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officers; to help prevent undue acts and minimize corruption risks in the acts of the
administration and public officers; to foster transparency in administrative acts and
strengthen the notion of access to information as a statutory right of all citizens. The
training program will be carried out in two ways: a) by means of e-learning courses,
aimed at 150,000 workers of the Central State Administration; and by specific
training courses for 4,000 public officers holding probity and transparency key
positions in every service.
g) Planes Anuales de Capacitación (Annual Training Plans): the Ministry/Secretary of
the Presidency is drafting instructions whereby all the entities and services of the
State Administration will be advised that the Training Bipartite Committees should
include in their respective annual plans specific training activities concerning probity
and transparency taking the Law into account.
h) The State submitted the Manual de Transparencia y Probidad de la Administración
del Estado (State Administration Transparency and Probity Manual) – published in
January 2008 to the Court. This manual is particularly targeted to all persons
rendering services to the State Administration of Chile including, but not limited to,
Ministries, Undersecretaries, Town Halls, Governor’s Offices and other public entities
and services created within the domains of the public administration. The manual
enshrines the right of access to information and provides training troubleshooting
and tools to solve questions like the way in which the citizens may request
information from a public entity; explains the principles on which the right of access
to information is based; summarizes the functions of the Council for Transparency;
outlines the procedure to be followed by the required entity and the system of
remedies. Finally, the State submitted the book entitled Buenas Prácticas en
Probidad, Transparencia y Acceso a la Información en la Administración del Estado,
published in July 2007, which describes various experiences, selected by external
and independent jury, of State organs in order to spread the ideas and initiatives
adopted by the Public Administration to increase transparency, probity and good
practice.
16.
The State concludes that the training activities carried out so far are proof that the
Judgment of the Court is being effectively complied with and asserts that further efforts are
intended to be implemented since every entity should be trained in a customary fashion
taking into account the tasks assigned in relation to the right of access to information.
Therefore, it pointed out that massive training programs disregarding the technicalities of
each position are not practicable; therefore, not all agents have been trained yet. The
training programs for officers of the Judiciary to be implemented are meant to suit these
needs and the Judicial Academy has been contacted for continuing-education courses in the
subject area.
17.
That the representative states that the training and coaching process is highly
oriented towards complying with the Judgment of the Court and follows the transparency
policies arising from International treaties signed by Chile. He makes an “appeal for the
reinforcement of the course contents regarding the fundamental rights comprising the