Focus Countries - Mexico

Recent Grants

Population and Reproductive Health
Human Rights

Population and Reproductive Health

Number of Grants: 40

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

Afluentes (Mexico City, Mexico)
$50,000 in support of research on NGO-government collaboration experiences in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Mexico (over two years). (2005)

Article 19 (London, United Kingdom)
$30,000 in support of improving access to government information related to youth sexual and reproductive health services in Mexico. (2005)

Asesoria, Capacitacion y Asistencia en Salud, San Cristobal de las Casas (San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico)
$180,000 in support of developing social outreach strategies for engaging rural indigenous communities in preventing maternal death (over three years). (2005)

Catolicas por el Derecho de Decidir (Mexico City, Mexico)
$270,000 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). (2006)

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)
$35,000 in support of a high-level summit on maternal mortality for Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca and follow up activities for Oaxaca. (2006)

Centro Mujeres (La Paz, Mexico)
$130,000 in support of improving young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights in the state of Baja California Sur (over two years). (2005)

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)

Comite Promotor Por Una Maternidad Sin Riesgos En Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
$180,000 in support of efforts to decrease maternal mortality in Mexico (over three years). (2006)

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)

Comunicacion e Informacion de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$150,000 in support of increasing media coverage of maternal mortality and morbidity (over three years). (2005)

Consorcio para el Dialogo Parlamentario y la Equidad, Asociacion Civil (Mexico City, Mexico)
$170,000 in support of improving parliamentary debate and knowledge of maternal mortality and morbidity, including Mexico´s national and international commitments, related to reducing the maternal mortality ratio (over three years). (2005)

Democracia y Sexualidad (Mexico City, Mexico)
$240,000 in support of a national sexuality education campaign and improvement of government reproductive and sexual health services to youth (over three years). (2005)

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)
$190,000 in support to monitor and disseminate information about Mexico's fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goal to decrease maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015 at the federal level and in three states (over three years). (2006)

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Mexico City, Mexico)
$30,000 in support of the design of a national survey on sexuality education. (2006)

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)

Foro Nacional de Mujeres y Politicas de Poblacion Capitulo Distrito Federal (Mexico City, Mexico)
$150,000 in support of improving federal public policy for maternal mortality and morbidity reduction and increasing visibility of the issue among policy makers (over three years). (2005)

Foro Nacional de Mujeres y Politicas de Poblacion Capitulo Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico)
$190,000 in support of increasing access to emergency obstetric care in the Southern Sierra region of Oaxaca state (over three years). (2005)

Fundacion Mexicana Para la Planeacion Familiar (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 in support for the consolidation of a model to promote the sexual and reproductive health of rural and indigenous young people in Oaxaca and Guerrero (over three years). (2006)

FUNDAR, Centro de Analisis e Investigacion (Mexico City, Mexico)
$270,000 in support of research and dissemination of information regarding public budgetary allocations for maternal health and reducing maternal death (over three years). (2005)

Grupo de Informacion en Reproduccion Elegida (Mexico City, Mexico)
$270,000 in support of the defense and promotion of reproductive rights in Mexico through recording, documenting and litigating reproductive rights violations and training government, non-governmental organizations and members of the local community (over three years). (2006)

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)

Investigacion en Salud y Demografia (Mexico City, Mexico)
$200,000 to continue and disseminate a longitudinal survey on sexual and reproductive health of young women ages 12-19 in rural communities of Oaxaca (over 27 months). (2005)

Investigacion en Salud y Demografia (Mexico City, Mexico)
$255,000 in support of strengthening NGO skills in monitoring and evaluation of work to advance youth sexual and reproductive health and rights and decrease maternal mortality (over three years). (2005)

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)

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)

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)

Observatorio Ciudadano de Politicas de Ninez, Adolescencia y Familias (Mexico City, Mexico)
$50,000 in support of the development of an internet-based networking system for young leaders involved in IMSS Oportunidades' rural adolescent program. (2006)

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 scaling up of a training model for preventing maternal mortality with government health workers from the Oaxaca Ministry of Health and IMSS Oportunidades (over three years). (2005)

Salud Integral para la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$190,000 in support of consolidating and scaling up a model for increasing use of reproductive and sexual health services by public high school students (over three years). (2005)

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

Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$250,000 in support of local organizations' initiatives for improving youth reproductive and sexual health or decreasing maternal mortality (over thirty four months). (2006)

Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer (Mexico City, Mexico)
$470,000 in support of a program to strengthen the leadership capacity of indigenous women to decrease maternal mortality and improve the population's reproductive health (over three years). (2006)

Thais, Consultoria en Desarrollo Social (Mexico City, Mexico)
$225,000 in support of scaling up and refining a youth outreach model for rural adolescents, linked to IMSS Oportunidades (over three years). (2006)

Thais, Consultoria en Desarrollo Social (Mexico City, Mexico)
$25,000 in support of systematization of the IMSS Oportunidades model for youth and sexual and reproductive health and rights. (2006)

Unidad de Atencion Sicologica, Sexologica y Educativa para, el Crecimiento Personal (Merida, Mexico)
$150,000 in support of documenting and scaling up a model of reproductive and sexual health services for young people (over three years). (2005)

Human Rights

Number of Grants: 23

Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos (Mexico City, Mexico)
$210,000 in support of producing human rights shadow reports in eight Mexican states (over three years). (2005)

Center for Justice and International Law, Regional Office for Central America and Mexico (San Jose, Costa Rica)
$300,000 in support of the promotion and defense of human rights in Mexico through the use of the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights (over three years). (2006)

Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montana, Tlachinollan A.C. (Tlapa de Comonfort, Mexico)
$320,000 in support for the defense of the human rights of the indigenous people of the Mountain and Costa Chica regions of Guerrero (over three years). (2005)

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 Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez (Mexico City, Mexico)
$90,000 to support the defense of paradigmatic cases of human rights violations in Mexico in national and international courts. (2006)

Centro de Investigacion para el Desarrollo (Mexico City, Mexico)
$248,000 in support of a diagnostic of policing in Mexico in the context of the process of national criminal justice reform (over three years). (2006)

Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (Mexico City, Mexico)
$460,000 in support of the establishment of a policing research network in Mexico in order to strengthen programs for police reform (over three years). (2006)

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)

FUNDAR, Centro de Analisis e Investigacion (Mexico City, Mexico)
$450,000 in support of strengthening the public human rights commissions (over three years). (2005)

Fundar, Centro de Analisis e Investigacion (Mexico City, Mexico)
$300,000 in support of Citizen Monitoring of Police and Law Enforcement Bodies in Guerrero (over three years). (2006)

Guerrero Human Rights Network (Chilpancingo, Mexico)
$250,000 to support the strengthening of the legal defense of human rights in the state of Guerrero (over three years). (2006)

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

Instituto Mexicano para el Desarrollo Comunitario AC (Guadalajara, Mexico)
$320,000 to support the creation of a formal human rights network in the state of Jalisco (over three years). (2005)

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 para la Seguridad y la Democracia A.C. (Mexico City, Mexico)
$320,000 in support of building models for police accountability and civil society capacity building (over two years). (2005)

Mexican Commission of the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, Mexican Coalition for the International Criminal Court (Mexico City, Mexico)
$25,000 in support of the implementation of the International Criminal Court in Mexico. (2006)

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)

Universidad de Chile, Instituto de Asuntos Publicos (Santiago, Chile)
$170,000 in support of the establishment of a policing research network in Mexico in order to strengthen programs for police reform (over three years). (2006)