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1 ectives OW REFORMS Civil Society PerspectivesMEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society PerspectivesMEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Societ HT-TO ciety Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society PerspectivesMEXICO S RIGHT-TO-K SECTION V MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW R Elsa Gómez, La salud y las mujeres en América Latina y el Caribe: viejos problemas y nuevos enfoques (Santiago de Chile: Serie Mujer y Desarrollo, CEPAL, 1997). 2 Objective 5 and Goal 6 of the Millenium Development Summit, held in The objective is to improve maternal health in general, and the specific goal is to reduce the rate of maternal death by 75 percent between 1990 and 2015.

2 Civil Society PerspectivesMEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives OW REF ORMS Civil Civil Society Society PerspectivesS O C I A L P O L I C Y MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TOciety Pe Indicator Maternal death rate per 100,000 births* Goal for the year 2000 Millennium Development Goal for Number of Deaths 2,189 1,543 1, Source: Mexican Government, Appendix of the Sixth Annual Government Report, 2006, p. 92. Available at: presidencia.gob.mx/docs/anexo/pdf/p092.pdf. (Viewed September 2006). Response received via SISI information request * This includes correction for under-reporting. 226

3 ectives OW REFORMS Civil Society PerspectivesMEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society PerspectivesMEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Societ HT-TO ciety Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society PerspectivesMEXICO S RIGHT-TO-K SECTION V MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW R 227 Budget Allocation Categories Category 12 79,631,242 68,299,201 N/A N/A N/A Category ,894,461 N/A N/A N/A Source: Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (Ministry of Finance and Public Credit), Cuenta de la Hacienda Pública (Public Finance Account), 2002, 2003, 2004 y 2005, and Presupuesto de Egresos de la Federación (Federal Expense Budget), Available at: N/A: no information was available on the APV for these years. * The base year 2006 value was taken from INEGI, Mexico s National Statistics Institute Available at: inegi.gob.mx/cgi-win/bdientsi.exe/nivmi i00i00006#arbol. 3 This is outlined specifically in Norma Oficial Mexicana (Offical Normative Standards for Mexico) NOM-007-SSA2-1993: Care for women during pregnancy, labor and birth, postpartum; and care for the newborn. Diario Oficial de la Federación, Mexico, D.F., October 31, Daniela Díaz, (ed.), Muerte materna y presupuesto público (Mexico, 2005), p. 3. Available at 5 The information was requested from the Ministry of Health. In Mexico, the primary complications that result in death are: preeclampsia-eclampsia, bleeding before and after birth (hemorrhage), postpartum infection, obstructed birth and abortion syndrome. 6 Requests were made in the context of general opacity on behalf of the PEF and with the knowledge that funds are channeled through the Seguro Popular.

4 Civil Society PerspectivesMEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives OW REF ORMS Civil Civil Society Society PerspectivesS O C I A L P O L I C Y MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TOciety Pe Budget Allocation Category Category 12 Category 12 Category 33 Delivery System National Center for Gender Equity and Reproductive Health Social Protection System (also called Seguro Popular ) Fondo de Aportaciones a los Servicios de Salud (Health Services Fund, or Fassa) 21,184, 027* 33,342,380* - 441,882,834 63,296, ,478,283 Total 84,480, ,703,496 *Note: The calculation of the peso as a constant value corresponds to the methods used in the following budgets: the budget for the National Center for Gender Equity and Reproductive Health, received in response to SISI request # , July 28, 2006; and the one for Seguro Popular and Budget Category 33: National Commission for Social Protection in Health, Executive Office of Health Services, received in response to SISI request # , June 8, Daniela Díaz, Mortalidad materna: una tarea inconclusa (Mexico: Fundar, 2006). Available at: 8 Daniela Díaz (ed.), Muerte materna y presupuesto público (Mexico: Fundar, 2005) p. 16. Available at: 9 In Guerrero, such a law was approved at the end of Editor s note: At the time this study was carried out, these states had not yet implemented their own Transparency Laws. All three states have now passed local transparency legislation.

5 ectives OW REFORMS Civil Society PerspectivesMEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society PerspectivesMEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Societ HT-TO ciety Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society Perspectives MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW REFORMS Civil Society PerspectivesMEXICO S RIGHT-TO-K SECTION V MEXICO S RIGHT-TO-KNOW R Available at: Indicators on maternal mortality were notoriously absent for the first year, but thanks to pressure from NGOs linked to the women s movement, they were included the next year.

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