Fundar, Centre for Analysis and Research is a independent, interdisciplinary, non-partisan and horizontal organization at the forefront in promoting substantive democracy. Fundar monitors public policies and institutions through applied research, critical reflection, experimentation and linkage with civil, social, governmental and intergovernmental agents.

The organization's guiding principles are:

• To widen and strengthen citizen participation.
• To demand transparency and accountability from governmental institutions.
• To contribute to the fulfilment of the rule of law.
• To promote substantive equality.
• To work for the respect of human rights.

Fundar was created in January 1999 by a group of leaders from different disciplines, with the objective of developing schemes for citizen participation, identify models of action that have been successful in other countries and experiment with new methodologies that can contribute to the resolution of specific social problems.

As of January 2003, the organization is composed of two areas:

• Budget area: monitoring of public spending. Such projects include the Latin American Index of Budget Transparency (an annual index evaluating the transparency of ten countries from the region in order to issue policy recommendations to their governments), monitoring of public spending with special enfasis on health, education and gender, Revenue Watch: tracking of oil income, and budgets and programs for HIV/AIDS in Africa and Latin America.
• Governance and Human Rights area. Includes the following projets: citizen surveillance of public human rights commissions, citizen mechanisms for monitoring public security institutions, and Metagora.

Each area is headed by a coordinator, and formed by several project managers, researchers and research assistants. Simultaneously, projects with an impact in both areas were identified and organized in a transversal manner, such as Legislative Watch and access to public information and transparency.

The Metagora activity of Fundar is a pilot survey focusing on all forms of ill-treatment of persons by police bodies, "Ministerio Publico" and jail personnel in the Federal District (Mexico City).