Centro de Investigaciónes y Estudios Superiores en AntropologÃa Social
For An Evaluation System To Assess Access To Health Services And Maternal Mortality In Mexico
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Amount$175,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2013
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The Observatory of Maternal Mortality has monitored the Agreement to Strengthen Public Health Actions in States with the objective of promoting it as a management model for the public administration, favoring transparency and accountability given its structure and Internet platform. The Observatory has carried out monitoring exercises in eight states; this grant would allow it to extend the monitoring to include performance evaluations, particularly regarding the improvement of medical attention to women. It would also allow the Observatory to verify the resources bought through this agreement, as well as strengthen the local capacities of civil society organizations to monitor and evaluate public policies.
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.
