Building
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Partnership with the Digital Culture Laboratory
BR0013, 2011, Access to Information
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Partnership with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Brazil
BR0014, 2011, Access to Information
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Development of the National Open Data Infrastructure (INDA)
BR0015, 2011, Access to Information
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INDA Capacity Building Plan
BR0016, 2011, Access to Information
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INDA Awareness- Raising Activities
BR0017, 2011, Access to Information
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Launch of the Brazil Open Data Portal
BR0018, 2011, Access to Information
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Resource Transfer Agreements and Contract System (SICONV)
BR0019, 2011, Access to Information
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Aquarius Platform
BR0020, 2011, Access to Information
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Data Warehouse
BR0021, 2011, Anti-Corruption
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Restructuring the Transparency Portal
BR0022, 2011, Access to Information
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Facilitate Access to Specific Databases
BR0023, 2011, E-Government
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Interactive School Development Plan
BR0024, 2011, E-Government
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Control Panel for the Integrated Monitoring and Oversight System (Public Module)
BR0025, 2011, E-Government
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United Suppliers Registry (SICAF)
BR0026, 2011, Access to Information
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Registry of National Education Prices
BR0027, 2011, Anti-Corruption
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Contractual Management of IT Services
BR0028, 2011, Anti-Corruption
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Implementation of Pro-Ethics Company Registry
BR0029, 2011, Private Sector
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Systemic Integration of Ombudsman Units
BR0030, 2011, Access to Justice
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Continued Training for Public Ombudsman Units
BR0031, 2011, Access to Justice
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Public Services Portal
BR0032, 2011, Access to Information