Democracy

We work strengthening democratic institutions by promoting transparency, participation and citizen collaboration, as well as accountability mechanisms. We seek to contribute to the improvement of public policies and management with a human rights perspective.

Work focus

  • Public Budget
  • Transparency and information access
  • Open government
  • Integrity and corruption
  • Accountability
  • Elections 

Main Activities

  • Monitoring and participation in open government policies, whether local, national and international.
  • Promotion of improvements in mechanisms of public information for access at all government levels.
  • Advocacy for the improvement of integrity and corruption prevention policies.
  • Research and monitoring of public budgets, linked to Fundeps work agendas.
  • Awareness and information actions around electoral periods.

Area Coordinator › Nina Sibilla

María Victoria is a lawyer from the Faculty of Law of the National University of Córdoba (UNC). She completed his Master’s degree in Governance and Human Rights at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She was an intern at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington (2017) and at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica (2019).

Previously, she worked as a lawyer in the Judiciary of Córdoba.

She participated in research teams on environmental and social rights at the Center for Legal and Social Research (CIJS) of the UNC and has teaching experience in the areas of Human Rights and Professional Practice.

She has been part of Fundeps since 2016 and is currently Coordinator of the Democracy Area.

Work team

News › Democracy

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Information requests for the Mitigation Plan of the Bajo Grande plant

Last Friday, FUNDEPS together with Alida Weht, neighbor of the Chacras de la Merced district, presented information requests in the Municipality of Córdoba, in relation to the fulfillment of the Mitigation Plan implemented in the E.D.A.R. of…
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The Regional Agreement on Principle 10 is binding

On March 4, representatives of 24 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica, adopted the first binding regional agreement to protect the rights of access to information, public participation and access to justice…
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Regional meeting of OGP Americas: the open government honeymoon has ended

During November 20, 21 and 22, we participated in the Regional Meeting of Americas of the Alliance for Open Government (OGP for its acronym in English). The event brought together government officials and civil society organizations to discuss progress on transparency, access to information, citizen participation and accountability.
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The province of Córdoba has a new portal of statistics and censuses

Last Friday, November 10, the General Secretariat of the Interior, the Secretariat of Institutional Strengthening and the General Directorate of Statistics and Census; They presented the new statistics portal of the province of Córdoba.

Publications › Democracy

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