The island public sector, comprised of 90 entities (the seven island councils and 83 dependent entities), has an average score of 8.2 points in the Transparency Index of Canary Islands for the years 2022-2023. There has been a slight decline in this assessment compared to the previous one, as this sector had reached an average of 8.42 in the ITCanarias 2021.
In the latest evaluation by the Transparency Commissioner of the Canary Islands, the portals of the seven councils score above 9 points, with significant improvements in the portals of the councils of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, both surpassing 9 for the first time in the six evaluations conducted.
By islands, the sector with the highest score is that of La Gomera, for the second consecutive year, with an average score of 9.71 for the council and its two dependent entities. The sector of the Fuerteventura Island Council, with an average of 7 points, continues to be the lowest scoring, although it has improved compared to the previous year; scoring 6.85 in the ITCanarias 2021.
Out of the 90 entities that make up the island sector, 84 scored above 5 points in the ITCanarias 2022-2023, which is 93.33%, with only six entities not reaching that score: Canarian Sports Foundation (Gran Canaria), Consortium for Water Supply to Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria Basketball Club Claret, S.A., Mixed Compensation Association of the Industrial Estate of Arinaga (Gran Canaria), Canarian Foundation Nanino Díaz Cutillas (Gran Canaria), and Tenerife Medical Institute, S.A. (Tenerife).
There were 17 entities that achieved a perfect score of 10 points in this latest evaluation, with 8 of them consistently scoring maximum points in the ITCanarias for three consecutive evaluations. These are: Tenerife Auditorium, S.A., Island Water Council of La Palma, Tenerife Tax Consortium, La Palma Island Council Music School, Gorona del Viento in El Hierro, S.A., Granadilla Industrial Estate, S.A., Economic Development and Promotion Society of La Palma Island, and TEA Tenerife Arts Space.
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