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Bolivia
El Centro de la Democracia
Democracy Center
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| Contact |
Jim Shultz |
| Email |
jimshultz@democracyctr.org |
| Web Site |
http://www.democracyctr.org |
| Phone |
(415) 564-4767 |
| Fax |
(978) 383-1269 |
| Address |
Casilla 5283, Cochabamba,
Bolivia |
| Areas of Expertise |
The Center specializes in helping citizen groups understand how to
effectively participate in the making of public policy, especially in
the area of budget policy. The Center has provided extensive advocacy
and policy training to hundreds of organizations on five continents.
Previously the Center founded the California Budget Project, the
California version of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. It was
also a lead founder of the International Civil Society Budget Initiative
and has consulted with budget groups throughout Latin America. |
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Publications |
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Deadly Consequences: The International Monetary Fund and Bolivia's
Black February, April 2005.
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The Democracy Owners' Manual,
a comprehensive policy and advocacy guide for citizen advocates (Rutgers University
Press).
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"Promises to Keep - Using Budgets as a Tool to Advance Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights".
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Following The Money - Lessons From Civil Society Budget Work And How
They Might Be Applied To The Challenge Of Monitoring Oil And Gas
Revenues.
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The Bolivian Water War, a comprehensive set of
dispatches from the April 2000 public rebellion over water privatization in Cochabamba,
Bolivia.
- "How Big Corporations Became Proposition 13's Biggest
Winners" - (July '97) in The Sacramento Bee (also available on our Web site). An
analysis of the roots of California's conservative tax revolt movement which spread across
the U.S.
- "The Initiative Cookbook - Recipes and Stories from
California's Ballot Wars" - The Democracy Center's 1996 publication on the art of
citizen campaigning on public ballot measures (excerpts available on our web site).
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Major Current Activities |
In addition to its worldwide work with citizen groups and
advocacy development, The Center is undertaking a major investigation
and book project on the effects of globalization in
Bolivia,
"Globalization, Stories from the Front Row." |
Centro de Estudios
para el Desarrollo Laboral y Agrario (CEDLA), Centro de Estudios Superiores
Universitarios (CESU), and La Coordinadora de la Mujer (CSBI
grantees working in a joint project, see below)
| Contacts |
Javier Gómez — (CEDLA)
Roberto Fernández Terán
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(CESU)
Diana Urioste —
(Coordinadora de la Mujer) |
| Emails |
JGomez@cedla.org
roberfteran@hotmail.com
coordina.mujer@acelerate.com |
| Websites |
http://www.cedla.org/
http://www.cesu.umss.edu.bo/ |
| Areas of Expertise |
CEDLA is a research center
founded in 1985 which analyzes economic policies related to rural and
urban workers. CESU is a university-based research center founded in
1992 with a focus on gender, social, and environmental development.
Coordinadora de la Mujer is a network of national, state and local
organizations dedicated to gender equity, especially in public policy.
Their partnership brings together strong analytical capacity, CSO and
labor networks, and access to both Congress and the media. |
| Major Current
Activities |
The teams divided up their
research to focus on two of Bolivia's major players in oil and gas
sector. CESU undertook a major project looking at public revenues from
a Shell/Enron/ Petrobras subsidiary (Transredes). CEDLA undertook a
similar study relating to the Spanish oil giant, Repsol, as well as
ongoing analysis related to the current Bolivian national budget.
Outreach to civil society and national
political actors: Throughout the research process both teams used their
information to educate and brief the groups most engaged in the
country's heated debate over oil and gas revenues. This included La
Coordinadora del Gas (a broad civil society coalition that has been
calling for national recovery of mineral resources), members of the
Bolivian Congress, union leaders, and indigenous organizations. |
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