Mexico's Anexo 13 — Two Decades of Ring-Fenced Federal Budget for Women's Equality

Mexico's federal Expenditure Budget has, since 2008, included a dedicated annex — now numbered Anexo 13, 'Erogaciones para la Igualdad entre Mujeres y Hombres' — that ring-fences spending across federal agencies explicitly earmarked for advancing gender equality. According to Fundar, a Mexican budget-transparency organisation, it was the first budgetary mechanism of its kind in Latin America. The National Institute for Women (INMUJERES) and Congress's Centro de Estudios de las Finanzas Públicas (CEFP) jointly track and publish the annex's allocations each budget cycle.
The ring-fenced total has grown substantially: CEFP reports it reached 233,732 million pesos in 2022 (3% of the federal budget), 419,434.1 million pesos in 2024, and 479,248.4 million pesos in the 2025 budget across 35 government branches, including a newly created Branch 54 'Women'.
Independent scrutiny complicates the headline growth, however. Mexican think tank IMCO has argued that a large share of Anexo 13 resources fund programmes with limited transformative gender impact — spending that is nominally earmarked but not necessarily transversal or outcome-tracked — and INMUJERES's own reporting acknowledges the gender perspective is applied 'partially, without a transversal approach throughout the [budget] cycle,' which limits its effectiveness. The mechanism is best read as a mature, well-documented earmarking instrument whose scale is verifiable, but whose downstream impact on gender equality outcomes is only partially evidenced.

Read the full analysis: https://fundar.org.mx/publicaciones/sistematizacion-de-la-experiencia-fundacional-del-anexo-13/