Centro de Investigaciónes y Estudios Superiores en AntropologÃa Social
For A Project To Evaluate The Impact Of The Center For Social Audit
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Amount$200,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/17/2012
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en AntropologÃa Social, a Mexican public university, hosts the Center for Social Audit, an research center focused on generating evidence about how citizen participation in the policy process can be improved. Providing technical assistance, funding, and academic research, the Center works throughout Mexico supporting small, local organizations working to improve citizen oversight of public service delivery and government spending. This project will allow the Center to document and review the impact of five years of funding and technical assistance activities. Additionally, the project will permit the Center to undergo an external evaluation to focus their future work on improving citizen oversight in Mexico.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ciesas.edu.mx
Address
Juarez 87 Col. Tlalpan, Mexico City, 14100, Mexico
Grants to this Grantee
for the CCiudadano program
Ciudadano—formerly the Center for Social Audits (CCS)—partners with local citizen groups to improve citizen oversight of public services and government spending at the subnational level. With this grant, CCS will continue to provide technical assistance to partner organizations and apply research to better understand the pathways through which citizen oversight improves public service delivery.
for citizen-led assessments of education in Mexico
This grant will support the application and refinement of citizen-led assessments to gauge how well students are learning in five states in Mexico. It will also enable researchers to explore how assessments can encourage greater accountability of schools to improve learning outcomes in one state, for the eventual replication of these tactics in other states.
for program support to the Center for Social Audit
This grant would provide program support to the Center for Social Audit to expand work to build the capacity of Mexican organizations working to improve citizen oversight of public services and government spending at the subnational level. After an external evaluation, as well as a process to strengthen their overall organizational capacity, the Center has identified a path for institutional growth. Providing technical assistance, supported by applied research, the Center would work with smaller organizations to build stronger citizen oversight tools, with the ultimate goal of improving the impact on service delivery. The Center would also raise the profile of institutional reforms required to make public systems more accountable to citizens.
