The new Blog of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency

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Today we inaugurate a new communication space that aims to bring the work that we carry out from the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency closer to the public while at the same time wanting to contribute to the fight against fraud and corruption from the creation of a public ethics and integrity. In a changing environment like the one we have had to live in, it is necessary to find new spaces to relate to the citizens for whom we work and to be able to communicate with them. If the COVID-19 crisis has taught us anything, it is that in addition to physical spaces we need virtual spaces so that communication can be really effective. The central nucleus of the communicative action of the AVAF is its website, which we have recently updated, and where you can find all the information and activity carried out by the Agency in its different areas of research, legal, documentation, prevention and training.

But having a web page is not a guarantee that this information reaches the public, so we have been deploying a set of channels and formats that adapt to different audiences, and also to their peculiar ways of accessing and consuming information.

In this way we have profiles on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. The audiovisual content that we are generating is available on the YouTube channel while Twitch we use it for the retransmissions that we carry out in streaming.

From the Telegram channel we send information for those who do not use social networks, but want to be up to date with everything related to the fight against fraud and corruption.

We have recently opened channels on Ivoox and Spotify where we publish the audiovisual content generated in podcast format, one of the formats that has been experiencing the greatest growth in recent years.

And from the constant concern to get closer to the public today we welcome “The blog of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency”, a space from which we want to offer information, knowledge and the experience of our work in the day a day that have no place in other spaces.

Public administrations are used to moving in an environment that is sometimes too formal and bureaucratized, as required by regulations and administrative procedure, but which distances us from the majority of the population, so it is necessary to adopt a style and simple and close language and this blog offers us that possibility.

This is ultimately the main objective of this blog: to bring the work that is done in the Agency hand in hand with the people who work in it. And it is that since its creation almost 5 years ago, the Agency staff has been acquiring knowledge and expertise that we believe we have to share with society as a whole.

We also want this blog to be a space for debate and reflection on all those themes and central issues of the Agency’s action, such as the fight against fraud and corruption, transparency, conflict of interest or creation of a public ethics and integrity among many others.

And to contribute to this debate and reflection, we will invite experts in these areas and fields to write in this blog, and in this way they can contribute their knowledge, experience and particular point of view.

We started this new blog with the hope and motivation of being able to be of help to that citizenry for which we work every day.

Finally, do not forget to subscribe to the blog and the newsletter so that you can receive each new publication.

Amalia López Acera Head of the Institutional Relations, Communication and Participation Unit Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency

 
 

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Meeting with CCOO-PV

Press release

The director of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency, Joan Llinares, and the Director of Legal Affairs, Teresa Clemente have met with the General Secretariat of CCOO-PV, Ana García and the union’s Secretary of Occupation, Juan Carlos Gallart, at the headquarters of the agency. The objective of the meeting is to establish ways of collaboration between both institutions to develop actions to disseminate the complaints box, the protection offered by the Agency to persons who report corruption and the improvement of ethics and public integrity in the field of administrations public.

The most transparent municipalities and councils of the Valencian Community collect the Infoparticipa 2020 stamps at the CEU UCH

Press release

The presentation of the Infoparticipa 2020 stamps to the most transparent municipalities and councils of the Valencian Community was held in the Paraninfo of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University (CEU UCH). An accreditation granted by the CEU UCH Observatory of Governance, Transparency and CSR, together with the ComSET Research Group (Sound, Strategic Communication and Transparency) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In this third edition of the study, which assesses the transparency of municipal websites based on 52 indicators, only 7 of the 542 municipalities analyzed, together with the Provincial Councils of Valencia and Alicante, have achieved the 75% compliance necessary to achieve accreditation , in accordance with the Infoparticipa Map methodology, where the results of the Valencian Community are integrated.

Provincial Councils and Councils awarded

On behalf of the awarded Provincial Councils, Vicente Boquera, Secretary General of the Valencia Provincial Council and Antoni Canet Martínez, Head of the Transparency Service, BOP and printing company of the Alicante Provincial Council, have received the Infoparticipa 2020 Stamps from the rector of the CEU UCH, Vicente Navarro de Luján. The Valencia Provincial Council complies with 46 indicators (93.8%) and that of Alicante with 45 of the 52 indicators (91.8%) analyzed in the study by the CEU UCH Transparency Observatory.

Regarding the municipalities, Onda, with 51 indicators, is the Valencian Community council with the highest percentage of compliance (98%). Its councilor for Youth, Innovation and Libraries, Vicente Bou, has collected the Infoparticipa seal. The websites of the municipalities of Elche, Valencia, Gandía and Castellón de la Plana, with 50 indicators, have reached 96% compliance. On behalf of these municipalities, they have collected the Infoparticipa 2020 seal, Purificación Mª Vives, councilor for Senior Policy, Citizen Participation, Transparency and Social Responsibility of the Elche City Council; Pilar de la Torre, Head of the Transparency Section of the Transparency and Open Government Service of the Valencia City Council; Ignasi García, councilor of the Castellón City Council; and, on the part of the Gandia City Council, Gloria Sanmiguel, head of the Modernization Area and Data Protection Delegate, and Mar León, Modernization Technician and Head of Transparency.

Denia, with 47 indicators and 90% compliance, and Rafelbunyol, with 45 indicators and 86% compliance, complete the list of winners today at the CEU UCH. Melania Ivars Rojas, delegate councilor for Equality and Inclusive Policies of the Denia City Council, and Francisco Alberto López, mayor of Rafelbunyol, have collected the Infoparticipa 2020 stamps on behalf of their consistories.

Act of delivery

The Infoparticipa 2020 stamp delivery ceremony, held this morning at the CEU UCH Auditorium, was chaired by the rector of this University, Vicente Navarro de Luján; the president of the Valencia Provincial Council, Toni Gaspar; the regional secretary for Participation and Transparency of the Generalitat Valenciana, Antoni Llorente; the director of the Agència Valenciana Antifrau, Joan Llinares, and the member of the Consell de Transparència of the Generalitat Valenciana, Emilia Bolinches.

During the event, Professor Hugo Aznar, co-director of the CEU UCH Observatory of Governance, Transparency and CSR, presented the results of the 2020 study and the book edited by Tirant Humanidades with the conclusions of the 2019 study, under the title “ Report on local transparency in the Valencian Community (2019) ”. As highlighted, “this year, 92.8% of the municipalities of the Valencia Community fail in transparency. It is necessary to provide funds and means to the councils so that they can achieve the levels of transparency and citizen participation necessary to guarantee truthful and verified information to society ”.