Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Aging
Disabled Persons
Economics and Finance
Financing for Development
Habitat
Human Rights
Statistics
Sustainable Development
Women/gender Equality
Financing for Development:
Addressing systemic issues
Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Capacity building
Human rights of women
Information and communication technologies
Women and the economy
Statistics:
Development indicators
Methodological publications in statistics
Sustainable Development:
Capacity-building
Consumption and production patterns
Gender equality
Indicators
Sustainable development in a globalizing world
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Country of activity: |
Peru
Ecuador
Mexico
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
2004 |
| Organizational structure: |
In the creation of Bufete, a group of feminists reflected on how to improve the impact of the women's movement on the public agenda. Years passed and progress was slow. Our conclusion was that all the mechanisms of incidence were complementary, it was important to be on the streets, but also at the other extreme, the design, from within, of public policy. We needed to train and professionalize ourselves on issues that were weakly attended by the feminist movements, the economic issue was one of them. With this we would achieve that, as public servants, parliamentarians or consultants, we managed our mission. This position based on our conception of hope that does not mean that things would go well, but that these forms of action mean that we are on the right way. Thus, we have become a large group of associated consultants, including grassroots women, a multidisciplinary team, with skills, knowledge, technical skills and professionals to provide a quality service and committed to the advancement of democracy in countries where we work. Since 2008, Bufete has developed a Virtual Campus with which we have formed a group of professional social leaders - women and men - in the national territory, with participants from South America, who work permanently as a team and know the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public policies. From this, it is possible to influence, with greater pertinence, efficiency and effectiveness, in the public agenda, to achieve cities and neighborhoods inclusive, productive and resilient. The organizing nuclei of our work have been the framework of public policy, on the one hand, to which has been added, more recently the process of construction of the New Urban Agenda. The team knowledge of the public policy framework was the result of a training program planned by Bufete since 2008, the year of the beginning of distance training through our virtual campus. That year we had the first virtual incursion with the creation and operation of Citizen Observatories. In this case, members of Bufete formed part of the team that designed and operated these Observatories for Transparency and Accountability in Gender Mainstreaming, attached to the Secretariat of Public Function of the Federal Government, which operated with resources tagged by the Chamber of Deputies. In this recurrent experience, in 2008 Bufete operated two of the 11 observatories in 11 participating states. In 2009 it operated four of the seven observatories in the seven participating states. In 2011, operated six of the 20 observatories in the 20 participating states. The second virtual experience consisted of an International Diploma in Applied Research on Gender Responsive Public Budgets in 2010 and 2011, promoted by UN Habitat Mexico and supported by the Secretariat of Social Development of the Government of the Federal District. Twenty-one women and one man, from 10 states of the Mexican Republic and 3 from South American countries were graduated. This diploma was the origin of the formation of the Ibero-American Network for Budget Equality between Women and Men, MIRA, now with an international presence. In this experience we began to develop our approach to budget analysis with a gender perspective in the framework of human rights. Bufete's third international incursion took place in 2015 and 2016 when it coordinated the work of the Urban Thinkers Campus, which was part of the UN Habitat World Urban Campaign for Habitat III, which included 29 Mexican cities and 2 Peruvian cities, 10 universities Mexicans and 32 social organizations and more than 2,000 women and men. |
| Number and type of members: |
Bufete currently has more than 15 associate members and more than 50 for specific projects, with different specialties, allowing it to take a multidisciplinary approach and develop projects for advocacy in various fields. In the participants of the team of consultants, there are Senior and Junior consultants. The first - a little more than 15 - are the team trained in the budget issue that we work through the results-based budgeting (BbyR), central component of the New Public Management, which has accompanied the policies of adjustment structural as part of what has been postulated since the 1980s as "The New Economy." Method of budgeting that is applied in Mexico and in the majority of the countries of Latin America and in several regions of the world. In the budget analysis, we consider the complete stages of the budget process consisting of legislation, planning, programming, budgeting, exercise, monitoring, evaluation, transparency and accountability, to give greater viability to a relevant and sufficient budget, in line with the guidelines towards the achievement of good living of the population subject of rights. In this team of Bufete participate experts in the various platforms of action. The Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement, the Addis Ababa Agenda, and were participants in the UN Habitat World Urban Campaign, some o theme through participation as experts in the Policy Units, and all of them as organizers of the largest Urban Thinkers Campus of the 26 participating Campus in the first stage of this initiative. Junior consultants are those that were integrated from the construction and operation of the Urban Thinkers Campus - more than 50. All of them, Senior and Junior consultants, are familiar with the Beijing Platform for Action, and acknowledge that progress on all these agendas and platforms of action is the way to achieve Agenda 2030 with its Sustainable Development Goals. The affiliation to Bufete is superior, because not all are consultants and also, we have numerous groups of women who begin their training, the number of participants in the Urban thinkers' campus exceeded two thousand, which shows the capacity of mobilization of the team of Bufete. This is documented in reports to UN Habitat in 2016 on the work of the Campus. A process that began in 2017, is the support of Bufete to the formation of the National Network of grassroots women, which will increase, considerably, the number of members of this great team. |
| Funding structure: |
Fees for providing consulting or research services
Donations and grants from domestic sources
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