Supervision is the role, job, or workplace of the superintendent. A superintendent, meanwhile, is a person who has the power and responsibility to observe, inspect and control certain matters to determine if they comply with the provisions of the regulations.
For example: “The electoral inspection will be carried out by a committee of international experts”, “The opposition requests that a neighborhood inspection be implemented to control the progress of the works”, “According to the data provided by the inspection, the project cost $100,000 more than anticipated in the budget. In some countries, there are citizen oversight offices responsible for ensuring compliance with their commitments and obligations by state agencies and public officials. These inspection bodies can analyze State spending and monitor the progress of works carried out by a government, to name two possibilities.
This type of inspection contributes to social control of what the government does. Thanks to their action, it is possible to fight corruption and denounce embezzlement or illegal business. From a formal point of view, we can define citizen inspection as a mechanism that allows inhabitants to participate in the control of compliance with the obligations, functions, powers and commitments of public entities, through certain representatives. By putting civil society in full activity in terms of public procurement and contracting, citizen inspection allows monitoring the processes carried out by public administrations, such as public procurement. The citizen watchdog can carry out such surveillance at any of the levels of government, which are the following: Central, Local and Regional. Likewise, it can closely monitor the operation of public companies and all activities that require the use of State resources. Through citizen inspection, it is possible to monitor and evaluate the execution of the public acts that are necessary and the fulfillment of certain publications, such as the Annual Acquisitions and Contracting Plans (represented by the acronym PAAC) and their selection processes, the which are carried out in the so-called Electronic Purchasing and Contracting System (SEACE), in addition to closely monitoring compliance with contracts and other obligations contracted by public entities.
The objectives pursued by citizen inspection activities, in summary, are the following: * Democratize public management, through the participation of the people in the control of State activities;
* improve the control methods that society can carry out on the allocation of public money;
* combat corruption more efficiently and comprehensively;
* Ensure as far as possible that Public Entities function in accordance with the principles established in the Constitution;
* promote fair and equitable treatment for all, the efficiency and transparency of the State and its entities;
* Constantly remind people that government must be based on healthy, participatory and inclusive practices. Also, in certain nationalities, there are people who have the capacity to make suggestions, but are not qualified to make decisions. In these cases, the oversight bodies are consultative bodies. Finally, it should be noted that elections and peace processes must be controlled by impartial actors, that is, those who have no interest in the actions they control. If a government enters into a peace agreement with a rebel group, an international body may be formed to ensure that the parties abide by the agreement.
