Fundar has been playing a crucial role in the area of budget work at national and international level. In Mexico, Fundar works continuously with a wide array of CSO’s regarding transparency, accountability, monitoring and analysis of public budgets. The organization also keeps a fluid relationship with Congress and public officials of specific programs/sectors. The research and dissemination documents produced by the group have been successfully fed into the budget negotiation and approval, the revision of the public account and other relevant moments.
At the international level, Fundar has coordinated important initiatives to strengthen civil society’s budget work. In 2003, the organization coordinated the Latin American Budget Transparency Index, composed of three different studies in ten countries from the region. During 2004, Fundar headed two regional studies regarding HIV/AIDS: one, focusing on prevention of the disease among adolescents, and another, analyzing the allocation of public funds to prevention and treatment of HIV.

Coordinator: Briseida Lavielle
Researchers: Daniela Díaz, Manuela Garza, Gabriel Lara, Rocío Moreno, Alejandro Ortiz y Mariana Pérez
Assistant Researcher: Jorge Romero.

projects:
The projects in which FUNDAR has been involved regarding public budgets have followed three strategic interests: transparency, gender and human rights.

Transparency:

• Latin American Index of Budget Transparency
• Civil society’s Forum on Transparency and Access to Public
• Information tracking the irregular allocation and use of resources from the Ministry of Health to Pro-Vida
• Revenue Watch: Tracking of oil income

Gender-sensitive Budgets:

• The health sector’s budget and maternal mortality
• Mainstreaming gender into the budget
• Exploratory dialogue between experts on budget analysis and reproductive health, with special emphasis on maternal mortality

Budgets and Human Rights:

• Budgets with a social perspective
• Design of a methodological framework to evaluate the compliance with Economic, Social and Cultural Rights through the budget
• Human rights, budgets and programs for HIV/AIDS in Africa and Latin America
• HIV-AIDS prevention policies and programs aimed at youths and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean

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