University of California at Santa Cruz
For A Project Entitled "Putting Mexico's Information Disclosure Reforms Into Practice: A Rural Civil Society Strategy"
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Amount$240,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/20/2005
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportProject
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ucsc.edu
Address
1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064-1077, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for exercising information rights for accountability on rural development policy in Mexico
The University of California at Santa Cruz has been a crucial partner in the development and continuing impact of the Mexican Agricultural Subsidy Database (www.subsidiosalcampo.org.mx), in collaboration with Mexican civil society organizations. Using access to public information reforms as a tool to gather official government data on subsidy recipients and disseminating that information through a user-friendly online platform, this project has shed light on public spending on farm programs. A renewal would support new content for the website, focusing on highly opaque state-level agricultural programs.
