International Budget Project - Groups in Mexico

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FUNDAR Centro de Análisis e Investigación
(FUNDAR Center for Research and Analysis)


Contact	Jorge Romero León, Executive Director
Email	jorge@fundar.org.mx
Website	http://www.fundar.org.mx
Phone	011 5255 5554-3001
Fax	011 5255 5554-3001 ext 140
Address	FUNDAR Centro de Análisis e Investigación Cerrada de Alberto Zamora núm. 21 Col. Villa Coyoacán, Del. Coyoacán, C.P. 04000 México D.F., México
Recent Reports	Dignity Counts: a guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights (Fundar, IBP, IHRIP, 2004). An analysis of the Mexican health system is used as a case study to illustrate how budget analysis can be used to promote economic, social, and cultural rights. Muerte materna y presupuesto público (coordinated by Daniela Díaz, 2004). A publication that presents the most recent findings on the budget dedicated to maternal health in Mexico, looking at federal expenditures and cases in Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca. This book also includes the costing of Emergency Obstetric Care. Recursos naturales e ingresos fiscales en México (by Juan Carlos Quiroz and Jorge Romero, 2004). This booklet gives an overview of the importance that oil revenues have in the Mexican budget, at the same time of analyzing the trends in oil-generated incomes, and the management of the oil stabilization fund. Gasto en salud: propuestas para la mesa de gasto de la Convención Nacional Hacendaria (by Briseida Lavielle, Manuela García, Daniela Díaz y Rocío Moreno, 2004). This booklet analyzes the Mexican health system, recent reforms, and the way in which resources should be allocated in order to reduce inequities in the country. This analysis was submitted to the Fiscal Convention. Información, transparencia y rendición de cuentas en el Presupuesto de Egresos de la Federación. Propuestas en Transparencia para la Convención Nacional Hacendaria (by Alejandro Ortiz y Jorge Romero, 2004). The document examines some of the principal issues regarding budget transparency at federal level, and comprises proposals submitted to the Fiscal Convention. HIV/AIDS and human rights: public budgets for the epidemic in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Nicaragua (edited by Gabriel Lara and Helena Hofbauer, 2004). This book summarizes the Latin American findings of a ten country study analyzing HIV/AIDS budgets. It uses a human rights framework to evaluate the adequacy of the budget. ¿Cómo fortalecer la participación de la Cámara de Diputados en el gasto público? (by Juan Antonio Cepeda, David Dávila and Jorge Romero, 2005).This booklet analyzes the role of the legislature in the budget process, and makes suggestion on how to strengthen it.
Major Current Activities	Fundar is coordinating the Latin American budget transparency index in 9 countries: Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. It will be released at the end of 2005. Oil revenue watch activities: the Mexican budget is highly dependant on oil revenues; for that reason, Fundar monitors oil revenues and works with Congress on this issue. Click here for a daily update. Legislative Watch activities: Fundar conducts a weekly update on the agenda, activities and decisions of the Budget Committee in the Federal Congress. Click here for a detailed monitoring. In collaboration with other organizations, Fundar is integrating a first evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals, using budget analysis as a tool. Fundar is developing a subnational index of budget transparency, which will be applied for the first time in 2006. Fundar continues to work on maternal health and public budgets at federal level and in three states.

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
(Center on Research and Teachings in Economics)


Contact	Laura Sour, Professor, Public Administration Division
Email	laura.sour@cide.edu
Web Sites	CIDE: http://www.cide.edu CIDE's Budget Project: http://www.presupuestoygastopublico.org
Phone	011 5255 5727 98 63
Fax	011 5255 5727 9873
Address	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas 3655, Carretera México-Toluca Mexico City, 01210, México
Areas of Expertise	Public budget and spending, public finance, decentralization, tax compliance, experimental economics, transparency and accountability.
Recent Reports	“Democracia y transparencia en la aprobación presupuestaria mexicana” Perfiles Latinoamericanos, Año 15, No. 30, pp. 123-151, Julio-diciembre 2007. ¿Cuánto cuesta vigilar al gobierno federal? Guillermo Cejudo y Laura Sour Instituto de Administración Pública del Estado de México, A, C. (IAPEM) No. 66, pp. 201-235, enero abril 2007. Evaluando al gobierno electrónico: avances en la transparencia de las finanzas públicas estatales Economía, Sociedad y Territorio Vol. VI, No. 23, 613-654, enero-abril 2007. Cumplimiento fiscal y bienes públicos ¿Son realmente compatibles? Tax Compliance & Public Goods: Do they really get along? El Trimestre Económico Vol. 73, No. 292 pp. 863-880, octubre-diciembre 2006.
Major Current Activities	Research and coordination of the “Program for Budget and Public Spending, CIDE.”

Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia
(Gender Equity: Citizenship, Labor and Family)


Contact	Lucía Pérez Fragoso
Email	presupuesto@equidad.org.mx
Phone	011 5255 5658 7114
Fax	011 5255 5658 71 29
Address	Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, A.C. Abasolo #201 Col. del Cármen Coyoacán México, D.F. C.P. 04100
Areas of Expertise	Mainstreaming gender equity in public institutions, leadership and advocacy training for women, gender budget analysis and formulation, and feminist economics.
Recent Reports	Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, A.C. Las Finanzas Publicas del Sexenio, 2000-2006. México, 2006. Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, A.C. Índice de Compromiso Cumplido México 1995-2003. México, 2005. Equidad de Género: Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia, A.C./Secretaría de Salud. Guía para la Formulación de Presupuestos Públicos con Enfoque de Género, en el Sector Salud. México, 2004.
Major Current Activities	Promoting the institutionalization of gender equity in public institutions. Development of methodologies for the formulation of municipal and sector-specific gender budgets. Research on gender and taxation. Training on budget analysis and formulation for other NGOs, as well as for legislative and executive government officials. Consultation with local governments on the formulation of gender responsive budgets.

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