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

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Created in 2008, Latin America's first such mechanism, Mexico's federal budget Annex 13 earmarks spending for women's equality; the total grew from 233.7bn pesos (2022) to 479.2bn pesos (2025), though analysts warn much funds non-transformative programmes.

233,732 million pesos
Anexo 13 ring-fenced total, 2022 (2022)
419,434.1 million pesos
Anexo 13 ring-fenced total, 2024 (2024)
479,248.4 million pesos
Anexo 13 ring-fenced total, 2025 (2025)
35 branches
Government branches covered, 2025 (2025)
3 %
Share of federal budget, 2022 (2022)
Mexico's Anexo 13 — Two Decades of Ring-Fenced Federal Budget for Women's Equality

Details

Maturity
Established
Promoter
Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (INMUJERES) / Cámara de Diputados (CEFP)
Period
2008–present
Keywords
public finance, gender budgeting, government

Context

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, described by Fundar as the first budgetary mechanism of its kind in Latin America.

Objectives

The National Institute for Women (INMUJERES) and Congress's Centro de Estudios de las Finanzas Publicas (CEFP) jointly track and publish the annex's allocations each budget cycle.

Activities

CEFP reports the ring-fenced total 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'.

Results

Independent scrutiny complicates the headline growth: Mexican think tank IMCO has argued that a large share of Anexo 13 resources fund programmes with limited transformative gender impact, and INMUJERES's own reporting acknowledges the gender perspective is applied 'partially, without a transversal approach throughout the [budget] cycle.'

Conclusions

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.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Very high (> €5M) — Ring-fenced total grew from 233,732 million pesos (2022, 3% of the federal budget) to 479,248.4 million pesos (2025) across 35 government branches.
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Annual federal budget annex since 2008, described by Fundar as Latin America's first such mechanism.
Staffing & skills
INMUJERES and Congress's Centro de Estudios de las Finanzas Publicas (CEFP) jointly track and publish the annex's allocations each budget cycle.

Conditions for success

  • A newly created Branch 54 'Women' introduced in the federal budget structure.

Common failure modes

  • IMCO found a large share of Anexo 13 resources fund programmes with limited transformative gender impact.
  • INMUJERES's own reporting acknowledges the gender perspective is applied 'partially, without a transversal approach throughout the budget cycle'.

Where it fits

Governance type
federal budget earmarking mechanism
Scale
national (35 branches)
Income level
upper-middle-income

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