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Strategies to Increase Access to Information on Health: The Case of the 2012 Budget Act

This article discusses Fundar's efforts in advocating for changes in the Budget Act to improve access to information on health. It explores the impact of these changes on health benefits, medicines, the Popular Insurance, infrastructure resources, and more. The article emphasizes the importance of complete information in shaping policy recommendations from civil society.

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Strategies to Increase Access to Information on Health: The Case of the 2012 Budget Act

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  1. Fundar strategies to increase access to information on health: the case of the 2012 Budget Act Diego de la Mora Maurer April, 2012

  2. Context Fundar has been analyzing health from a financial and budgetary perspective from its foundation in 1999. Our work is focused around the human rights obligations of states and how those obligations interact with public budgets and policies.

  3. Context In 2009 we discoverd that a way to disclose important information was advocating for changes in the Budget Act. That year, working with other organizations we were able to include an article to know what indicators were being used in the Results oriented budget reform.

  4. 2011-2012 budget negotiation Change of strategy: the Oversight Commission at the Federal Congress. In 2011 we worked with the Oversight Commission and found out that there was a special form to be filled to include changes in the budget. So we wrote a wish list…

  5. Budget changes proposed Information on access to health benefits and medicines Information about the impact of the Popular Insurance in the health and personal budget of those insured The particular impact on women and children of the public budget on health Priorities in the resources for infrastructure: poorest municipalities first. The obligation to inform about resources transferred to municipalities

  6. Impact so far… Changes in the Article 40 of the Budget Act Medicines Pocket spending Infrastructure

  7. Lessonslearned Changing the norm does not directly change reality Accesing information is a first step Policy recommendations from civil society are much stronger when information is complete

  8. Thank you! Fundar www.fundar.org.mx @FundarMexico diego@fundar.org.mx @diegodelam

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