Ambassador Glazer Participates in Presentation of Study on Transparency
March 22, 2006

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U.S. Ambassador Charles Glazer participated in the March 21 presentation of a USAID sponsored study entitled, "Building Transparency in the Municipalities: diagnostic and recommendations to promote transparency at the local level."

The study describes and analyzes transparency mechanisms in the municipalities and action plans to improve municipal work.

"The study that will be presented today will, I hope, provide new insight into how to make better use of Salvadoran law (the new Law on Government Ethics and Title IX of the Municipal Code, inter alia) as a tool to improving public expenditure management and through this, heightened public confidence in government," Ambassador Glazer said, acknowledging efforts Salvadorans have made to strengthen ethical values and transparency.

Along with Ambassador Glazer, USAID El Salvador Mission Director Deborah Kennedy-Iraheta, and Transparency and Governance Program Director Carlos Guerrero presided over the ceremony.

A copy from the study may be obtained from Casals & Associates, phone 2237-9292