Focus Countries - Mexico

Recent Grants

Population and Reproductive Health
Human Rights

Population and Reproductive Health

Number of Grants: 32

Afluentes (Mexico City, Mexico)
$235,000 to develop teacher training programs for sexuality education (over three years). (2007)

Asesoria, Capacitacion y Asistencia en Salud (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$180,000 to design, pilot and implement a community-based intervention for improving reproductive and sexual health among indigenous adolescents in Los Altos, Chiapas (over 37 months). (2008)

Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir (Mexico City, Mexico)
$300,000 to improve the implementation at the state level of federal policy that promotes young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights in Mexico (over three years). (2009)

Centro de Investigaciones en Salud de Comitan (Comitan, Mexico)
$235,000 to develop educational tools for the prevention of maternal mortality in Chiapas and municipal outreach activities (over three years) (2007)

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (Mexico City, Mexico)
$75,000 to monitor government programs to improve transparency and accountability in Mexico, with a focus on human rights and reproductive health. (2008)

Chiltak (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$150,000 to improve youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in the state of Chiapas (over three years). (2007)

Comunicacion e Informacion de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$180,000 in support of using new Internet-based technologies to increase the quantity and improve the quality of media coverage on maternal mortality and morbidity in Mexico (over three years). (2008)

Consorcio para el Dialogo Parlamentario y la Equidad, Asociacion Civil (Mexico City, Mexico)
$190,000 to strengthen public policy on maternal mortality and young people's reproductive and sexual rights in Mexico (over three years). (2008)

Democracia y Sexualidad (Mexico City, Mexico)
$240,000 to increase access to comprehensive sexuality education among adolescents in Mexico (over three years). (2009)

ELIGE, Red de Jovenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos (Mexico City, Mexico)
$150,000 to improve youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in Mexico (over three years). (2007)

Equidad de Genero Ciudadania, Trabajo y Familia (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 to promote Millennium Development Goal Five to decrease maternal mortality (over three years). (2009)

Family Care International (New York, New York)
$30,000 to translate recently published articles on maternal mortality into Spanish and disseminate them in Mexico and Latin America. (2007)

Fundacion Mexicana Para la Planeacion Familiar (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 to scale-up a model to promote the sexual and reproductive health of rural and indigenous young people in Oaxaca and Guerrero (over three years). (2009)

FUNDAR, Centro de Analisis e Investigacion (Mexico City, Mexico)
$270,000 to monitor and report on the operations and budgets of principal maternal health programs (over three years). (2008)

Informacion y Diseño Educativos para Acciones Saludables (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 to scale up a sexual and reproductive health and rights model for rural indigenous youth (over three years). (2009)

Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (Mexico, Mexico)
$80,000 to integrate maternal health promotion strategies into the public municipal women's institutes in three states, Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca. (2009)

Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica National Institute of Public Health (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
$65,000 to research and make policy recommendations on handling obstetric emergencies in health centers in Guerrero and Chiapas (over 18 months). (2009)

Investigacion en Salud y Demografia (Mexico City, Mexico)
$265,000 in support of preparing a model for improving the quality of public reproductive and sexual health services for youth and adolescents in Mexico and strengthening NGO skills in monitoring and evaluation (over three years). (2008)

Ipas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
$300,000 in support of increasing the availability and improving the quality of legal abortion services (over three years). (2007)

K'inal Antsetik (Mexico City, Mexico)
$210,000 to scale up a model for community based maternal mortality prevention strategies in Mexico (over three years). (2009)

Letra S, Sida, Cultura y Vida Cotidiana (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 in support of media dissemination of youth reproductive and sexual health in Mexico (over three years). (2007)

Marie Stopes Mexico (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$150,000 to improve youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in the state of Chiapas (over three years). (2007)

Mexico National Safe Motherhood Committee Comite Promotor Por Una Maternidad Sin Riesgos En Mexico (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$350,000 to support efforts to decrease maternal mortality in Mexico (over three years). (2009)

Nueve Lunas (Oaxaca, Mexico)
$180,000 to improve the delivery of skilled attendance at birth in rural indigenous areas of Oaxaca and generating support for midwifery training systems (over two years). (2009)

