Access to public information and government transparency in Paraguay are enhanced by a new agreement between the Institute of Law and Environmental Economics (IDEA) and the Office of Citizen Attention, reports suggest:
Its objective is for the two institutions to work together to disseminate Law 5282/14 on Access to Public Information….to be achieved through the institutional strengthening of the Office of Citizenship Assistance, through training for officials in this area on the appropriate ways of serving citizens and the particularities of the right to information.
Ezequiel Santagada, director of IDEA, a group promoting the Law on Access to Public Information, said that internal training workshops for the development of civil service capacities will be supported by the National Endowment for Democracy. RTWT