In the Mexican state of San Luis Potos¨ª, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵDEF funds a project to build civic participation to promote democracy and human rights, with an emphasis on youth, women and civil society.
The project works to establish observatories for youth and women¡¯s rights; draft and lobby in State Congress for legislation to develop youth and civil society activities; hold a state forum for building a citizenship agenda; conduct workshops to generate and strengthen citizenship capacity; publish a handbook on participatory citizenship; publish a diagnosis of youth to elaborate legislative state framework; and hold a state forum for women¡¯s rights open to academics, civil society, the Commission of Human Rights and Gender Equity of the State Congress and others.