8. Networking and contact details

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8.4 Latin America and the Caribbean
Universidad del Pácifico
Contact: Arlette Beltrán
Email: abletran@up.edu.pe
Departamento Académico de Economía
Apartado 4683,
Lima 100, Perú

The Ford Foundation is collaborating with the Universidad del Pacifico on a project on budgetary transparency in Argentina, Chile and Peru.
Equidad de Genero, Ciudadania, Trabajo y Familia
Contact: Lucía Pérez
Abasolo 176,
Col. Del Carmen Coyoacán,
Mexico DF 04100, Mexico
Email: presupuesto@equidad.org.mx
Equidad is a non-governmental organisation committed to the empowerment of women leaders in Mexico. Its work on gender budgets aims to give women's organisations an advocacy tool for governmental accountability.
Foro Nacional de Mujeres y Politicas de Población
Chilpa #1-A
Col. Villa Coyoacán, C.P. 04020
México, D.F., Mexico
Email: foropob@laneta.apc.org
http://www.laneta.apc.org/foropob/
The Foro is a network of various Mexican women's organisations that work in the follow-up of governmental agreements and plans of actions derived from the Cairo (1994) and Beijing (1995) conferences.
Fundar
Contact: Helena Hofbauer Balmori
Email: helena@fundar.org.mx
Popotla No. 96, Int. 5
Tizapan - San Angel
C.P. 01090, Mexico D.F., Mexico
Tel: +52 5595 2643
Fax: +52 5681 0855
http://www.fundar.org.mx/
See BRIDGE's 'Gender and Budgets Overview Report' in this Cutting Edge Pack for more information on Fundar's gender budget work. Helena is the author of the Overview Report.

Fundar run training on gender budgets right across Central America.

Coordenadoria da Mulher da Prefeitura do Recife
Contact: Karla Magda de Melo Menezes
Email: kmagda@recife.pe.gov.br
Municipalidad de Recife
Prefeitura do Recife
Av. Cais do Apolo, 925
8º andar - Cais do Apolo - Recife - PE
Tel: +81-3425.8413 - 3425.8055
E-mail (general): coordenadoriadamulher@recife.pe.gov.br
See article in In Brief on the work of the Women's Coordinating Group in promoting women's involvement in the participatory budget processes in the municipality of Recife.
UNIFEM Andean Regional Office
Contact: Raquel Coello
Email: raquel.coello@undp.org
Regional Programme Officer, UNIFEM
P.O. Box 17-03-4731
Edif. Naciones Unidas 2do Piso
Avenida Amazonas 2889 y La Granja, Quito, Ecuador
Tel: +593 2 246 0329, 246 0334
Fax: +593 2 246 0328
http://www.undp.org/unifem/global_spanner/andean.html

Currently undertaking gender budget analysis in:

  • Bolivia - national budget and municipality of La Paz
  • Ecuador - municipality of Cuenca, Quito and Salitre
  • Peru - municipality of Villa El Salvador.

Early findings indicate the lack of gender sensitivity in the existing budget processes.

See Pearl, 2002, 'The Andean Region: a multi-country programme' in sub-section 4.2.4 on Latin America in Case Studies.