LigaLab

What LigaLab does

LigaLab Ideas que Unen A.C. is a Mexican non-profit civil association (Asociación Civil) founded in 2014 and headquartered in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, with a small team (6 employees, ~11 named contributors) led by Director Carmen Villa. The organization operates four core service lines — Capacity Building and Training, Public Policy Advocacy, Methodologies for Social Transformation, and Research and Data for Social Change — delivered through programs including the British Council Climate Skills Escuelas Verdes initiative, the Observatorio Ciudadano Chiapas (citizen security data monitoring since 2016), LabCívico anti-corruption advocacy, the multi-state Laboratorio Anticorrupción (Chiapas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Quintana Roo), and community projects such as Río Sabinal and Tequios y Telares. Underlying 'technology' consists of participatory civic methodologies codified in open toolkits like the Manual Nä Mutä (climate skills facilitator guide) and the Protocolo Acoso Callejero, combined with civic data analysis and data visualization outputs (quarterly and annual crime/security reports, diagnostics). The business model is project-based grant funding from international agencies (British Council, UNDP, GIZ), anti-corruption partners (Transparencia Mexicana), and contracted services for state/municipal governments in Mexico; there are no disclosed commercial pricing structures, and revenue is not publicly reported.

Name

LigaLab

Legal name

LIGALAB IDEAS QUE UNEN A.C.

Website

https://ligalab.mx

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

LigaLab Ideas que Unen A.C. is a Mexican civil association founded in 2014 in Chiapas that delivers capacity building, public policy advocacy, participatory methodologies, and civic data research for civil society organizations, youth, and state/municipal governments across Mexico.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Society Services

NAICS

Civic and Social Organizations (813410), Professional Organizations (81392), Political Organizations (81394)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Intergovernmental Education Cooperation & Bilateral/Multilateral Programs (EDADALAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption (ABAC) (EDABADAA), Environment, Climate & Sustainable Development IGOs (BPADAAAI), Development Cooperation & Foreign Aid Administration (BPAIAIAG)

Keywords

• Civil society services
• Public policy advocacy
• Citizen participation programs
• Capacity building training
• Climate skills education

Headquarters

HQ city

Tuxtla Gutiérrez

HQ country

Mexico

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Grant funding and project-based contracts: LigaLab operates as a non-profit civil association (Asociación Civil) funded primarily through grants from international organizations (British Council, UNDP), government contracts, and project-based funding from civil society initiatives.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

LigaLab is a Mexican nonprofit civil association (Asociación Civil) that delivers capacity building, public policy advocacy, participatory methodologies, and social research services to civil society organizations, government institutions, and communities in Chiapas. Its work is organized around three pillars — citizen participation, civil society strengthening, and public policy advocacy — and is delivered through programs such as the British Council Climate Skills / Escuelas Verdes, the Observatorio Ciudadano Chiapas, LabCívico anti-corruption initiatives, the Anticorruption Laboratory, Río Sabinal, Tequios y Telares, and toolkits like the Manual Nä Mutä. Revenue comes primarily from grants and project-based contracts with international and government partners rather than commercial sales.

