Mexico

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"

Ambulante Film Festival

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

Ambulante Film Festival uses documentary film as a tool for social and cultural change. Ambulante brings documentary films and training programs to places where they are rarely available in order to foster a cultural exchange, encourage a participative, informed and critical attitude in audiences, and open new channels of expression in Mexico and abroad. For the past 15 years they have been producing and showcasing stories about migrants, their families and communities.

National Institute of Migration

Submitted by Ms. Angelica Pinzon on

The National Institute of Migration is an administrative body, under the Ministry of the Interior of Mexico, which applies the Mexican laws and international treaties to grant all foreigners the necessary facilities to carry out legal, orderly and safe migration procedures that allow their entry and stay in the national territory. 

 

Banking on women

Submitted by Ms. Angelica Pinzon on

Across Latin America and the Caribbean, Banking on Women helps financial institutions offer women entrepreneurs financial and non-financial services such as advisory support. Through Banking on Women, IFC has supported female entrepreneurs with direct investments, mobilized investments, and advice through banks in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Mexico.

 

 

Comprehensive and Sustainable Strategy for the Protection and Integration of Migrants

Submitted by Ms. Angelica Pinzon on

Considering the need to guarantee the protection and integration of people in mobility contexts, Mexico proposes a “Comprehensive and Sustainable Strategy for the Protection and Integration of Migrants" through actions with differentiated criteria that facilitate their integration.

This Strategy has a mechanism for the monitoring and follow-up of actions and programs, in order to guarantee the protection and integration of this population.

The policy seeks to "make migrants active participants in economic, social and cultural life while protecting their cultural identity."

Providing regular pathways from crisis to safety - Mexico

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

The Law on Refugees, Complementary Protection and Political Asylum incorporates the concept of “complementary protection”. A person who does not comply with the criteria defined by such law to be recognized as a refugee, can be granted complementary protection to prevent their return to a country where their life could be in danger. Beneficiaries of complementary protection have a documented stay in the country, freedom of movement, access to gainful employment, as well as basic social rights.

Assessment to identify institutional competencies

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

In order to better deal with inclusion and integration, Mexico conducted an assessment to identify institutional competencies and attributions at different levels of government, analyze competences, identify the needs of institutions and migrants respectively, and streamline service provision across the country based on available resources for migrants’ care. The assessment enabled the Government to identify key partnerships based on the data collected through the assessment.

Evaluation and certification of middle skilled workers

Mexico has been implementing programs to evaluate and certify middle skilled workers for migrants with relatively lower levels of formal education but who have acquired significant and complex skills through on-the-job learning. Migrants that fit this profile include, for example, skilled construction workers, experienced garment manufacturers, workers in the high-end service and hospitality industry, and home-health care providers.

Mr. Camille Saadé

Mainstreaming the General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment

Submitted by Mr. Camille Saadé on

The ILO signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Fruit and Vegetable Alliance (AHIFORES) to carry out joint work on mainstreaming the General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment in Mexico. They inded to cooperate on the certification scheme "DEAR", as well as developing a tool box to address recruitment practices in horticulture and vegetable supply chains in partnership with Verité.

The Migrant Support Fund

Submitted by Ms. Charlotte … on

The Migrant Support Fund is a federal fund administered to states according to the size of their repatriated migrant populations, which provides migrants one-time seed grants of up to USD 1,500 to start a new business.

Because the Mexican labor market is saturated and often unfamiliar to returning migrants, especially those who have been abroad for an extended period, these entrepreneurial and self-employment opportunities offer a key path to their economic reintegration.

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