Last December, 1,055 high school communities around Mexico – comprising almost 1.3 million students – engaged in a transparency and accountability exercise. This involves each principal of public high schools completing three electronic forms covering more than 100 indicators. These range from income and expenditure, to enrolment and academic performance, to the condition of school equipment and infrastructure.

Mexico enacted its new transparency reform, this amendment to the constitution is a welcome change and will enhance the system through which people access public information. Access-to-information laws are vital for transparency and a key safeguard against corruption.

School councils serves as an instrument for Parents' Associations, through their Confederations and Federations, to inform and encourage parents to vote in school council elections and to stand as candidates for school councils.

An academic from the International School on Transparency in Integrity 2018 talks about the “Integrity Pacts Project”. It aims to increase civil society participation in public procurement. She also mentions the main challenge of this approach.