Official Name
United Mexican States
ISO2 Code
MX
ISO3 Code
MEX
Longitude
23 00 N
Latitude
102 00 W
Geolocation
POINT (-102 23)
Attended Meeting
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Increasing the micro-impact of remittances on development" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1 "Protecting the Rights of Migrants - A shared responsibility" 
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "Empowering migrants and diaspora to contribute to development" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Strengthening data and research tools on migration and development" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.2. "Engaging diasporas and migrants in development policies and programs - their roles? their constraints?" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.1. "Inclusion, protection, and acceptance of migrants in society - linking human rights and migrant empowerment for development" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Reintegration and circular migration - effective for development?" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Mexico hosted the GFMD 2010 
  • Team Member in RT 1.1. "Partnerships for more regular and protected migration" 
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "Joint strategies to address irregular migration" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.1. "Reducing the cost of migration and maximizing human development" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 2.2. "Migration, gender and family" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Assessing the impact of migration on the economic and social development and addressing its cause-effect relationship" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2. "Assessing the relevance and impact of climate change on migration and development" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.3. "How can RCPs and Inter-regional better include the migration and development means?" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation

No Participation

Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Co-Chair in Thematic Meeting on "Cooperation Strategies among States to Address Irregular Migration: Shared Responsibility to Promote Human Development" on 4-5 October 2011 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • USD 50,000 for Organizational expenses 
RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.1. "Improving public perceptions of migrants and migration" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.3. "Protecting migrant domestic workers - enhancing their development potential" 
Attended Summit
Financial Contribution
  • Mexico offered financial contributions to the GFMD 2013-2014 Budget. 
RT Participation
  • Co-Chair in RT 1.2. "Framing migration for the MDGs and the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Facilitating positive development impacts of diaspora engagement in skills transfer, investments and trade between countries of residence and origin" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.2. "Mirgants' social and financial remittances (asset tranfers) and their effects on health and education" 
Attended Prep Meetings
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Operationalizing Mainstreaming of Migration in Development Policy and Integrating Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda" on 22 May 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • USD 50,000 in November 2014 for Participation of developing countries from Africa 
  • USD 50,000 in October 2015 non-earnmarked 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1. "Partnerships to promote inclusion and protect the human rights of all migrants in order to achieve the full benefits of migration" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 2.2 "Making migration worok post-2015: implementing the SDGs" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended Thematic Meeting on "Recognizing the contributions of women migrants to economic and social development in countries of origin and destination and addressing their specific needs, particularly concerning respect for their human rights" on 8 September 2015 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Delegate
Financial Contribution
  • USD 50,000 for the Participation of African countries 
RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 2.1. "Migration, diversity and harmonious societies" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.2. "Protection of migrants in all situations" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Migrants in situations of crises: conflict, climate change and natural disasters" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.2. "Principles, institutions and processes for safe, orderly and regular migration" 
Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
- Attended the Thematic Workshop on "Migration, Connectivity and Business" on 29 March 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Attended the GFMD Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Peace, Stability and Growth" on 19 July 2016 in New York, United States.
Delegate
Financial Contribution

No Financial Contribution

RT Participation
  • Team Member in RT 1.1. "Tools and safeguards for policy coherence - finding the right policy mix to balance different interests and objectives" 
  • Team Member in RT 1.2. "From Global Agenda to Implementation - National Action Plans for migration-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" 
  • Team Member in RT 2.1. "Moving beyond emergencies - Creating development solutions to the mutual benefit of host and origin communities and displaced persons" 
  • Team Member in RT 3.1. "Raising the Global Talent Pool - Harnessing the Potential of the Private Sector for Global Skills Partnerships" 
  • Co-Chair in RT 3.2. "Strengthening cooperation - Enabling civil society contributions in migrant integration" 
Attended Summit
Delegate
Financial Contribution

USD 100,000 (non-earmarked)

RT Participation

Roundtable Co-Chair in RT 3.2 "Beyond Remittances: leveraging the development impact and promoting the transnational engagement of diaspora and migrants"

Government Team Member in Rt 2.2 "Regional mobility and policy coherence to support development" and RT 3.1 "Aligning governance with contemporary drivers of migration"

Attended Summit
Thematic Meetings
Participated in the Thematic Workshop on "Migration for Development: a roadmap to achieving the SDGs" and "Labour Migration and Skills"

Protecting Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Free Training Course for Migration Officers

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

Children are at the heart of human development. Migration can place unaccompanied children and adolescents in highly vulnerable situations. In order to better protect migrant children, Mexico has set up a specialized "Corps of Child Protection Officers" and developed a training module for migration officials dealing with child rights protection:

Capacity building of local governments in Santiago (Chile) and Mexico City to strengthen the socioeconomic integration of migrants and refugees through access to decent work, sustainable livelihoods, and social dialogue

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

This joint project seeks to improve migrant workers and refugees’ access to decent work and sustainable livelihoods by ensuring their employability, and access to employment opportunities and social protection programs implemented in Mexico City and Santiago. To that end, the project will design and support interventions that strengthen and articulate city services in both cities to provide an adequate response to populations on the move who are facing increased vulnerability. It will seek to create public-private synergies by engaging social actors and strengthening social dialogue.

Plan of Attention to Migrant Caravan with a humanitarian approach

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

As of January 2019, the Government of Mexico launched the Migrant Caravan Attention Plan, in which all federal agencies participate, under the direction of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection and the Ministry of the Interior, especially the INM and under the coordination of the National Coordination of Civil Protection (CNPC). The Plan, that has been implemented since the beginning of the new government, establishes interinstitutional actions to ensure a humanitarian approach to the arrival of migrants and to regulate their entry so that it is legal, orderly and safe.

Transferring knowledge on climate change and circular economy from the Mexican diaspora

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

EUDiF supported an action in Mexico that facilitated the transfer of knowledge between Mexico and Europe with diaspora academics as catalysts to co-develop a toolkit for citizen education on climate change and circular economy. 

RGMX-UK, the main beneficiary of the action, is the UK chapter of the Mexican Talent Network, and was created in 2010 by members of the Mexican diaspora living in the UK and with close links to academia. 

Facilitating Dual Nationality, Preventing Statelessness, and Promoting Inclusion for Foreign-Born Children and their Families in the State of Tlaxcala

Submitted by Ms. Anqi ZHANG on

The State of Tlaxcala commits to ensure effective access to the right to identify for individuals born abroad through the elimination of the requirement to present an apostilled foreign birth certificate in order to obtain dual nationality.

INFONAVIT Sin Fronteras ("Without borders")

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

The Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers (INFONAVIT) offers compatriots who live in the United States, who have a home in Mexico with Infonavit credit or wish to pay the Infonavit home loan of a family member or a third party , being able to make payments or amortizations directly in a safe and fast way through a branch of the remittance companies: Dolex, Maxi Transfer or Express Exchange. Infonavit pays the commissions for sending the money to Mexico.

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