Focus Countries - Mexico

Recent Grants

Population and Reproductive Health
Human Rights

Population and Reproductive Health

Number of Grants: 32

Afluentes (Mexico, Mexico)
$92,000 to research sexuality education needs of young seasonal migrant workers. (2010)

Asesoria, Capacitacion y Asistencia en Salud (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$210,000 to increase participation of indigenous youth in advocating for reproductive and sexual health policies and programs in Chiapas state (over three years). (2011)

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)
$210,000 to disseminate intervention models for the prevention of maternal mortality (over three years). (2010)

Centro para los Adolescentes de San Miguel de Allende (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico)
$225,000 to strengthen professional midwifery in Mexico (over three years). (2011)

Comunicacion e Informacion de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$210,000 to increase media coverage on reproductive rights and sexual health of indigenous youth in Mexico (over three years). (2011)

Consorcio para el Dialogo Parlamentario y la Equidad, Asociacion Civil (Mexico City, Mexico)
$225,000 to strengthen national policies for youth reproductive and sexual health in Mexico (over three years). (2011)

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 advance federal policies supportive of youth sexual and reproductive health and rights in Mexico (over three years). (2010)

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)
$350,000 to strengthen accountability mechanisms for maternal health programs in Latin America (over three years). (2010)

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)
$180,000 to monitor and document institutional changes, budget and operations of maternal health programs (over two years). (2011)

Grupo de Informacion en Reproduccion Elegida (Mexico City, Mexico)
$270,000 to support national, state-level and international advocacy (over three years). (2010)

Grupo Interdisciplinario sobre Mujer, Trabajo y Pobreza (Mexico City, Mexico)
$140,000 to develop policy recommendations to improve the reproductive and sexual health of indigenous youth in Mexico (over two years). (2011)

Gynuity Health Projects (New York, New York)
$100,000 to raise awareness about the use of misoprostol for post abortion care (over 18 months). (2010)

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 City, Mexico)
$225,000 to strengthen community responses for safe motherhood in conjunction with Municipal Women's Institutes in Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca (over three years). (2011)

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)
$180,000 to evaluate community based reproductive and sexual health initiatives and to facilitate NGO coordination in Oaxaca state (over two years). (2011)

Ipas (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
$300,000 in support of advancing access to safe legal abortion in three Mexican states (over three years). (2010)

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)

Marie Stopes Mexico (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$210,000 to support outreach to indigenous and rural adolescents on reproductive and sexual health information and services (over three years). (2010)

Mexico National Safe Motherhood Committee Comite Promotor Por Una Maternidad Sin Riesgos En Mexico (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$220,000 to strengthen professional midwifery and improve the accountability and implementation of the federal maternal health program (over 18 months). (2011)

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)

Nuevos Codices Compatia (San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico)
$75,000 to promote the reproductive and sexual health of indigenous youth in four municipalities in Chiapas (over 18 months). (2010)

Rosario Castellanos - Grupo de Estudios Sobre la Mujer (Oaxaca, Mexico)
$225,000 to support community outreach and local advocacy for improving reproductive and sexual health among indigenous adolescents in selected municipalities of Oaxaca (over three years). (2011)

Salud y Genero (Xalapa, Mexico)
$70,000 to strengthen an educational model for equitable relationships between young men and women, and to promote safe motherhood. (2011)

Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$700,000 to strengthen local capacity and organizing to decrease maternal mortality in rural indigenous areas of Mexico (over three years). (2010)

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: 20

Article 19 (Mexico City, Mexico)
$310,000 to provide protection for journalists under threat and strengthen the free flow of information in Mexico (over three years.) (2011)

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 las Mujeres (Chihuahua, Mexico)
$285,000 to improve access to justice for women who have been victims of gender-based violence (over three years). (2011)

Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez (Mexico City, Mexico)
$360,000 to support litigation to advance implementation of the reform of Mexico's justice system (over three years). (2011)

Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (Mexico City, Mexico)
$425,000 to support a network of experts to improve public security policy (over three years). (2011)

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)

Due Process of Law Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
$33,150 to strengthen the contributions of civil society to Mexico's criminal justice reform. (2011)

Due Process of Law Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
$80,000 to support the protection of indigenous rights in the implementation of the new criminal justice system in Mexico. (2010)

FUNDAR, Centro de Analisis e Investigacion (Mexico City, Mexico)
$320,000 to monitor reform of Mexico's judiciary (over three years). (2011)

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)
$300,000 to strengthen reproductive and human rights protections for vulnerable groups under Mexico's criminal justice reform (over three years). (2011)

i(dh)eas, Litigio Estrategico en Derechos Humanos (Mexico City, Mexico)
$300,000 to support litigation to strengthen implementation of Mexico's new accusatory justice system (over three years). (2011)

Instituto Mexicano de Derechos Humanos y Democracia (Mexico City, Mexico)
$279,000 to incorporate human rights protections in the implementation of Mexico's new accusatorial criminal justice system (over three years). (2011)

Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia (Mexico City, Mexico)
$500,000 to support public security policy reform in Mexico (over three years). (2010)

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 (Mexico City, Mexico)
$500,000 to improve the judicial system's defense of vulnerable groups and individuals in Mexico (over 42 months). (2010)

Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos "Todos los Derechos para Todos" (Mexico City, Mexico)
$360,000 to support information gathering and advocacy on human rights in Mexico (over three years). (2011)

Renace (Monterrey, Mexico)
$300,000 to support litigation and dissemination of information to strengthen implementation of Mexico's new accusatory justice system (over three years). (2011)

Washington Office on Latin America (Washington, D.C.)
$225,000 to improve the quality of U.S. assistance to Mexico (over three years). (2011)