translated from Spanish: The Government run programs without operating rules

this year was assigned 119 thousand 500 million pesos to subsidies of 11 considered priority programs, but which will operate without rules of operation, i.e. without establishing methodology, manuals or criteria for selection of beneficiaries.
Among these, are mainly young labour inclusion of building the future, whereby you pay 3 thousand 600 pesos a month to the beneficiaries; the Pension for the welfare of persons with permanent disabilities, which split 2 thousand bimonthly 550 pesos, or 100 universities that is intended to create.
Read: Seniors and scholarships to young people are 57% of resources from priority programs of AMLO these 11 actions emblem, which are in annex 26 “main programmes” of the budget of expenditure of the Federation (PEF) 2019, 33% of the budget labeled as “other subsidies”, which are those who do not have operating rules and in total amounting to 358 thousand 689 million pesos, according to an analysis of the PEF prepared by Mexico evaluates.
The Government has justified that they will work with operation guidelines rather than rules. However, they do not have the same standards to guarantee the correct distribution of support and monitor the quality of the program.
“The guidelines and rules of operation to pursue the same objectives, however, the rules of operation have stricter guidelines than rules. The rules of operation are regulated in the Federal law on budget and fiscal responsibility (LFPRH), as well as in the General Law of regulatory improvement and in addition every year its regulation is reflected in the Decree of budget expenses of the Federation (DPEF) “, He said Mexico evaluates.
Guidelines are not subjected to the approval of the National Commission for regulatory improvement (Cofemer), they do not have methodology, procedures, manuals, formats, conventions, convocations or criteria for selection of beneficiaries.
Programs emblem without rules in the PEF decree established an exception to which programs should have rules and what not, without further justification of why: “excepted programmes aimed at increasing educational opportunities at higher level and programs reconstruction”, said the transitional article 10.
However, the document itself contradicted such an exception, since it included programs of agricultural and livestock production, food, pension for people with disability and the planting of trees, among others.
The subsidy that will have more resources without rules to spend is young people building the future, distributed between the two secretariats. Of labour and Social Welfare (STPS) 40 billion for this program, and public education (SEP) of 4 thousand will have 320 million.
Followed by the Universal scholarship for students of education average Superior Benito Juárez, in charge of the SEP, with 17 thousand 280 million. In this case were not published even operation guidelines, although flourishing rules indicate that this programme will gradually become scholarship Benito Juárez for all educational levels.
Then there are sowing life, the Ministry of welfare (before Social development, Sedesol), with 15 billion; the program of production for welfare, agriculture and Rural Development (Sader, formerly Sagarpa) with 9 billion; and the pension for people with disability, 8 thousand 500 million, administered by welfare.
For the national program of nation-building there are 8 billion, which will be exercised mostly by the Ministry of agrarian development, Territorial and urban (Sedatu), and to a lesser extent by the SEP, health and culture.
The rest of the list is made up the program of guarantee prices for basic food products, with 6 billion distributable without rules of operation; of social and sustainable Agromercados 5 thousand 408 million; Livestock loans to the word, distributing 4 billion; the program of fertilizers and the universities for the welfare Benito Juárez, with 1 billion allocated each.
More and more non-operation rules Mexico evaluates programs detected that from 2014 has gone down the budget allocated to programs with rules of operation, and they have exercised even less than budgeted. On the other hand, actual expenditure of the programmes without rules soared by 2015 above than budgeted for these subsidies, and was even higher than the regulated programs.
In 2018, the last year of the Presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto, was one of the most significant differences: had tagged 301 billion with rules and 275 thousand without; but at the end of the year, it had 275 thousand with 384 thousand without. I.e. was spent without regulation 40% more scheduled.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s new Government changed the distribution of the budget: are assigned to programs with 260 billion operating rules, the lowest amount in the last 7 years, with subsidies No 358 thousand rules, that despite the increase remains below What is actually spent in this way with Peña Nieto.
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Original source in Spanish