El control en las asociaciones público-privadas en el ecuador período 2015-2020

Abstract

The Public-Private Partnership is a model that involves efficient and effective work between the government and private sector to improve the welfare of citizens and the country in general. This study reviews the literature on PPPs in Ecuador and the control applied to them. The objective is to determine what controls were carried out by the Government of Ecuador (Comptroller General of the State) on the use of public resources in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). It was used a descriptive and qualitative study, the search for information was conducted with national and international data, in the following databases: Scielo, Redalyc, Google academic, Scopus and ProQuest. Then it was carried out an analysis of the audits in 2018, finding 2,048, for the following year (2019) 1,413 audits were performed and 1,555 audits were elaborated in 2020, according to the results found in the web page of the Comptroller General of the State. In conclusion, Ecuador has some control entities that carry out the monitoring of PPP management. However, the Comptroller General of the State has the power to supervise projects under public-private partnership through the execution of audits that allow examining the proper use of public resources. Despite this, the number of audits directed to public-private partnerships has not yet been specified.