The CEO, Agoney Piñero, details that the entity has obtained a score of 9.35 and that it will continue working to bring its work closer to the citizens.
The public company Territorial and Environmental Management and Planning (Gesplan), attached to the Department of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands, has consolidated its commitment to improving transparency. Likewise, the entity has achieved a score of 9.35 out of 10 in the evaluation of the Canary Islands Transparency Index (ITC) for the year 2020.
The CEO, Agoney Piñero, explained that there is an increase compared to the grade achieved in the previous year, when it was 9.14 points. “This last year, we have not only managed to maintain, but even increase our score, in accordance with the objectives we have set to continue advancing in improving transparency criteria,” he explained. “In fact, the figures from the latest evaluation prepared by the Transparency Commissioner of our autonomous community confirm that path that we began in 2019, when we went from a score of 3.95 to outstanding,” he stated.
“Given our nature as a public company, we are aware that we must comply with the established criteria and continue doing our part to bring the enormous work carried out at Gesplan closer to the public,” said Piñero. Likewise, he thanked the staff for their involvement in keeping all sections of the entity's transparency portal updated.
Furthermore, the CEO highlighted that the score obtained in the aforementioned evaluation is higher than the average for the entire public business sector of the Canary Islands, which stands at 8.4 points out of 10. "Taking this data into account, we are above the average of the regional government companies by almost one point, which encourages us to continue increasing the score in future years and achieve excellence," he noted.
The Gesplan Transparency portal, in accordance with the provisions of the Canary Islands Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information and the State Law on Transparency, Access to Public Information and Good Governance, makes it possible to make available to citizens, in a clear and accessible manner, different aspects of the company such as the bodies and composition, the statutes and constituent documents, data related to the workforce and agreements, contracts and orders, among others. Likewise, the content of the portal is classified and grouped according to the type of information and can be consulted through the entity's corporate website (www.gesplan.es).
Established in 1991, Gesplan currently specializes, through the five large areas that comprise it, in planning activities, territorial management, ecological transition infrastructure and the environment, providing itself with cutting-edge digital technologies. Over the last few years, the company has established itself as an important executing arm of different Canarian public administrations at regional, island and municipal levels.
