Incidencia con gobiernos y en políticas públicas:

Sustainable Economy

• IMCO partnered with the Mexican Association of Economic Development Ministry (AMSDE) to boost productivity and economic competitiveness in all 32 Mexican states.
• The study of inflation by deciles was recognized as a valuable exercise in the Advisory Council of Users of INEGI (National Institute of Statistics and Geography). 
• IMCO participated in the two year anniversary forum of the T-MEC: challenges and opportunities organized by the Mexican Senate.
• IMCO analyzed the implementation of the USMCA. This generated interest among key stakeholders in the Senate of the Republic, with whom they held a meeting to assess the possibility of creating a special monitoring group in the Senate.
  
• MCO participated in two open parliament forums, in which it showed the environmental costs of the constitutional reform in energy proposal.

Effective Governance

• The Secretary of Public Function and its team recognized the contributions of the Corruption Risks Index (IRC) and stated that they will use it to map the risks of corruption in federal institutions. Likewise, the office of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) held a meeting with IMCO in which they revealed that the IRC is being used to identify the risks of federal purchases.
• The IRC was named the second best civil society organization in the 2022 Innovation in Transparency Contest organized by INAI.
• IMCO trained 35 public officials from across the country who are responsible for the implementation of open contracts to enhance transparency in information and reduce the risk of corruption in these procedures.
• IMCO organized a public finances course which trained more than 1,233 state and municipal officials. It also helped 16 state and 5 municipal governments improve their budget use and transparency. 

Inclusive Society

• Held dialogues with governmental authorities. The research of this area allowed IMCO to have direct communication with the Ministry of the Economy; Superior Auditor of the Federation; Inmujeres; the IMSS at the federal level, and the Mexico City ministries of Labor, Economic Development, Women, and Administration and Finances.
• Influence on legislative proposals. IMCO was mentioned in the preamble of four initiatives. At the federal level, the Senate seeks to reform the Federal Labor Law concerning paternity leave. Likewise, at the local level in Baja California, Oaxaca, and Veracruz, initiatives on various gender equity topics were presented.
• The presidency of the Secretariat of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology of San Luis Potosí used research data from IMCO about the full-time schools program. Likewise, the congress of the State of Mexico utilized an analysis developed by IMCO to support a proposal to demand a budget and guarantee longer school days and food services for the students.

Impact on Government and the Private Sector:

Sustainable Economy  

• The governors of Querétaro, Chihuahua, Yucatán, Zactecas, Coahuila, and the chief of government of Mexico City referred to IMCO’s State Competitiveness Index (ICE) to demonstrate their state’s respective performance.
• The president of Costa Rica reviewed data from the Index of International Competitiveness (ICI) to demonstrate the country’s clean energy production.

Institutions and Governance

• The State Expenditure Exercise Report (IEEG) continues to be the main state-level framework for enhancing information on expenditure execution. The governments of Jalisco, Guanajuato, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo, as well as a local congresswoman from Coahuila, mentioned their entities’ rankings in the IEEG to demonstrate compliance with governmental accounting regulations.

Inclusive Society

Women in the Economy

• IMCO held an alliance with the Research Center for Women in Senior Management (CIMAD) of IPADE, 50/50 Women on Boards, and the 30% Club to develop the 2022 report on women’s participation in the Mexican stock market.

Education

• The organization Laurate Educación (UNITEC and UVM) partnered with IMCO to help high school students make more informed career decisions through a Career Comparison platform.

Impact on Institutions and Policies:

Sustainable Economy

• Investigations done by IMCO were used to provide evidence for two open parliamentary sessions in the house of representatives: one concerning the Electric Industry Law and the other concerning the Bank of Mexico.

Institutions and Governance  
Public Procurements

• The SHCP (the Large Registry Office) will include the new version of the Compranet platform as well as multiple recommendations and proposals made by IMCO.
• The UNOPS updated its transparency policies based on an IMCO study which revealed that the medicine and health-product purchases carried out were opaque and did not include the unit price, the purchased quantity, or the acquisition of those items.

