OECD Public Governance Reviews Auditing Decentralised Policies in Brazil Collaborative and Evidence-Based Approaches for Better Outcomes

Book excerpt: Public policies and services, such as education, health, welfare, infrastructure and sanitation, are increasingly developed and provided via different levels of government (national, regional and local), creating co-ordination and governance challenges. This report describes how Brazil’s 33 courts of accounts can use their oversight function – including audits – to help make such decentralised policies more effective and coherent.