Foro Social para la Deuda Externa de Honduras (FOSDEH)
Social Forum for the External Debt of Honduras
Details
Name
- Mauricio Diaz-Burdett Director
More info
- http://www.fosdeh.net/
- +504 2239 2110 | +504 2239 2014 | +504 2239 3404
- +504 239 2014
Address
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Aparatado Postal 1248 Colonia Alameda
Avenida Tiburcio Caras, Casa 1011
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Area of Expertise
FOSDEH was formed in 1995 as a national alliance of nongovernmental organizations specializing in monitoring macroeconomic public policies, external debt and development. FOSDEH's activities include citizen monitoring, research, training, advocacy, dissemination, and organizational capacity building.
Publications
- The Impact of the International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget Survey and its Partner Institutions’ Advocacy on Budget Transparency in Honduras
- ¿Qué es el Presupuesto General de la República?
- Manual de Transparencia y Auditoría Social
- Introducción al Gasto Público y al Presupuesto General de la República
- Los Cien Primeros Dias de la Administracion Lobo Sosa
Major Current Activities
As a former CSBI grantee FOSDEH started a project to increase the analytical base of civil society members on the Honduran PRSP consultation council. The project aimed to focus on the 30 percent of the national budget reserved for poverty investment spending. Proposed analyses of past and current poverty budgets would determine their congruence with PRSP guidelines. This information would feed directly into the multi-stakeholder PRSP Advisory Board. The results of the analyses were intended to train civil society members around the country in monitoring, analysis, and advocacy. The final phase of the project was to conduct an outreach and advocacy process to ensure that citizen's demands for the 2005 budget are taken into consideration.