Inclusive Society  

Women in the Economy

• The National Institute for Transparency (INAI) awarded IMCO the second place in the Civil Society category of the 2021 Innovation in Transparency competition for its contributions monitoring data related to women in the workforce focused on shedding light on the gender wage gap in the Federal Government.

Education

• Federal legislators took up IMCO data on student learning to support an initiative striving to strengthen the National System for Constant Improvement in Education.

IMCO on Governmental Decisions:

• IMCO’s Urban and State Competitiveness Indexes are invaluable sources of information which have served entrepreneurial leaders as well as the governors of Yucatán, Torreón, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Puebla, Mexico City, Chihuahua, Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Mérida, Hermosillo, Durango, and Morelia. They are particularly useful in identifying aspects that need improvement and in providing concrete rankings that can be used to demonstrate progress, which ultimately encourages investment.
• IMCO’s research on the effects the Covid-19 pandemic had on the economy have enabled public officials and institutions to mitigate the consequences and impacts of the situation, particularly to touristic states, and to demand that their local congresses work to reduce unemployment.
• The Coordination Committee of the National Anticorruption System used IMCO anti-corruption data to strengthen the recently passed National Anticorruption Policy.
• The IMCO identified and disclosed that within the National Transparency Platform, it was not possible to submit information requests to ask for the Insabi contracts related to emergency care. A few days later, this option was enabled.
• The municipal government of the city of Chihuahua utilized the platform “Mapeando la Corrupción” to analyze public purchases that the city carried out during 2018 and 2019.

IMCO on Legislative Decisions:

• Legislators used data from IMCO to position themselves regarding national energy issues such as the Dos Bocas refinery and the role of state-owned productive enterprises in the creation of competitive markets.
• Morena used IMCO’s 2020 Legislative Report data to support a policy for austerity and state-congress efficiency, which they published in their economic plan for confronting COVID-19. With this legislative agenda, the party aims to eliminate discretionary social assistance allocations.
• Mexico City’s congress approved the Guidelines for Transparency in Acquisition, Leasing, and Deeds Processes Agreement, pushed forth by IMCO’s work as part of the Open Parliament Action Plan.
• Legislators and civil society organizations used IMCO data to push for changes and reforms in mobility, road traffic safety, and public procurement of medication.

• The #3de3 (three of three) initiative, which IMCO pioneered in 2015, was replicated by civil society organizations in Colombia, Guatemala, and Costa Rica.
• The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) pushed for Colombia and Chile to replicate IMCO’s Corruption Risks Index (CRI).
• According to the Federal Government, IMCO’s School Reconstruction Map is the most trustworthy source of information regarding school reconstruction in Mexico, and serves as the database for the 2019 National Reconstruction Program diagnostic.
• Currently, 21 states utilize the model budget created by IMCO. States also comply with 85% of the budget transparency guidelines.

• 2018 Elections: Various projects that sought to inform citizens about the 2018 electoral race were carried out.
• #TeEstamosViendo:: Citizen reports sent through twitter were used as evidence by the National Electoral Institute (INE) to sanction irregularities in electoral finances. These reports generated fines of more than 1.596 billion Mexican pesos (~83.2 million USD in 2018).
• #3de3: Over 500 candidates presented their financial declaration including four presidential, 37 gubernatorial, and 106 senatorial candidates.

• Mexico City enacted a normative measure to reduce the number of parking lots by establishing a maximum, rather than a minimum, number of spaces. This initiative was spearheaded by IMCO, along with the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) and the Ministry of Urban and Housing Development (SEDUVI).

• On June 5th, IMCO, working alongside other organizations and more than 600 thousand citizens, helped pass “Ley3de3” (three of three law), a citizen-driven approach to transparency in election campaigns.

El IMCO se enfocó en la lucha anticorrupción:

• “Hablemos de corrupción” Conference: The first organized conference that compiled recommendations from each of its panels for government actors and private organizations to create anti-corruption discussions and legislation in Mexico .
• IMCO, along with Mexican Transparency (TM), created the #3de3 initiative mandating that public candidates and officials demonstrate their commitment to accountability by making three types of declarations: monetary interests, inheritances, and personal finances.