"Mexico Recognizes Your Experience": Job Skills Certificate for Repatriated Migrants

In the context of return migration, Mexico also started to certify labour competencies, such as knowledge, abilities and skills, of Mexican returnees to facilitate their socio-economic reintegration.

A program to certify the job skills of repatriated migrants named "Mexico Recognizes Your Experience" was launched in June 2021. This initiative comes from the interinstitutional board created to assist returning Mexican families. It is comprised of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Interior (Segob), Education (SEP) and Labor and Social Welfare (STyPS), and the heads of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME), the Collaboration Agreement between the National Council for Standardization and Certification of Job Skills (Conocer) and the National Migration Institute (INM).

The job skills certificate will allow Mexicans who decide to start the certification process for the skills they learned in the United States to join the workforce.

The "Mexico recognizes your experience" program will become part of the INM's migrant repatriation modules. It will also be promoted in Mexico's consulates in the United States. In this way, the Mexican Foreign Ministry, in collaboration with the SEP, is improving the well-being of Mexican communities abroad and of those who return.

https://www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/mexico-recognizes-your-experience-job-skills-certificate-for-repatriated-migrants 

GFMD Focused Input to the 2021 HLPF