Nueve Lunas (Oaxaca, Mexico)
$100,000 in support of improving skilled attendance at birth in rural indigenous areas of Oaxaca and generating support for midwifery training systems (over two years). (2008)

OneWorld UK (London, United Kingdom)
$45,000 in support of a feasibility and planning project to adapt the Nigerian sexuality education program, Learning about Living, to Mexico. (2008)

Red Ciudadana Feminista de Mexico: Region Centro (Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico)
$80,000 to contribute to improving access to legal abortion services in central Mexico (over two years). (2007)

Rosario Castellanos - Grupo de Estudios Sobre la Mujer (Oaxaca, Mexico)
$210,000 in support of outreach and local policy work for improving reproductive and sexual health among indigenous adolescents in selected municipalities of Oaxaca (over 37 months). (2008)

Salud Integral para la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$230,000 to increase young people's access to reproductive and sexual health services in Mexico City (over three years). (2008)

Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$150,000 to support grassroots projects to prevent maternal mortality and improve young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights in Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca. (2008)

Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$25,000 in support of the 7th International Conference on HIV/AIDS. (2007)

Unidad de Atencion Sicologica, Sexologica y Educativa para el Crecimiento Personal (Merida, Mexico)
$100,000 to scale-up a model of reproductive and sexual health services for young people (over two years). (2009)

Human Rights

Number of Grants: 18

Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos (Mexico City, Mexico)
$317,000 to produce human rights shadow reports in eight Mexican states (over three years). (2008)

Center for Justice and International Law Regional Office for Central America and Mexico (San Jose, Costa Rica)
$450,000 to strengthen the Inter-American System for the protection of human rights through civil society participation (over three years). (2009)

Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montana (Tlachinollan, Mexico)
$350,000 to defend the human rights of the indigenous people of the Mountain and Costa Chica regions of Guerrero (over three years). (2008)

Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Francisco de Vitoria (Mexico City, Mexico)
$200,000 to support legal assistance, litigation, and monitoring of the National Human Rights Program (over three years). (2007)

Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez (Mexico City, Mexico)
$300,000 to support the defense of paradigmatic cases of human rights violations in Mexico in national and international courts (over three years). (2007)

Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (Mexico City, Mexico)
$200,000 in support of a policing research network in Mexico to strengthen programs for police reform. (2009)

Centro de Justicia para la Paz y el Desarrollo (Guadalajara, Mexico)
$100,000 in support of promotion and defense of human rights in the Mexican state of Jalisco. (2009)

Comision Mexicana de Defensa y Promocion de los Derechos Humanos (Mexico City, Mexico)
$300,000 to support litigation on human rights in Mexico (over three years). (2007)

Due Process of Law Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
$180,000 in support of improving human rights in the state of Guerrero, Mexico (over three years). (2007)

Federal District Human Rights Commission (Mexico City, Mexico)
$200,000 to increase the professionalism of public human rights commissions in Mexico. (2008)

FUNDAR, Centro de Analisis e Investigacion (Mexico City, Mexico)
$150,000 to promote accountable institutions of justice in Mexico. (2009)

Human Rights Legal Assistance (Mexico City, Mexico)
$180,000 in support of human rights strategic litigation (over three years). (2007)

Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia (Mexico City, Mexico)
$650,000 in support of strengthening police accountability and civil society capacity building (over three years). (2007)

Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico Centro de Estudios de Derecho Publico (Mexico City, Mexico)
$225,000 to monitor and evaluate the performance of Mexico's federal ombudsman system (over three years). (2009)

Oficina de Defensoria de los Derechos de la Infancia (Delegacion Cuauhtemoc, Mexico)
$240,000 in support of the defense of human rights through public interest litigation in Mexican constitutional courts (over three years). (2007)

Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos Todos los Derechos para Todos (Mexico City, Mexico)
$360,000 to strengthen human rights organizations and coordinate strategy for human rights activities in 20 Mexican states (over three years). (2007)

Sin Fronteras (Mexico City, Mexico)
$100,000 in support of activities to strengthen human rights protection for migrants and refugees in Mexico. (2008)

Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$20,000 to support a planning meeting for the broader human rights community to develop common strategies for advancing human rights in Mexico (over one year). (2007)