Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida
For A Project To Strengthen Transparency And Accountability Related To Reproductive Rights
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Amount$350,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/15/2018
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
This grant will enable Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE) to monitor the use of funds of the Executive Commission for Attention to Victims for female victims of human rights violations; support the fourth edition of the Report on Reproductive Rights in Mexico, which will continue to analyze information regarding the Mexican government’s compliance with national and international reproductive rights; and produce a guide on transparency mechanisms to empower rights activists and lawyers on the use of access to information for reproductive rights advocacy. It will also monitor service delivery quality by measuring the legal empowerment of women and families in GIRE’s strategic litigation work.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
gire.org.mx
Address
Antigua Taxqueña 174, Colonia Barrio San Lucas Delegación Coyoacan, Mexico City, 04030, Mexico
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE) is a feminist organization with 30 years of experience in comprehensive legal accompaniment, advocacy, research, and communication strategies. These strategies are interconnected as a way to achieve a social and cultural transformation in Mexico by demanding reproductive justice from a human rights perspective, while maintaining strong relationships, alliances, and collaboration with national and local organizations and collectives both in Mexico and regionally. GIRE’s aims to react to contextual changes, challenges, and opportunity windows for the reproductive justice movements, as well as to mitigate internal risks. GIRE will work to expand and explore systemic change projects and initiatives that are usually underfunded. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for board development
The Grupo de Informacion en Reproduccion Elegida (GIRE) is a long term grantee of the Foundation which is undergoing an important leadership transition since March 2020 and has used OE grants to strengthen its MEL capacities and to develop a new Strategic Plan. This OE grant will allow GIRE to conduct a thorough analysis of its Board to increase the diversity, equity and inclusion of its membership and evaluate its overall functioning.
for a project to strengthen transparency and accountability related to reproductive rights
Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida is a feminist organization in Mexico that seeks reproductive justice. This grant will enable them to monitor the recommendations of the National Commission on Human Rights to search redress for reproductive rights violations within public health services; continue their work on legal accompaniment and empowerment of victims of reproductive rights violations; and carry out a sophisticated communications strategy to translate findings from their research into advocacy tools to demand improved access to public reproductive health services. This grant is aligned with the Service Delivery Monitoring substrategy in the Transparency, Participation, and Accountability strategy.
