The Institute of Indigenous People of Salta: Far From Fulfilling Its Goals
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">One of its main goals was for the community members to participate in the construction of houses. However, of the 230 houses they had to build only 25 were executed in that manner, the remaining was allocated to third parties. For the Audit of Salta, the "deviance" of the goals is "threatening" the fulfillment of the institutional mission.</span></p> <div> </div>
Last week we published in The Auditor.info several irregularities about the inner workings of the Provincial Institute of Indigenous Peoples of Salta (IPPIS, for its acronym in Spanish), primarily related to expense reports and providing subsidies to villagers. But there's more.
As detailed in the report of the General Auditor of Salta, approved in 2012, the institute in question "acted as a contractor to the Provincial Housing Institute for the construction of 230 houses in 2009 and 2010." The main objective was to "encourage the creation of community-building systems from relations of solidarity and mutual aid", i.e., other members of the community to learn and perform tasks together. However, of the 230 units "only 25 were executed by the administration and the rest of IPPIS was awarded to third parties." This says the watchdog, "does not work with the fulfillment of its goal."
Added to this is that the files associated with housing solutions "were incomplete because it does not contain, for example, work plans or work reports of the Housing Executive Unit." There was also no documentation proving that the signatures were indeed outsourced government contractors.
The Audit of Salta also observed that there was "a work stoppage in the Community 7 Homes in Toba II" and "a slow pace in the construction of 10 Homes in Mile 7 and 20 Community Housing Mount Sinai," and several "lagging deadlines."
Goals
On this point, the audit found "differences among the proposed goals and those effectively executed" in 2009. In fact, the exhibit deviations were called "important".
This situation is "a risk in meeting corporate goals." For the audit team was not easy to reach these conclusions because the ISSIP "did not make available, to the Audit, the documentation to verify the construction goals."
