Working Areas

1. Consensus

Building The unit on Consensus Building seeks to make the National Congress and provincial legislatures a sounding ground for societal debates in Argentina. To achieve this, we encourage the development of debates in the National Congress that cover topics of societal concern.

Consensus Building in the Agro-Industrial Sector

The Agro-Industrial Consensus proposes the development of conferences on the criteria and guidelines shared by diverse social actors and the Agro-Industrial production chains. The objectives are to encourage productive parliamentary debates and to generate new mechanisms of peaceful and respectful dialogue between policy makers and the productive sectors. The Document of Consensus—to which more than 500 institutions adhere—expresses essential agreements with respect to fundamental questions like: “Institutional Quality”, “Social Investment”, “Fiscal Framework”, “Regional Economies”, “Agricultural Production”, and “Livestock and Dairy Production”, among others. To learn more visit

Climate Change in the National Congress

As one of the most prominent challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, climate change is a topic the Argentine legislature needs to address. In conjunction with Cambio Democrático Foundation we sponsored the “Conference on Climate Change in the National Congress” which brought together legislators, consultants, specialists and representatives of civil society. This debate effectively established the topic of climate change in the national public agenda. To learn more visit

Renewable Energy in the National Congress

In conjunction with the Fundación Avina, Asociación Argentina de Energías Eólica (AAEE), the Cámara Argentina de Energías Renovables (CADER) and the Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial (INTI) we developed the “Cycle of Conferences on Renewable Energy in the National Congress”. The objective of this program is to promote legislative debate around renewable energy and its sustainable incorporation into the agenda of our country. To learn more visit

2. Collaboration and Impact in the Legislative Branch

This project proposes to strengthen the capacity of at least 65 civil society organizations to engage in collaborative work, as well as to design and implement strategic influence in the legislative branch with respect to agendas on the environment, gender issues, disabilities and health in the province of Buenos Aires and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. In this way we seek to actively reduce the existent divide between legislators and civil society. In some cases this divide is due to legislators’ unfamiliarity with the needs and interests of civil society organizations. In other cases it is due to the lack of information about the operation of governmental powers and/or the scarcity of resources of civil society organizations to make a strategic impact on the formulation of public policy. To learn more visit

Current Legislative Activity

Incorporating our profound understanding of the operation of the legislative branch and its members, we process the information emerging from that governmental body and have developed a periodic and reliable analysis on the initiatives that affect distinct sectors of society, including the private sector, civil society and state dependent organizations.

Legislative Reports

To compile legislative reports we meticulously monitor specific topics in the National Congress and the provincial legislatures. In addition we monitor transversal topics (taxes, labor, etc.) and topics of national debate (Law for the Media, currency reserves, retentions, etc). We process, systematize and publish this information in “Legislative Reports” as well as on our webpage and on the webpages of our social network in order to educate civil society. The topics we follow are:

  1. National Debates
  2. Natural Resources and the Environment
  3. Forestation and land holdings
  4. Agro (Meat, Seeds, Agriculture)
  5. Families, Women, and Minorities
  6. Human Rights
  7. Industrial and labor topics
  8. Taxes and social topics

Special Reports

In addition we study the operation of the legislative branch through history, as well as conduct evaluations and predictions. Our objective is to generate spaces for debate that achieve consensuses between distinct social actors.

Access to public information monitoring legislative debates

Directorio Legislativo propels the sanctioning of norms that regulate the right of access to public information, especially within the legislative branch. With this goal in mind we monitor discussions and sanctions on possible norms related to this right. We circulate up to date information on the advances and reversals of discussions concerning the passing of legislation in both chambers.

Seminars in Universities and educational establishments

We conduct seminars on the legislative branch for university students as well as public and private institutions. The program’s objectives are to increase understanding of both the operation of the National Congress and the promotion and defense of democracy.

3. Legislative Transparency

  1. The unit on Legislative Transparency seeks to generate good practices and access to information in the legislative branch. Our activities include:
  2. Precipitating internal reforms for a better and more transparent operation of the legislative branch.
  3. Disseminating information that generates greater transparency in Congress, sub-national legislatures, and deliberative councils.
  4. Promoting access to public information from Congress.
  5. Influencing legislative branches to actively implement transparency policies with the objective of becoming more accountable to the public.

The unit on Legislative Transparency also coordinates the Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency. The Network seeks to create and develop a network of civil society organizations in the region that promote transparency, access to information, and responsibility in the Latin American congresses. Their objective is to establish a regional agenda and plan of action in a collective manner. In this way the Network will increase the magnitude of the initiatives and good practices existent in each country, promote learning between countries, and increase the exchange of knowledge and information between organizations that work with the congresses.