One of the priority programs announced by the current administration at the beginning of this six-year term was the Livestock Credit to the Word program, whose objective was to increase the productivity of small livestock producers, through the provision of in-kind support and actions for sustainable comprehensive productive capitalization 1. However, it was only in operation during 2019 and with less than 25% of its original budget.
In 2019, an amount of $4 billion pesos 2 was allocated to him for the operation of this program within the Federation's Expenditure Budget (PEF). In addition, in February of that same year, the Operating Guidelines were published. However, it had a reduction of 75.5% 3 with respect to the allocated budget, so it operated with only $980 million pesos. Also, it should be mentioned that of the four types of support, only two were dispersed: repopulation of livestock and/or animals and food supplements.
In the dispersion of these resources, the Federal Supreme Audit Office found some inconsistencies and flaws in the process. For this reason, he concluded that there was an “lack of efficiency in public spending, due to the lack of a comprehensive, accessible, timely, relevant, verifiable and intelligible standard that provides adequate transparency and accountability” 4.
Some of the main anomalies found were the following:
From the audited budget, there is no information about the beneficiaries or the amount of livestock delivered or the amount of these in 14.2% of the budget. In addition, anomalies were found in the patterns, since 6 different patterns were identified, from which duplication could be observed between beneficiaries and cattle.
In addition, these standards provided differ by more than $96 million pesos and 109 beneficiaries from the standard published in the Comprehensive System of Government Program Standards (SIIPP-G). In addition, 391 beneficiaries were identified that do not correspond to the target population of the program, since they were not small producers.
As for the Technical Agents — legal persons designated to support the execution of the program's activities — there was a lack of oversight of the actions carried out. In the same way, breaches were reported with the selection and appointment files of Technical Agents. These Agents also failed to verify expenses of $27,538.6 thousand pesos.
The lack of transparency, accountability and solid operating mechanisms has not been exclusive to this program, since this error has been systematically reflected both in newly created programs and in existing programs. For example, in the dispersion of Bienesca 2020, there was a lack of transparency in the construction of the producer register, which was the basis for dispersing the resource, and they also had more than 1,770 duplicate beneficiaries; 5 In addition, in the Fertilizers program, in the diagnoses that were presented, there was no definition or quantification of the potential or target population; besides, there is no report of a systematization of the demand for support 6. As for the Production for Welfare Program, there were problems with the identification of the problem as well as the characterization of the target population. 7
It should be remembered that the mission of SADER is “to formulate, conduct and evaluate the general policy of rural development, in order to raise the standard of living of families living in the countryside, in coordination with the competent agencies ”. 8 In the new context of COVID, it is becoming imperative that SADER programs and actions have an impact on the rural sector. Therefore, programs must have better control mechanisms, greater transparency and accountability to improve the dispersion of subsidies and ensure that these budgetary allocations promote the development of the sector.
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