Product overview

LigaLab is a Mexican civil society organization (Asociación Civil) founded in 2014 that operates as a service-based nonprofit rather than a software product company. The organization offers four core service areas: (1) Capacitación y Fortalecimiento (Capacity Building and Training), (2) Incidencia y políticas públicas (Advocacy and Public Policy), (3) Metodologías para la transformación social (Methodologies for Social Transformation), and (4) Investigación y datos para el cambio social (Research and Data for Social Change). These services are delivered through various programs and projects including the British Council Climate Skills Program (Escuelas Verdes), the Citizen Observatory of Chiapas, LabCívico anti-corruption initiatives, and community projects like Río Sabinal and Tequios y Telares. The organization also produces toolkits and resources such as the Manual Nä Mutä climate facilitation guide and publishes reports and infographics on crime statistics, gender violence, and public policy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Capacitación y Fortalecimiento (Capacity Building and Training) Organizational capacity building service using formative processes with innovative and agile methodologies. Identifies opportunities and co-creates sustainable solutions for collectives, civil society organizations, and institutions.
• Incidencia y políticas públicas (Advocacy and Public Policy) Design and accompaniment of advocacy plans from a citizen perspective, generating inputs for the design, implementation, and evaluation of public policies for institutions.
• Metodologías para la transformación social (Methodologies for Social Transformation) Design and facilitation of tools and processes to identify complex problems and create solutions from a local and collective perspective, with innovative, creative, and playful approaches.
• Investigación y datos para el cambio social (Research and Data for Social Change) Transforms information into action through diagnostics and data visualization that enable evidence-based decision-making to drive solutions for social challenges.
• British Council Climate Skills Program (Escuelas Verdes) A climate skills program implemented by LigaLab under the British Council's HSBC Global Climate Skills initiative, featuring the 'Escuelas Verdes' (Green Schools) model that builds capacities of youth and communities to address climate crisis from their territories.
• Manual Nä Mutä para la facilitación de Escuelas Verdes de habilidades para el cambio climático A facilitator manual for Green Schools of Climate Change Skills providing a participatory and replicable methodology for youth, organizations, and communities to self-manage training processes, build collective diagnostics, and develop climate advocacy plans.
• Observatorio Ciudadano Chiapas A citizen observatory initiative (2016-2019) that strengthened organized civil society in conjunction with the Attorney General's Office of Chiapas as co-responsible actors in building rule of law, democracy strengthening, transparency, and governance in Mexico through monitoring and public reporting of citizen security indicators.
• LabCívico - Rendición de Cuentas y Combate a la Corrupción en Chiapas An advocacy strategy (2019) aimed at generating and strengthening an alliance between citizens, civil organizations, and government institutions to function as a political counterweight for the State Anti-Corruption System to effectively combat corruption in Chiapas.
• Laboratorio Anticorrupción para la defensa de los derechos de las mujeres An institutional strengthening process (2021) that enabled State Anti-Corruption Systems in Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Quintana Roo to design and adopt corruption control measures with a gender perspective and human rights approach.
• Protocolo básico de actuación para intervenir en casos de acoso sexual callejero A basic action protocol developed to intervene in cases of street sexual harassment to contribute to creating a violence-free environment by improving civil society response and modifying discriminatory practices.
• Río Sabinal collaborative process An eight-month collaborative process engaging over 40 actors including universities, government, collectives, and neighbors to construct a shared diagnosis and roadmap for the renewal of the Sabinal River in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, with documented outputs including 25 prioritized pedestrian crossings.
• Datos&Pox community event An event (2024) that brings together the community working on open data topics to meet projects and people, inspired by the Datacivica 'datos y mezcal' exercise.
• Photovoice FotoVoz A program (2018) that uses photography and storytelling to help communities identify their strengths and challenges, creating positive social change.
• Tequios y Telares A participatory initiative focused on safe public transportation in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, featuring dialogue among women users, mobility experts, and decision-makers to build safe, inclusive public transport.
• Fondo para la participación social en la construcción de sistemas de contratación pública abiertos, incluyentes y sustentables A project funded by Transparencia Mexicana that integrates five transformative initiatives into the State Development Plan of Chiapas 2024-2030, aiming to reorient public resource use toward sustainability, transparency, and social inclusion criteria in public contracting systems.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1,100 people trained in Climate Skills across 5 municipalities
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• British CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership for Climate Skills program implementing Green Schools of Skills for Climate Change in Chiapas. British Council's HSBC Global Climate Skills program, with LigaLab as implementing partner.
• Observatorio Nacional de Seguridad, Justicia y Legalidad A.C. (ONC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInitiated the Observatorio Ciudadano Chiapas project, with LigaLab as implementing partner for citizen security monitoring.
• FEC (Fondo para la Educación y la Cultura)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partner in Río Sabinal project and other initiatives in Chiapas.
• Transparency MexicanamajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in anti-corruption initiatives and the Fondo para la participación social project for public contracting systems.
• British CouncilmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerClimate Skills program partner - implementing Green Schools methodology in Chiapas.
• INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration for INEGI para principiantes workshop - data literacy training for civil society.
• GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational development cooperation partner for various projects in Mexico.
• Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (UNACH)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerState university alliance for Río Sabinal project and other academic collaborations.
• Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de ChiapasminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner in collaborative projects and initiatives.
• SocialTicminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTechnology for social change organization - ally in digital tools and social media strategies.
• 100EN1DIAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational network for citizen action - partner in urban transformation events.
• Red Nacional de ObservatoriosminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational network of citizen observatories for security and justice monitoring.
• Sistemas Estatales Anticorrupción (Guanajuato, Jalisco, Quintana Roo)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner institutions for the Anticorruption Laboratory for women's rights defense, implementing corruption control measures.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Red por los Derechos de la Infancia en México (REDIM): Mexican civil society coalition on children's rights and civic participation; partially comparable to LigaLab's youth-focused, rights-based citizen participation work, though more specialized on child advocacy.

Direct peers

• PODER (Proyecto sobre Organización, Desarrollo, Educación e Investigación): Latin American civil society organization focused on corporate accountability and civic participation in Mexico and the region — directly comparable in combining research, advocacy, and citizen engagement methodologies.
• Observatorio Nacional de Seguridad, Justicia y Legalidad A.C. (ONC): National citizen observatory network; LigaLab's Observatorio Ciudadano Chiapas is an implementing partner of ONC. Highly comparable as a citizen-security data and advocacy organization working in the same thematic space.
• Data Cívica: Mexican civil society organization using data, research, and civic technology for accountability and transparency — directly comparable to LigaLab in combining civic-data work with advocacy, and explicitly similar in publishing civic data products and reports.
• Fundar (Centro de Análisis e Investigación): Mexican civil society research and advocacy organization focused on accountability, human rights, and public policy — closely aligned with LigaLab's public policy advocacy, citizen participation, and institutional strengthening pillars.
• Transparencia Mexicana: Mexican chapter of Transparency International and an active funder/partner of LigaLab (Fondo project). Highly comparable as a civil society organization working on anti-corruption, transparency, and public policy advocacy in Mexico.
• IMCO (Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad): Mexican civil society think tank producing data-driven research and policy proposals on governance, public spending, and accountability — directly comparable to LigaLab's evidence-based advocacy and public-policy work.
• GESOC (Gestión Social y Cooperación): Mexican civil society organization working on social accountability, citizen participation, and public policy monitoring — closely comparable to LigaLab's citizen observatory and anti-corruption work.
• SocialTic: Mexico-based civil society organization using technology for social change; LigaLab lists SocialTic as an ally. Directly comparable as a CSO blending digital tools, civic participation, and capacity building for social impact.

Broad incumbents

• OXFAM México: Large international NGO operating in Mexico with programs on inequality, gender, and governance — comparable as a broader incumbent civil society actor working on citizen participation and policy advocacy in Mexico, with greater scale and resources than LigaLab.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ObservatorioCCh
• Facebookfacebook.com/LigalabMx
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ligalab
• Instagraminstagram.com/ligalabmx

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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